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Dealmaker

Lux Capital’s Big Warning

By Katie Roof · Mar 3, 2026 4:34pm PST · 2 comments
A venture firm just said the quiet part out loud: Things aren’t as copacetic in startup land as those sky-high AI valuations would suggest. Lux Capital on Tuesday published a letter it had sent to founders it has funded, urging them to prepare for a slew of business risks. The venture capital firm, which has backed Anduril and Ramp,... A venture firm just said the quiet part out loud: Things aren’t as copacetic in startup land as...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (left) and Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering), Emil Michael at the Pentagon in July. Win McNamee/Getty Images.
AI Agenda

The OpenAI and Anthropic Execs at the Center of the Pentagon Action

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Mar 3, 2026 7:00am PST · 1 comment
OpenAI was on the backfoot on Monday. Current and former OpenAI employees took to social media to share concerns about their employer signing an agreement with the Pentagon that seemed to accept at least some terms Anthropic had rejected. A surge in people uninstalling the ChatGPT app from their phones over the weekend, according to TechCrunch,... OpenAI was on the backfoot on Monday. Current and former OpenAI employees took to social media to...
What Anthropic Stands to Gain From Pentagon Stance
The Briefing

What Anthropic Stands to Gain From Pentagon Stance

By Martin Peers · Mar 2, 2026 5:05pm PST
Could fighting with the Pentagon be the best thing that ever happened to Anthropic? On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” looked like it could pose an existential threat to the AI firm. Not only could it lose customers, but, depending on how broadly the designation is interpreted, it could... Could fighting with the Pentagon be the best thing that ever happened to Anthropic? On Friday,...
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Dealmaker

Venture Capital’s Showing in the Epstein Files

By Laura Mandaro · Feb 3, 2026 6:16pm PST
On Monday, our reporter Jemima McEvoy broke the news that venture capitalist Masha Bucher had deep ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Their correspondence, released in a dump of more than 3 million pages from the Justice Department Friday, showed Bucher—née Drokova, the name she was using at the time—working as a publicist for... On Monday, our reporter Jemima McEvoy broke the news that venture capitalist Masha Bucher had...
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Epstein Files Reveal Deep Relationship With Venture Capitalist Masha Bucher

By Jemima McEvoy · Feb 2, 2026 1:10pm PST · 10 comments
There are plenty of tech luminaries whose correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in the files of the disgraced financier. But few of those exchanges are quite like those that Epstein had with Masha Bucher, who is now a well-known venture capitalist. On June 25, 2019, 11 days before Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking... There are plenty of tech luminaries whose correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in...