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Vijay Pande, who spent years overseeing roughly four billion dollars in biotech investments at Andreessen Horowitz, has stepped back to run a far smaller, AI-native fund called VZVC. His argument is compelling: biology is finally moving from a science of discovery to one of engineering, and the datasets that will make that leap possible need to be open and shared, not locked away behind corporate walls.
On the surveillance front, Senator Bernie Sanders is pushing legislation to rein in Flock Safety, a company operating more than one hundred twenty thousand AI-powered cameras across the United States. Sanders is calling it a march toward a surveillance state, and notably, the pushback is coming from both sides of the aisle, suggesting this debate has real political legs heading into the next legislative session.
And in a quieter but genuinely interesting corner of tech, a project called AI Political Compass is making the rounds on Hacker News. It attempts to map large language models onto a political spectrum, raising honest questions about how the values baked into training data shape the outputs millions of people now rely on for information and advice.
Those are the stories worth watching today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
