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Investors in artificial intelligence startups have been wowed by the growth of many young AI startups, which are hitting revenue milestones years earlier than a previous generation of software companies did. But they are worried many of those startups won’t be able to hang on to this phenomenal growth—and are hunting for clues on which ones will survive.
To do so, they’re zeroing in on a favored metric of enterprise software investors: net revenue retention rates, which measure a company’s ability to keep.
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Elon Musk appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday to defend the cuts being made by DOGE. Read more ›
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with multiple federal employee unions, have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) agency to block their access to sensitive and identifying information on millions of Americans. Specifically, the plaintiffs are looking to block them from being able to access data stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and to delete any information they've collected so far. The... Read more ›
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Apple is renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its Maps app. The company started rolling out the name change for US users this afternoon, and Bloomberg reports that it will soon display the name for users globally, too. Google Maps started showing the “Gulf of America” for users in the […] Read more ›
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Lina Khan is out of the government, but she hasn’t given up her crusade against big tech. The former Federal Trade Commission chair has written an opinion piece for The New York Times suggesting the success of China’s artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek is a sign that “there isn’t enough competition” in the tech industry. Perhaps Lina Khan is living on a different planet. In the U.S., aside from ChatGPT parent... Read more ›
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How painful would it be for ByteDance to shut down TikTok in the U.S. altogether? Such a question may be moot if you only listened to President Donald Trump, who has frequently weighed in on the likelihood of a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations—perhaps to Oracle, maybe to Elon Musk, or even to the U.S. government itself! But as we’ve reported here and as the Washington Post reminded us... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase’s $917 million investment in a Greek fintech company has gone so wrong that the bank last year offered to sell back half of its stake at a valuation of $175 million. The fintech, Viva Wallet, didn’t take the offer. JPMorgan responded with a lawsuit that accused Viva’s founder of bullying and threatening its representatives. It demanded its full investment back, plus interest. Whoever wins this fight, the deal... Read more ›
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Hugging Face, a repository for open-source artificial intelligence, has laid off about 10 people from its sales team, according to a person with direct knowledge of the cuts. That’s around 4% of the 250-person company. The cuts impacted Hugging Face’s consulting business, “Expert Support ... Read more ›
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Amazon’s sales grew 10% year-over-year to $187.8 billion in the fourth quarter, the company said Thursday. Operating income, meanwhile, grew 61% to $21.2 billion, in part as the company kept a lid on logistics costs. Most of Amazon’s business lines reported steady or slightly slowing growth ... Read more ›
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Google doesn’t get the accolades OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek are getting in advancing artificial intelligence, but it’s arguably doing some things right.Case in point: On Wednesday, Google made a trio of new Gemini AI models generally available to app developers, including a reasoning model akin to OpenAI’s o1 and the much-discussed DeepSeek R1. The models themselves are nearly as good as those of Google’s rivals, according to the Chatbot Arena... Read more ›
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The falling cost of artificial intelligence—underscored by the arrival of DeepSeek—is likely to pressure software firms to stop charging customers for ChatGPT-like features such as summarizing documents and automatically drafting emails, which are fast becoming a commodity, executives from security firm Palo Alto Networks and file storage firm Box told me. The executives didn’t name names, but they’re likely referring to companies such as Microsoft and Salesforce that have been... Read more ›
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China’s anti-monopoly regulator is weighing a probe into Apple over its App Store policies, Bloomberg reported. Officials from China’s State Administration for Market Regulation have spoken to Apple executives and app developers since last year, which was before President Donald Trump took ... Read more ›
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Investors in artificial intelligence startups have been wowed by the growth of many young AI startups, which are hitting revenue milestones years earlier than a previous generation of software companies did. But they are worried many of those startups won’t be able to hang on to this phenomenal growth—and are hunting for clues on which ones will survive. To do so, they’re zeroing in on a favored metric of enterprise... Read more ›
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