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Even as businesses struggle to figure out how artificial intelligence chatbots can help their operations, they’re getting inundated with a new AI offering: chatbots that can independently take actions like scheduling appointments, also known as AI agents.
In the last month, Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday and ServiceNow—hoping to head off similar products from OpenAI—have unveiled products they said will let workers automate ordinary business tasks, such as placing an e-commerce order or scheduling a sales.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook will soon be $50 million richer after selling 223,986 shares of Apple Stock, earning him a total of $50,276,076, according to an SEC filing. Cook was originally granted the stock as part of performance-based award based on Apple's shareholder return relative to other S&P 500 companies, and he often sells stock in October. Earlier this week, Cook was granted an additional 219,502 shares of Apple stock.... Read more ›
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United States District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan released the 165-page motion by Special Counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday. Read more ›
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Meta’s glasses include a privacy light, but it’s not always easily visible. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Two Harvard students have created an eerie demo of how smart glasses can use facial recognition tech to instantly doxx people’s identities, phone numbers, and addresses. The most unsettling part is the demo uses current, widely available technology like the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and public databases. AnhPhu Nguyen,... Read more ›
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CRV, a 54-year-old firm known for early bets on Ring, DoorDash and Twitter, says it’s planning to return $275 million of a $500 million fund, raised two years ago, focused on later stage startups. It made the decision after struggling to find enough investments in these companies at the ... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images First, it was Spotify, then Verizon, then PlayStation, and now it’s apparently Bank of America’s turn to have an outage this week. Some customers have reported problems accessing their bank accounts on Wednesday, with the balances showing $0 or “—-” instead of what should be there. Reports spiked just before 1PM ET on Down Detector, with posts across X and Reddit from... Read more ›
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In a recent all-hands, Google leaders told staff it was keeping its work policy flexible, but warned staff to be productive at home. Read more ›
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I drove a 2024 Toyota Highlander and was impressed by its efficient hybrid powertrain, great build quality, and well-designed cabin. Read more ›
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It looks like all Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 models are being impacted by the glitch. Read more ›
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The Windows 11 24H2 rollout formally removes support for Wordpad as Microsoft formally adds in its deprecated feature, ending its 28 years of product lifespan. Read more ›
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Last fall, members of OpenAI’s board of directors had had enough of the rumblings inside the artificial intelligence startup about CEO Sam Altman’s management style. They began questioning staffers, including Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, about how Altman operated, including his tendency to pit other leaders against each other. They worried that those tendencies, left unchecked, could hurt OpenAI’s ability to retain key researchers and executives. A year later, those... Read more ›
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Two years ago, a behind-the-scenes giant in U.S. financial markets went live with one of Wall Street’s biggest and most ambitious blockchain initiatives. Known as Project Ion, the effort aimed to use blockchain to revolutionize settlement of stock trades, when buyers fork over the cash and get share certificates. Firms ranging from big banks like JPMorgan Chase to trading app Robinhood got involved. But it didn’t catch on, a person... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:•The Big Read: How YouTuber Mark Rober got inside the heads of Silicon Valley families. • The Top 5: The best trails to use e-bikes to get out of your cars and smell Mother Nature. • Plus: A new album from electronic artist Jamie xx; a Batman villain spreads his wings; and the origins of reality television.Just when you thought OpenAI had filled its quota of... Read more ›
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Lightspeed Venture Partners is raising money for three new funds that could total around $7 billion, according to a person who has discussed the fundraising with the firm’s partners. It’s the latest firm seeking to raise billions after a period when institutional investors pulled back from venture capital. Close to 40% of the new money will go to an opportunity fund that will make follow-on investments in its portfolio companies... Read more ›
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Thrive Capital has raised $391.3 million in new capital for an investment vehicle associated with its $3.5 billion growth fund launched in August, according to a securities filing. In March 2023, Thrive similarly raised $744.8 million for an special-purpose vehicle, a pool of capital dedicated ... Read more ›
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OpenAI expects to close its funding round, which could value it at $150 billion, by next week, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited a memo to investors from Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar. Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital is leading the fundraise of as much as $7 billion in ... Read more ›
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Last fall, Satyajeet Salgar, the director of product management and user experience at Google AI, was huddled outside his kids’ Palo Alto, Calif., elementary school with a group of parents who were there for a class performance. The parents began talking about their kids’ favorite shows, and the conversation landed on the topic of Mark Rober, a YouTuber. Each of the parents discussed watching videos made by Rober—a former NASA... Read more ›
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You’ve seen them everywhere—and have probably even dodged a couple while crossing Market Street in San Francisco or Fifth Avenue in New York. Electric bikes have become a de rigueur mode of transportation for the office-going set, affording even those who routinely skip leg day at the gym the ability to sail through SoMa without breaking a sweat. Max Mautner, a software engineer from San Mateo, Calif., who works at... Read more ›
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The internet didn’t hold back in mocking OpenAI and SoftBank in response to my scoop on SoftBank’s Vision Fund investing $500 million at a $150 billion pre-investment valuation in the ChatGPT developer. The commentators quickly interpreted the Japanese telecom giant’s participation in the financing as a sign that the artificial intelligence market is peaking.It’s become clear that the investment firms keen to support OpenAI’s mega-financing are the same ones that... Read more ›
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Even as businesses struggle to figure out how artificial intelligence chatbots can help their operations, they’re getting inundated with a new AI offering: chatbots that can independently take actions like scheduling appointments, also known as AI agents. In the last month, Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday and ServiceNow—hoping to head off similar products from OpenAI—have unveiled products they said will let workers automate ordinary business tasks, such as placing an e-commerce order... Read more ›
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