Ben Horowitz

Microsoft won a DoD cloud contract potentially worth up to $10B, followed by a wave of funding rounds across biotech, quantum, fintech and media, plus regulatory and exit notes including AB5 debates and Barneys’ sale.

Uber backs ex-CEO Travis Kalanick’s new Atoms with $1.7B (Uber reportedly $100M of that), led by Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz on the board, to pursue industrial AI and autonomy via Pronto, signaling continued capital rotation into mobility robotics despite past Uber-levandowski tensions.

Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raises $1.7B in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber participating and Ben Horowitz joining the board; Atoms is presented as a rebranded holding company atop CloudKitchens/Pronto, pursuing an industrial AI/robotics agenda with little disclosed product detail.