The White House is pausing plans for an executive order over state AI regulation while it waits to see if Republicans can get a provision included in the National Defense Authorization Act to block state AI regulation, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. A draft copy of the ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Zach Dell’s Texas-size dream • The Arena: Figure skating launches a comeback—with AI• Plus, our Recommendations: “Allison After NXIVM,” “The Finest Hotel in Kabul” and “Bugonia”A horrifying thought has lately been immovable from my mind: Am I gonna have to dump ChatGPT for Gemini?Well, Gemini 3 is out, and it’s pretty darn slick: Google has improved the chatbot’s ability to code, search... Read more ›
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To get inside why Zach Dell believes he will shake up the half-trillion-dollar U.S. power industry and then go global, it helps to take account of who’s inspiring the moves. That would be his father, Michael Dell, who sold computer parts out of his college dorm at 19, took Dell Computer public four years later and by age 26 had entirely disrupted the personal computer business and become one of... Read more ›
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Veza, whose software helps businesses monitor employees’ and AI agents’ access to internal data, has been talking to potential buyers about a sale that could value the startup at more than $1 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions. A sale at that level would be a premium to its price in April, when investors led by New Enterprise Associates valued the five-year-old startup at $808 million including the... Read more ›
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Strategy, Michael Saylor’s bitcoin-holding firm, fell 3.7% Friday amid investor concerns that the stock could get excluded from MSCI indexes. Bitcoin fell 2% and is on track for its worst monthly performance since June 2022. Strategy is down 62% from its peak in July this year while bitcoin has ... Read more ›
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Crowdstrike and Salesforce both said this week that they are investigating incidents where hackers attempted to steal internal data, and a hacking group known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has publicly claimed responsibility for both breaches. Salesforce said in an alert to customers that hackers ... Read more ›
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Of all the places AI is seeping into, a program by a pair of Czech ice dancers angling for a spot at the Winter Olympics in February may be one of the most unexpected. Yet, at last weekend’s Skate America tournament, a major international competition ahead of Milano Cortina 2026, Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek performed a program that included music partially composed by AI in the style of the... Read more ›
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Visa and Mastercard are moving quickly to embrace cryptocurrencies for payments, to take advantage of the rising popularity of stablecoins in developing countries and fend off competition from merchants trying to circumvent their networks. The companies ramped up their crypto payments business overseas and have been looking for acquisitions or investments. Visa wants to invest in stablecoin startups, especially in infrastructure that can help scale its network of banks and... Read more ›
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In an internal memo, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that Google’s recent progress in artificial intelligence could create “temporary economic headwinds” for his company, The Information reported Thursday. The memo anticipated Google’s launch of its Gemini 3 model, suggesting ... Read more ›
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We’re moving off the (unresolved) AI bubble debate to a much more fundamental question about AI. That is whether decisions about an enormously costly technology, which threatens to put many people out of work, should be left to tech leaders or discussed more broadly. It turns out Republicans may have the best handle on this issue, most obviously Florida governor Ron DeSantis. He’s long been vocal about the threat AI... Read more ›
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Google released a new version of its “Nano Banana” image generation model on Thursday, updating a model that had gone viral earlier in the year. Google highlighted the ability of the new model, dubbed “Nano Banana Pro,” to create infographics and posters, as well as its ability to keep elements ... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Google’s recent progress in artificial intelligence could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company,” though he added that OpenAI would emerge ahead. After OpenAI researchers heard that Google had created a new AI that appears to have leapfrogged OpenAI’s in the way it was developed, Altman said in the memo that “we know we have some work to do but... Read more ›
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For 15 years, Goldman Sachs’ private tech conference in Las Vegas has been the event for taking the pulse of startup dealmaking. Years ago, it was possible to run into founders such as Uber’s Travis Kalanick and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom raising money for their then-small startups. The conference is much bigger now (which makes some investors grumble), but it remains a nexus for investors who want to throw money at... Read more ›
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Physical Intelligence, the robotic AI company, raised $600 million at a $5 billion valuation, excluding the investment, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The Information broke the news of the potential funding round in September. Alphabet’s CapitalG led the round. Existing investors Lux Capital, ... Read more ›
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Waymo said Thursday that it’s added New Orleans, Minneapolis and Tampa to the list of cities where it plans to launch its autonomous ride-hailing service. That brings the total number of new cities where it’s announced launch plans to more than 20, according to the company. For now, Waymo will ... Read more ›
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Walmart grew sales nearly 6% to $179.5 billion in the third quarter of its current fiscal year, as the retail giant continues to expand its e-commerce and advertising businesses and compete more closely with Amazon. Executives said Thursday that consumer demand remained mostly resilient and that ... Read more ›
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We’ve been hearing for years about the theoretical threat AI poses to enterprise software apps like Salesforce, ServiceNow and Workday. While a disaster scenario for these firms hasn’t happened because AI generally isn’t reliable enough to duplicate what they do, some customers are still trying to use the latest AI models to replace those apps to save money.For instance, some customers of Databricks, which sells a data lake, a type... Read more ›
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Global payroll startup Deel labeled as an expense a $6,000 payment it made to the wife of the company’s chief operating officer–cash that was sent to an alleged spy inside rival firm Rippling 56 seconds later–according to newly unsealed documents in a lawsuit between the two Silicon Valley ... Read more ›
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The White House plans an executive order to block states from passing laws regulating AI, as we reported Wednesday. Instead of state laws, the order suggests there should be a federal law governing the information that AI companies have to disclose and how they handle potential bias in models. Specifically, it directs White House AI “czar” David Sacks and government agencies to help make recommendations that Congress could write into... Read more ›
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SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion to remodel an electric vehicle plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI’s forthcoming data centers, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The Japanese conglomerate, one of the largest investors in OpenAI, will use the factory to supply data center sites in Texas and multiple other unannounced locations, the people and another person with knowledge of the... Read more ›
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