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Summer for venture capitalists used to be a time when dealmaking slowed down, as investors headed to the Italian Riviera or shifted their podcast recordings to a boat on Lake Tahoe. But that wasn’t the case last year, and it certainly isn’t shaping to be this year, either.Google challenger Perplexity is in the middle of raising $500 million—or more—in a deal that would value it at $14 billion. Anthropic and the startup behind Cursor are reporting jumps in annualized revenue, which could attract more investo
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Flying taxis near reality thanks to an unexpected boost from Toyota• The Top 5: A tech mogul’s guide to summer fashion, Sun Valley style • Plus, our Recommendations: “Flesh and Code,” “The CIA Book Club” and “Su Majestad.”Silicon Valley has many flaws. A prominent one: an industrywide aversion to good, catchy names. Too many lowercase letters. Too few vowels. Sometimes a name... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company’s artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software. Doing so would have shown Apple’s technical progress in AI while also harnessing the help of outside researchers to improve the models. Still, it also would have revealed to the public how dramatically the performance of the models dropped when Apple shrunk them to fit on iPhones, compared... Read more ›
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Cursor has restricted China-based users from accessing U.S. models offered by its coding assistant software, such as Claude-4-Sonnet and Gemini-2.5-Pro, according to three users. These users received notifications stating that these models had become unavailable due to location-based ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has hired three more artificial intelligence researchers from Google DeepMind as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his aggressive efforts to recover from stumbles earlier this year with an unprecedented AI recruiting push. The latest hires—Tianhe Yu, Cosmo Du and Weiyue Wang—worked on a version of Google’s Gemini model that the search giant this week said had solved problems in this year’s International Math Olympiad at a level that... Read more ›
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We’ve written a lot lately about the hefty stock packages companies like Meta Platforms, OpenAI and others are dishing out to recruit artificial intelligence researchers. Outside AI, many private company CEOs are also recalibrating how they use shares to keep and reward people. Take, for instance, Armis. The nine-year-old cybersecurity startup has recently completed a $100 million buyback of shares held by current employees, funded by new and existing investors,... Read more ›
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The crypto industry today scored its biggest win in Congress with the passage in the House of Representatives of the Genius Act. The bill, which the Senate cleared last month, legitimizes and regulates stablecoins, crypto tokens pegged to the U.S. dollar. President Donald Trump is expected to sign it quickly. It’s a moment of rejoicing for crypto, which has bounced back from an excruciating downturn and regulatory crackdown under President... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with other current and former directors and executives at the company, on Thursday agreed to settle a shareholder lawsuit that had accused them of allowing repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware ... Read more ›
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What do you get when you mix plenty of the world’s most powerful capitalists with a sleepaway camp setup in Idaho? Well, for years, the Sun Valley Conference, hosted by Allen & Co., the ultrasecretive investment bank, was a place to hobnob and perhaps strike a deal. It’s something else now: an honest-to-goodness fashion event, with more and more attendees clearly putting considerable effort into what they put on each... Read more ›
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Imagine buying a house from someone who refused to show you the interior. The roof might be leaking, but the sellers don’t want you to know. That’s what it’s like buying shares in many of the biggest tech companies, which refuse to disclose key details about their business. More strikingly, many of these companies—such as Netflix and Apple—steadily reduce what they disclose as they mature. The only conclusion: They don’t... Read more ›
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