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OMG! What a day we had in Hollywood on Tuesday at The Information’s Future of Influence event. I loved meeting new readers, seeing familiar faces and hearing from our fabulous lineup of speakers including creators Adam W and Victoria Garrick Browne and executives from Meta Platforms, YouTube, Spotify and Substack. A big thank you to everyone who traveled from near and far (including Brazil and Germany!) to spend the afternoon with us. If you have any feedback on the event, we’d love to hear from you.
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Typepad, a blogging service that launched in the same year as WordPress, has announced that it's shutting down on September 30. "We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad," its team said in a post. Several major publications used it as a backend for their websites in its early years, and it even released an app in 2008, but it soon fell behind WordPress in popularity. The service stopped... Read more ›
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An accident report has revealed that a U.S. Air Force pilot spent 50 minutes on a conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers ahead of his plane plummeting to the ground and exploding in a fireball. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: German banks blocked PayPal payments totalling more than 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) over fraud concerns, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Wednesday, without specifying its sources. The payments were halted on Monday after lenders flagged millions of suspicious direct debits from PayPal that appeared last week, the newspaper said. Asked to comment on the report, a PayPal spokesperson said a temporary service interruption... Read more ›
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Botswana has been getting a lot of calls lately from across the African continent, prodding the nation — once “at risk of extinction” from HIV — to tell the world how they did the impossible: squash childhood HIV rates. The number of children living with HIV has declined sharply everywhere, but nowhere more so than […] Read more ›
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An iPhone 17 announcement is a dead cert for September 2025 – Apple has already sent out invites for an "Awe dropping" event on Tuesday, September 9 at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. The timing follows Apple's trend of introducing new iPhone models annually in the fall. At the event, Apple is expected to unveil its new-generation iPhone 17, an all-new ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air, and high-end iPhone... Read more ›
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Epic CEO Time Sweeney has blamed developers for issues with games made in Unreal Engine 5, stating the "main cause is the order of development". Read more Read more ›
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The AirPods Pro 3 will feature a slightly smaller charging case and a capacitive pairing button, according to the leaker known as Majin Bu. Citing discussions with a prominent accessory manufacturer, the leaker says that the charging case of the AirPods Pro 3 could be slightly smaller than that of the current model, but will otherwise will be "almost identical" with no major changes. Other reports similarly indicate that the... Read more ›
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A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses. Read more ›
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Everyone in education, from K-12 teachers to university presidents, is well aware that AI is transforming the classroom. That presents all the challenges you’ve probably already heard of: students using ChatGPT to cheat, churning out papers and assignments without a second thought. But there’s also the more underreported development — teachers are deploying the technology to write […] Read more ›
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Apple has warned that UK users could face delayed product features if the country's regulators proceed with "EU-style rules" that seek to make it easier for smaller firms to compete with big tech companies. Apple told the BBC that proposed regulations from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) "are bad for users and bad for developers," and pointed to the European Union's Digital Markets Act, which it says has already... Read more ›
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Streaming services keep raising prices. At this point, if you subscribe to all the major services out there, you're basically paying the same price as cable — those antiquated local monopolies that streaming was supposed to save us from. But streaming still has one big advantage over the old ways: no contracts. That means you can grab a good streaming deal and then cancel without penalty. Our advice is to... Read more ›
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As of Aug. 26, get the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 gaming monitor for its lowest price yet. Grab it for $700 off at Amazon. Read more ›
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Crusoe, the developer behind OpenAI’s first Stargate data center, is discussing raising funds at a $10 billion valuation—more than three times its valuation less than a year ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising talks. The seven-year-old company wants to raise at least $1 billion to fulfill its ambitions to become a more formidable player in cloud computing, which will require it to buy more artificial... Read more ›
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Where does Snap go from here? The nearly fourteen-year-old company is struggling to grow its ad business, particularly compared to larger Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube. At the same time, CEO Evan Spiegel remains laser focused on his long-time, big bet: the company’s augmented reality glasses, Spectacles. To keep funding the AR project, Snapchat parent has begun to discuss ways to raise outside money and even has considered spinning it... Read more ›
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If there’s one thing the artificial intelligence industry hasn’t been lacking in recently, it’s news. So on Wednesday’s episode of TITV, our editor-in-chief Jessica Lessin asked Bret Taylor, CEO of customer-support agent firm Sierra, and Winston Weinberg, CEO of legal agent startup Harvey, for their thoughts on recent developments ranging from OpenAI’s rocky GPT-5 release to the rising costs that businesses face when purchasing agents and other advanced AI.Taylor has... Read more ›
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Rent the Runway CEO and cofounder Jennifer Hyman is turning over control of the clothing-rental firm to its longtime lender and a group of other investors, the company said Thursday. In exchange, the company is cutting its heavy debt load. Shares rose around 9% in morning trading following the ... Read more ›
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Our Wednesday story about rising costs of businesses that pay for advanced artificial intelligence from OpenAI and Anthropic stirred strong reactions from readers. OpenAI researcher Aidan McLaughlin wondered aloud where we had gotten the idea that state-of-the-art AI was supposed to get cheaper. The answer: his boss, Sam Altman. OpenAI’s CEO said last month at a conference hosted by the Federal Reserve that “it does in fact look like we’re... Read more ›
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Disney’s ESPN has launched its highly-anticipated new streaming service, which features all of the live and on-demand programming the sports media giant has to offer. This includes the ability to stream ESPN’s cable TV channels, as well as documentaries and studio programming produced by ESPN. ... Read more ›
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Two out of three subscribers to The Information who responded to a survey have taken a ride in a self-driving car—and nearly 99% of riders were satisfied with the experience. The survey results are the latest confirmation that after years of development and testing, self-driving cars are finally revving up. Read more ›
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TikTok Shop, the short-form video app’s e-commerce platform, made a big splash nearly two years ago when it first launched in the U.S. Even though it’s reduced the initial deep discounts for shoppers and sellers, quieting some of the initial buzz over the service, some startups are still betting TikTok’s social shopping features will grow.One is Conduit Commerce, which is coming out of stealth this week and recently acquired the... Read more ›
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Anthropic is in talks to raise as much as $10 billion, double the amount it was previously seeking, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The company has been in fundraising discussions with investors for raising at a $170 billion valuation, up from a $58 billion-valued ... Read more ›
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As it tries to unseat Google, OpenAI is relying on search data from an unlikely source: Google. OpenAI has been using Google search results scraped from the web to help power ChatGPT responses, according to two people with knowledge of it. Read more ›
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