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Here’s a number that might surprise you: In the first six months of the year, California Public Employees’ Retirement System committed about $4.5 billion to venture capital funds, according to public filings. That’s almost 15% of the total capital raised by U.S. VC firms in the same period, and a staggering increase over Calpers’ 2022 commitments to VC funds, which totaled about $1.5 billion.As most LPs take a step back from risky VC fund investments, California’s biggest pension fund is throwing cash at Sa
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Last year, the board of now-collapsed fintech startup Synapse Financial Technologies discussed whether to remove the company’s CEO, Sankaet Pathak. At the time, discrepancies in Synapse’s ledgers were piling up, which the board was aware of. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange argued in favor of keeping Pathak in the role based on the belief that founders were best placed to run their companies, according to a person close to... Read more ›
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Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, announced on Monday that he would reinstate a tax credit for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump Administration removes federal EV tax credits. But the state may not extend the credits to Tesla because of the company’s large market ... Read more ›
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If Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had its way, the chip manufacturing powerhouse would be a neutral party in the battle between the U.S. and China for technological supremacy—a semiconductor version of Switzerland, one TSMC executive told The Information. Unfortunately, the company may find it increasingly tough to avoid picking a side. Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department launched an investigation into whether TSMC was still producing chips for Chinese tech... Read more ›
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Uber announced a new service on Tuesday to help companies label their data and train artificial intelligence models. Through the new service, Scaled Solutions, Uber will hire data labelers on contract to provide companies with human-written annotations, such as descriptions of images or rankings ... Read more ›
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For several years, a favorite tactic of progressives agitating against social media and conservative news outlets has been pressuring marketers to pull their ads. Advertisers have frequently gone along with those campaigns, fearful of the negative publicity associated with their ads appearing on controversial sites. That’s starting to change. Marketers have begun to distance themselves from industrywide efforts to guard against worrisome content. Some are even reducing spending on brand... Read more ›
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Apple’s desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can’t overcome a design hurdle with the slim iPhone planned for release next fall—it can’t fit a physical SIM card tray, which is required in China. Apple plans to release its slim iPhone next year, alongside new versions of its traditional models, aiming to rejuvenate iPhone sales by providing customers with a compelling reason to... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing Google’s search antitrust case warned that he doesn’t want to delay the upcoming trial of remedies to deal with Google’s illegal search monopoly, now scheduled for the spring. At a status conference for the case on Tuesday, the judge said the incoming presidential ... Read more ›
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It’s a bit early to be offering predictions for 2025, but here goes anyway. Chances are very good that sometime next year we’re going to hear a bunch of complaints about newly released Apple iPhones dropping calls more often than previous models did. In other words, we’re in for a repeat of the “Antennagate” brouhaha of 2010, when similar connectivity issues on the new iPhone 4 became a big story.Assuming... Read more ›
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Amazon is investing another $4 billion into Anthropic, bringing the total it’s invested in the artificial intelligence startup to $8 billion, the companies said Friday. Anthropic has also agreed to use Amazon chips to train its AI. Amazon will become Anthropic’s “primary training partner,” ... Read more ›
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