Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more (George Hammond/Financial Times)

George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more — The technologist and investor argues recent progress in AI is an industrial revolution-scale event but warns the ability …

2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and more (Stanford HAI)
For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive (Andy Kemp/Gallup)
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as 800B in recent weeks; it was valued at 380B in February (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-16

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