Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: Inside ZaiNar, the secretive startup hoping to power the physical AI era ⹠Policy: Meet the Trump official who wants to deliver a win to prediction markets ⹠Plus, Recommendationsâour weekly pop culture picks: âExpanse: The Nannup Four,â âThe Infinity Machineâ and âBeefâWatching the Elon Musk versus OpenAI trial from inside the courtroom gave me a front-row seat to the AI boomâs... Read more âș
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As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in recent weeks has begun pushing sellers to switch to a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking only to TikTok Shop,... Read more âș
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Amazon Web Services is releasing a new product aimed at making it easier for advertising technology companies to use cloud technology and integrate with one another. Thatâs notable because many advertising technology companies have not yet migrated to the cloud, said AWS global head of ad tech ... Read more âș
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Microsoft raised CEO Satya Nadellaâs total compensation for the year ending in June to $96.5 million, up from $79.1 million last year, the company said in a filing. Over $84 million of Nadellaâs compensation was in stock. Nadellaâs pay rose because he âpositioned Microsoft as a clear artificial ... Read more âș
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Sequoia Capitalâs former chief operating officer, Sumaiya Balbale, resigned from her job this summer after partner Shaun Maguire made posts on X she considered Islamophobic, according to the Financial Times, which cited people with knowledge of the situation. In July, Maguire accused New ... Read more âș
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OpenAI continued its march to world domination, unveiling its long-anticipated Web browser, ChatGPT Atlas. It offers some snazzy features, including a split-screen view that allows you to ask ChatGPT questions related to the webpage youâre on without switching tabs. Given how difficult it is to change peopleâs ingrained habits, getting consumers to switch to a new browser may be toughâcertainly harder than getting them to try the chatbot. But at... Read more âș
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Anthropic is in talks with Google to access additional computing power in a deal in the high tens of billions of dollars, according to a person with knowledge of its plans. Talks are still early, and deal terms could change. Google is an existing cloud provider for Anthropic, which recently ... Read more âș
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After four years in a deep freeze, initial public offerings are finally showing signs of life. Tech companies like Klarna, StubHub, and Figure have recently hit the exchange, signaling that the long initial public offering winter mayâat lastâbe coming to an end. But itâs not just IPOs driving renewed optimism. Mergers and acquisitions, special purpose acquisition companies, and direct listings are also on the rise, giving founders a growing number... Read more âș
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Amazon aims to avoid significantly growing its U.S. workforce while doubling the volume of products it sells by 2033, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing internal company documents. Without robotics and automation, the company would expect to need to hire more than 600,000 more people ... Read more âș
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A flurry of tech mergers and acquisitions catalyzed by the artificial intelligence boom has been big business for lawyers. Latham & Watkins, which has landed on some of the highest-profile deals, says tech is moving fast and companies are keeping pace, sometimes getting transactions done in days. âItâs speed oftentimes because the deal is existential to the business, whether itâs getting the acquisition done before a competitor or raising capital... Read more âș
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OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser that allows users to search the web alongside a companion ChatGPT sidebar, confirming earlier reporting from The Information. The browser heightens OpenAIâs competition with Google, which handles most search questions on the web, including ... Read more âș
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Netflix reported 17% higher revenue of $11.5 billion, right in line with its projection issued in mid-July, while operating income rose 28% to $3.2 billion. The companyâs shares fell 6% in after-hours trading, perhaps because of investor disappointment that Netflix didnât exceed its ... Read more âș
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Google Cloud has hired Karthik Narain, a software industry veteran who was most recently chief technology officer at Accenture, to fill the newly created role of chief product and business officer, CEO Thomas Kurian announced in a LinkedIn post. Narain, who reports to Kurian, now oversees around ... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg must testify in the trial for a lawsuit alleging social media companies have harmed young users, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled on Monday, CNBC reported. Instagram head Adam Mosseri and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel will also have to testify in the trial, ... Read more âș
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Around the start of this year, executives at artificial intelligence providers like OpenAI and Salesforce said 2025 would be âthe year of agents,â making it seem like fully autonomous AI would soon take over human jobs. Since then, Salesforce, Microsoft, SAP and many others pitched roughly seven types of agent to automate white collar tasks in realms like coding, HR, finance, and sales. But the promise of truly autonomous agents... Read more âș
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The Federal Reserve is exploring creating a new type of account that could be used by crypto, fintech and other companies to process payments without using banks. Fed governor Chrisopher Waller, speaking at the Fedâs first-ever Payments Innovation Conference, said he has directed Fed staff to ... Read more âș
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Elon Musk attacked acting NASA leader Sean Duffy in a series of X posts on Tuesday after Duffy said the space agency would consider alternatives to SpaceX for a Moon mission scheduled to launch in 2027. Duffy, who was named acting NASA administration by President Donald Trump in July and also ... Read more âș
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Amazon Web Services said its cloud services had returned to ânormal operationsâ as of Monday afternoon Pacific time, after a major global outage lasting more than 12 hours affected users of popular internet services such as Zoom, Netflix, Snapchat and Reddit. The outage affected servers in ... Read more âș
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Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, on Friday threw cold water on the idea that artificial general intelligence is around the corner. He also cast doubt on various assumptions about AI made by the industryâs biggest boosters, such as Anthropicâs Dario Amodei and OpenAIâs Sam Altman.The highly regarded Karpathy called reinforcement learningâarguably the most important area of research right nowââterrible,â said AI-powered coding agents arenât as exciting... Read more âș
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Warner Bros. Discoveryâs board of directors said it had begun a âreview of strategic alternativesâ as a result of âunsolicited interest the company has received from multiple parties for both the entire company and Warner Bros.â The announcement comes a few weeks after news reports said David ... Read more âș
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In the past year, Mexican hotel chain Tafer Hotels & Resorts has seen traffic to its website fall 25%. Despite that, Taferâs revenue is up year over year, according to Max Gomez Montejo, chief digital marketing officer at the hotel chain. Tafer isnât alone. A growing number of companies say their websites are losing traffic, thanks to how artificial intelligence chatbots have changed the way people use online search. Yet... Read more âș
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