Silicon Valley is building its own news-industrial complex

Marc Andreessen on MTS. Screenshot via XSilicon Valley's most powerful venture firm helped launch a 24/7 livestream on X Monday, joining a wave of tech money piling into the news cycle as the internet's hottest new asset class.Why it matters: "Monitoring the situation" — the theme of Polymarket's pop-up D.C. bar, and now the name of a new show (MTS) funded by Andreessen Horowitz — has become one of the most viral and lucrative memes in tech.The phenomenon sprouted from Elon Musk's X, a platform...