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Surely if you’re a reader of this newsletter, you know by now that OpenAI is in late-stage talks to raise a mammoth funding round that could value it at $150 billion. What you may not know is that the company has asked investors to fork over a minimum of $250 million, according to people with knowledge of the terms. To recap, OpenAI is closing in on a new financing of between $5 billion and $7 billion in a round led by Thrive Capital, which is committing $1 billion. Microsoft, Nvidia and Apple are in talks.
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Ted Colbert, the head of Boeing's defense, space, and security division is leaving the company effective immediately, CEO Kelly Ortberg announced. Read more ›
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission isn't happy that Elon Musk missed court-ordered testimony for its Twitter probe to attend a SpaceX launch. Read more ›
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Disability rights campaigner Adam Pearson stars alongside Sebastian Stan in A24's new movie "A Different Man." Here's what to know about him. Read more ›
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Comedian John Mulaney laid into tech bros and AI-obsessives during his closing night set at the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Read more ›
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Katy Perry's latest album, "143," largely produced by Dr. Luke, disappoints with flat synths, lackluster lyrics, and no standout tracks. Read more ›
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"Our demand booms wherever she goes," United Airlines' chief commercial officer said. Read more ›
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While the iPhone 16 series just began arriving to customers today, there are already rumors about the next-generation iPhone 17 series. In a post shared on social media platform X on Thursday, display industry analyst Ross Young said he believes that next year's iPhone 17 Pro will feature under-display Face ID. This change would presumably extend to the iPhone 17 Pro Max. Under-display Face ID has been rumored for several... Read more ›
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Qualcomm approached Intel about a takeover deal, the WSJ reported. Meanwhile, Intel is planning a separate foundry subsidiary and staff cuts. Read more ›
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We don't mean to take away from the excitement of the iPhone 16 launch today, but there are more rumors to share about next year's iPhone 17 lineup. Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants today informed MacRumors that the standard iPhone 17 and a slimmer model that we are calling the "iPhone 17 Air" will both feature ProMotion, meaning that each device's display would be able to ramp up... Read more ›
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Bluesky crossed 10 million users this week, adding 4 million new users since Musk's Brazil shenanigans. Read more ›
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If you upgraded from an Xbox One to an Xbox Series X|S, you might want to use the older controllers on the newer console, but is that even possible? Read more ›
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Cards Against Humanity is the latest entity to take on Elon Musk in court. The irreverent party game company filed a $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX for trespassing on property it owns in Texas, which happens to sit near SpaceX facilities. According to a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Texas, Musk's rocket company began using its land without permission for the last six months. SpaceX took what was... Read more ›
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If Republicans are successful, the traditional "blue wall" states would no longer be enough to win Kamala Harris the presidency. Read more ›
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Qualcomm reportedly approached Intel to discuss a takeover, but a deal is "far from certain." Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday afternoon, The Wall Street Journal reported Intel had been approached by fellow chip giant Qualcomm about a possible takeover. While any deal is described as “far from certain,” according to the paper’s unnamed sources, it would represent a tremendous fall for a company that had been the most valuable chip company in the world, based largely on its x86 processor technology... Read more ›
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Intel was once the largest chipmaker and a US technology powerhouse. Around 2018, this leadership began to crumble as TSMC steadily moved ahead. Read more ›
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Some customers who lined up Friday for Apple's new iPhone 16 were excited for the Camera Control button and AI features; others just felt it was time. Read more ›
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Calling for Apple to break its silence on the ongoing war in Gaza and to rid so-called blood minerals from its supply chain, protesters stood outside over a dozen Apple Stores around the world Friday. Read more ›
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The Information
Insight Partners has $10 billion in commitments from its investors for its latest fund to back private tech startups, according to a person briefed on its plans. While that’s half the $20 billion it had originally targeted at the tail end of the 2021-2022 bull market, it’s still a massive fund ... Read more ›
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CEO letters to staff are usually written with so much bombast and blather that they say little of note. But that’s not the case with one that came from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy today. Despite a sleepy headline, “Strengthening Our Culture and Teams,” Jassy’s letter delivers some home truths. Most notably, he made it clear that Amazon has evolved into a lumbering bureaucracy, with too many managers and some processes... Read more ›
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As director of IBM Research and co-chair of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Dr. Dario Gil oversees one of the world’s largest research institutes. He shapes IBM’s AI vision and, as chair of the National Science Board, has a rare vantage point into the technology’s many evolutions and uses. As part of The Information’s recent San Francisco AI Summit, Amir Efrati, executive editor of The Information, sat down with Gil... Read more ›
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Three federal appeals court judges hearing TikTok’s suit against the U.S. government over legislation that would ban the app in the U.S. focused their questions on the government’s claim that TikTok posed a national security risk. The line of query signaled the judges may be unswayed by TikTok’s ... Read more ›
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Penny Lane, a Boykin spaniel living in the East Bay, is a bolter. It comes naturally to her: The Boykin, which is the state dog of South Carolina, was bred to fetch game during a hunt. “We live in the suburbs, so there’s some retrieving to be done, but not as much as one wishes,” said Penny’s owner, Allison Braley, a Bain Capital Ventures partner. “The concern is always, ‘Does... Read more ›
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Startups that can cut down on costly paperwork for lawyers using generative artificial intelligence continue to draw investor dollars, despite the high costs of developing that software and the difficulties the startups face in acquiring exclusive legal data to train their models.The latest: San Francisco-based EvenUp, which develops AI software to help personal injury lawyers compile claims using medical documents and case files, is in talks to raise a new... Read more ›
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Google’s YouTube isn’t the focus of the Justice Department’s second antitrust case against Google, now on trial in a Virginia courthouse. The case centers on the tech giant’s dominance of tools used by other companies buying and selling ads across the web and whether that sway hurts independent publishers. But YouTube benefits from Google’s ad-buying tools, which have helped it become the leader in the market for streaming video ads.... Read more ›
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One of Google's efforts to catch up to OpenAI in the artificial intelligence race is struggling. Google’s conversational AI, Gemini, is too difficult for app developers and businesses to use compared to rivals’ technology, according to interviews with developers and several Google employees that help companies use the AI. Read more ›
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Surely if you’re a reader of this newsletter, you know by now that OpenAI is in late-stage talks to raise a mammoth funding round that could value it at $150 billion. What you may not know is that the company has asked investors to fork over a minimum of $250 million, according to people with knowledge of the terms. To recap, OpenAI is closing in on a new financing of... Read more ›
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Microsoft will raise the quarterly dividend that it pays investors to 83 cents a share, up from 75 cents, beginning in November, the company said late Monday. The software maker will also buy back $60 billion in stock, replacing its previous $60 billion stock buyback that the company initiated ... Read more ›
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