Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla told TechCrunch he is backing Wajo, a personal AI agent startup founded by former Google and DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar, arguing it is more trustworthy than rivals like Meta's Muse and Instinct. Wajo's agent, called Fo, works across iMessage and WhatsApp, organizes tasks into categories such as scheduling and gifting, can call businesses on a user's behalf, hire humans for tasks, and issue a virtual credit card to make payments without revealing personal details.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-06
Mazama Energy closed an oversubscribed $135 million Series B round led by Centaurus Capital and Doerr Capital, with Vinod Khosla among earlier backers. The funds will support horizontal drilling into super-hot rock formations in Oregon, where each well could generate up to 15 megawatts, and the company now estimates the site could ultimately yield 10 gigawatts of power, double last year's projection.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-18
A paper published in JAMA this month, authored by bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, argues that AI is already surpassing physicians at core clinical tasks like gathering patient information, diagnosing conditions, and managing chronic disease, and predicts fully AI-run care will soon beat human-only or hybrid care. American Medical Association CEO John Whyte pushed back, telling Wired that many cited studies relied on simulations rather than blinded trials and that contradictory evidence, including a Nature study on patients struggling to use chatbots, undermines the paper's conclusions.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-04
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