https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/a16z/Recent content in A16z on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:45:45 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-02-founders/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:45:45 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-02-founders/Fintech’s “death” is a rebrand: 70‑80% of new funding now backs AI‑first, token‑driven finance, forcing engineers to adopt unified token architectures. Andreessen Horowitz’s State of Markets II shows tech earnings now drive 76% of S&amp;P 500 growth, with capital shifting to hardware for AI. Aurora PostgreSQL can query Iceberg and Parquet directly via an embedded DuckDB engine, erasing the ETL gap between OLTP and data lakes. Meanwhile Cloudflare opens a waitlist for a fully managed Cloudflare OS, letting teams run autonomous agents without self‑hosting. Smaller notes cover Mercury’s anti‑AI‑writing policy, hiring breakpoints, Firecrawl’s autonomous web agent, Ando’s Slack‑killer seed, and investor overlap in coding‑AI startups.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-founders/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:31:35 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-founders/Apple will replace the Core Technology Fee with a 5% Core Technology Commission on out-of-App Store transactions in the EU starting October 1, and for the first time a single app can mix Apple IAP with alternative payments. a16z argues the next generation of category-defining companies will come from &ldquo;Borderless Founders&rdquo; who run networks in both their home country and Silicon Valley. Linear Agent now sets up, runs, and browser-tests code, billing at provider rates plus $0.25 per 20-minute sandbox block. Slack ships Code Channels so non-technical staff can watch agents ship work.