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Musk said SpaceX plans to launch five uncrewed Starship rockets to Mars in 2026, followed by the first manned missions either two or four years later. 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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In case you missed it, my colleagues broke news yesterday about Anthropic’s attempt to draft off OpenAI’s pending fundraising, by looking to do its own funding round. Like OpenAI, Anthropic wants to double its valuation. Whether it can do so despite weaker financials remains to be seen! On to today’s issue… It’s been a while since Microsoft told the world anything about its development of generative artificial intelligence that could... 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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Sports jersey seller Fanatics was one of the few high-profile private commerce companies to dodge a valuation collapse in 2022 when interest rates began rising. But as its growth has slowed, investors have started to sour on its prospects, with four mutual funds marking down their stakes in Fanatics by an average of 14% in the first half of the year. According to data compiled by Caplight, funds also made... Read more ›
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Creators played a big role at Meta’s annual developer conference last year, when Instagram unveiled a line of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots styled after celebrities. Meta scrapped that experiment earlier this year, in favor of helping influencers make their own chatbots.Meta is now expanding these chatbots beyond text messages. Creators using Meta’s free AI Studio software in the U.S. will be able to make realistic video avatars modeled on themselves that... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a new feature on Wednesday that will allow creators to make realistic video avatars modeled on themselves that speak and listen to fans who visit the creators’ accounts on Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg demonstrated the technology at Meta ... Read more ›
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Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov said that the private messaging app will start sharing the IP addresses and phone numbers of users who violate its terms of service with “relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.” Telegram’s encrypted messaging has made the app a magnet for ... Read more ›
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Between OpenAI’s long-awaited Strawberry launch and its monster ongoing fundraising, it might be easy to forget about Sora, a video-generating model it teased in February to global fanfare. A number of investors told me at the time that the impressive Sora demos cast a worrying shadow over the gaggle of competing AI video startups that had raised hundreds of millions in venture capital. Those concerns may have eased: six months... Read more ›
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Helping artificial intelligence companies improve the accuracy of their large language models is turning into a giant business for Scale AI, which labels data for big AI developers like Meta Platforms and Google. Scale nearly quadrupled its sales to almost $400 million in the first half of the year compared with the same period last year, according to people familiar with the figures. Scale is among the privately held firms... Read more ›
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Private equity dealmakers are starting to get busy. The latest evidence of that was today’s news that Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners will buy Smartsheet, which sells software that helps workers plan projects, for $8.4 billion. As falling interest rates are likely at least part of the reason for the (slight) deal revival, we should see more acquisitions in the coming months. Score one for those deal-starved bankers out there.Smartsheet... Read more ›
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