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Podcasting is booming, driven by the rise of video shows and podcasters’ sway during last year’s presidential election. That’s got me thinking about whether podcasting has become too saturated. It’s a question I posed to our podcasting panel at The Information’s Future of Influence event last week in Los Angeles. Spotify doesn’t think so. The company saw a “massive, massive reacceleration” in podcasts last year, while this year is “growing faster than a lot of the years before,” according to Roman Wasenmüll
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Since former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election, the Democratic Party has been in a panic over how it can win back more voters. Ideas have so far included Democratic officials going on podcasts, finding their own Joe Rogan, and growing facial hair. But when it comes to actual issues Democratic voters […] Read more ›
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Xbox Game Pass made Microsoft almost $5bn in annual revenue last year, proving the company is in a healthy state despite last month's shock layoffs. Read more Read more ›
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Kunal Nayyar is known for being on "The Big Bang Theory," but he also founded IQ121 after his own struggles keeping track of important documents. Read more ›
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Last year, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S24 FE in September and released it in October, but the timeline will be different for its successor. Samsung has now confirmed that the Galaxy S25 FE will launch earlier in the year than its predecessor did. Unfortunately, the company hasn't given us a specific date or even a launch month to think of. Samsung Galaxy S24 FE So we have to assume that... Read more ›
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Here's a step-by-step guide to using the Heroic Game Launcher to play your Epic Games Store library on a Steam Deck. Read more ›
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Developers are growing increasingly frustrated with AI coding tools that produce deceptively flawed solutions, according to Stack Overflow's latest survey of over 49,000 programmers worldwide. The 2025 survey exposes a widening gap between AI adoption and satisfaction: while 84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools, their trust has cratered. Only 33% trust AI accuracy today, down from 43% last year. The core problem isn't broken code... Read more ›
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Honor is expected to launch its Magic V Flip 2 soon, and a new rumor from China suggests it will launch in August. As per the tip, Honor will redesign the external display with its dual cameras now housed in identically sized cutouts. For reference, last year’s Magic V Flip sported vertically aligned camera cutouts with the primary 50MP sensor housed inside a larger cutout than the 12MP ultrawide lens.... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has named Shengjia Zhao as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs, its new artificial intelligence organization, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads on Friday. “Shengjia will set the research agenda and scientific direction for our new lab working directly ... Read more ›
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Groq, a richly funded chip startup trying to take on Nvidia, told investors early this year it was on track to have more than $2 billion in revenue for 2025. Within the past month, the number it gave to investors has fallen to more than $500 million, according to documents viewed by The Information. Groq’s $2 billion projection came around the time it inked a $1.5 billion deal with Saudi... Read more ›
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Venture capital firms are under pressure to make rapid-fire decisions about big checks in the frenzied world of artificial intelligence investing, straining partnerships that need a unified front. It helps sometimes to have just one decision-maker.That makes a case for Elad Gil, a prolific investor who made early investments in Perplexity, Harvey, Stripe and Airbnb. Gil is raising a fund of around $1.5 billion to back both young and mature... Read more ›
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Fireworks AI, a three-year-old startup that rents out Nvidia chip servers to developers that use artificial intelligence models, is in talks to raise funding at a $4 billion valuation in a round led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners and Index Ventures, The Information reported. A ... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley royalty are set to be the big winners from Figma’s initial public offering this week. Former Meta and Google executive Sheryl Sandberg, former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and venture capital firms Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins are all turning modest investments into windfalls ranging from tens of millions to more than $1 billion. Sandberg and Weiner were among the participants in Figma’s seed round, via a roughly $1.5... Read more ›
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GPT-5 is almost here, and we’re hearing good things. The early reaction from at least one person who’s used the unreleased version was extremely positive.That’s good news for OpenAI. The ChatGPT creator has been under pressure to show major gains from its next big artificial intelligence model since we first broke the news last November that it had seen diminishing returns from using more computational resources and data during “pretraining.”... Read more ›
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As TikTok’s future in the U.S. continues to be in limbo, the company is trying to quell a different regulatory threat north of the border.In November, the Canadian government told TikTok to wind down its operations in the country due to national security concerns, but curiously has allowed the app to remain available to the 14 million users in the country. The order means TikTok has to shut down its... Read more ›
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Amazon is taking steps to keep other companies’ artificial intelligence shopping tools from swarming its e-commerce site. In recent weeks, Amazon updated the code underpinning its website to add language warding off new AI agents from Google. These changes follow restrictions Amazon added earlier this year calling out bots from Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Read more ›
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Nearly everywhere I look, I’m seeing signs of how artificial intelligence is shaking up the way we engage online, from shopping to social media. OpenAI is reportedly working on a new checkout feature, betting that more consumers will turn to chatbots like its ChatGPT to find and purchase products. At the same time, I’m seeing an influx of realistic AI videos on my social media feeds, while a new generation... Read more ›
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The NFL and ESPN are nearing a deal for the league to take a 10% stake in the Disney-owned sports media company, according to a report from CNBC. The terms could include ESPN taking ownership of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, two cable channels owned by the league. ESPN and the NFL have been ... Read more ›
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