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The venture firm that spent eight years telling the world crypto would eat finance just took the word off its door.On 22 October, Andreessen Horowitz announced that a16z Crypto is now a16z Frontier, and that its $2.2 billion fifth fund will also back artificial intelligence, autonomous machines and other “frontier” technologies. The firm insists it…

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Traditional text chatbots solved some basic routing problems, but they completely missed the fundamental human preference for natural speech. Users want to talk through complex issues rather than type paragraphs into a tiny screen widget. That operational friction explains why modern brands are rapidly abandoning basic scripts for conversational systems.

Facebook parent company Meta—which lost over $83 billion since 2021 trying to convince people the metaverse was the next internet frontier—has finally burned enough cash to catch up with the AI frontier, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday.