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When people ask me what I've learned about leadership from reporting on tech companies for 20 years, I always say the same thing: that the most successful CEOs are more pragmatic than zealous. Tech CEOs are notorious for using visionary language and tying it to their personal beliefs about improving the world. They brandish mission statements about organizing all the world’s information and make us believe that their products are going to revolutionize the world for the benefit of humankind.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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We just published our list of more than 160 enterprise software startups that could be acquired this year. To compile it, we screened hundreds of privately held companies and singled out those worth more than $1 billion that haven't raised a publicly announced financing since June 2024. To understand the M&A forces across enterprise software, I spoke with more than 30 founders, investors, and bankers. The list has nearly doubled... Read more ›
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OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT's teen safety features with age prediction, break reminders, and stronger parental controls, while defending why teens deserve AI access at all. Read more ›
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Venture capital continues to reward startups building the infrastructure behind AI, automation, cybersecurity, and enterprise software. The last 12 hours of startup financing did not look like a broad reopening of venture capital. They looked like a market making a narrow, ... Read more ›
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Ukraine might have greenlit combat humanoid robots, but battlefield realities favor economies of scale for much simpler contraptions. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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India's Competition Commission has fined HP India and its partners about 1.4 billion rupees ($14.4 million), alleging the company colluded with resellers to rig government PC bids and fix prices for ink cartridges, toner, and other printing supplies. "It said that HP was aiming to outcompete other OEMs and discourage resellers from selling 'counterfeit' ink and toner," adds Ars Technica. From the report: In an order, the CCI said that... Read more ›
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A major flaw in Apple's Hide My Email feature exposes users' real email addresses to anyone who can look them up online. Read more ›
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The 2026 Microsoft Excel World Championship’s (MEWC) inaugural Landmark Battle has a winner. Read more ›
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Google Health is being pushed a new update, labeled as version 5.04. It feels like only recently that we got version 5.03, but apparently Google and the Health team are working hard lately. Inside, the team has brought custom foods, allowing you to create, edit, and delete custom foods for more “personalized and easier logging.”... Read the original post: Google Health App Update 5.04: Custom Foods, Quick Logging Macros Read more ›
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We visited Kernel, a tech company founded by Bryan Johnson, to test its $117,200 brain-scanning headset. Read more ›
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On today’s Uncanny Valley, we unpack OpenAI’s ongoing drama, both legal and reputational, and whether these developments could further hurt the company—particularly in its fight against Anthropic. Read more ›
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You think your files are safe in the cloud, but modern ransomware can still destroy them. Discover the security rule experts recommend. Read more ›
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Фантастический сюжет о противостоянии рабочих и машин официально стал реальностью на заводах южнокорейского автогиганта Hyundai Motor. Профсоюз компании провел трехдневную частичную забастовку, которая вошла в историю как первая остановка крупного автомобильного производства, напрямую спровоцированная планами по внедрению человекоподобных роботов. Рабочие уходили со смен на два часа раньше, требуя от руководства юридических гарантий защиты занятости на фоне грядущей автоматизации. Читать далее Read more ›
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Data labelling startup Mercor said Thursday it had bought Deeptune, which designs reinforcement learning environments, or simulated spaces that helps teach AI models how to operate and act. Mercor pays contractors, often with domain expertise in fields such as physics and finance, on an hourly ... Read more ›
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Fidji Simo is stepping down from her role as CEO of AGI deployment for OpenAI amid her battle with a chronic illness, the longtime tech executive said on Thursday. Simo said in a post on X that she will transition to being a part-time advisor to OpenAI. Her announcement extends a vacancy in the ... Read more ›
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The AI laggards are going on the offensive! Meta Platforms on Thursday unveiled its latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, a day after SpaceX’s AI unit introduced a new model of its own. Like SpaceX, Meta claimed its new model delivers performance comparable to that of established models from AI labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. We’ll have to wait a few days to see whether developers agree. (Meanwhile,... Read more ›
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Junjie Yan, founder and CEO of Chinese AI developer MiniMax told employees in an internal memo that he will forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while also promising to allocate some of his personal shares toward employee incentives. In the memo, which was ... Read more ›
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South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in the largest initial public offering by a foreign company in the U.S., surpassing the record set by Alibaba’s 2014 IPO that raised $25 billion. The company, already listed in Seoul, said it intends to use the proceeds for the ... Read more ›
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Decisions about when, where, and how to expand a business are always fraught with uncertainty. The prospect of growing the business and reaching new customers with novel offerings is enticing, but a false step can be extremely costly. A well-researched competitive analysis can reduce this risk by surfacing potential stumbling blocks at the very beginning of the brainstorming process. Historically, these analyses have been extremely time-consuming, as they have required... Read more ›
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U.S. investment firm Susquehanna International Group, one of ByteDance’s biggest shareholders, is winding down its China-based venture investment team, another sign of the challenges facing U.S. venture investors operating in China. SIG China’s managing director, Tim Gong, who ran the team, is expected to leave the firm, according to four people with knowledge of the situation. Other venture employees are expected to leave as well. Gong is expected to launch... Read more ›
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Cursor is building a general purpose AI agent designed to compete directly with Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, The Information reported. Cursor began working on the product after it started leasing compute from SpaceX’s AI unit in April, two people familiar with the project said. Last month, SpaceX ... Read more ›
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Among the many private group chats circulating through Silicon Valley these days, one of the more unusual ones is a thread called “To Make an Omelette.” The chat, which was started last year, numbers more than 80 women, including tech founders and other white-collar professionals. (It was originally assembled by Aella, a figure within the Bay Area’s AI rationalist scene, who is also a pseudonymous sex worker.) I spoke with... Read more ›
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk told staff at the carmaker to move to using Grok, the AI model from SpaceXAI, according to a memo sent to staff on Friday. Musk told staff that they should make the change when possible given Grok 4.5’s lower token costs as compared to competitors, the memo said. Musk also ... Read more ›
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