Meta Platforms is building several multi-gigawatt data centers, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday in a post on Threads. One of these projects, called Prometheus, is located in Ohio and will come online next year. Another, called Hyperion, is located in Louisiana and is expected to bring online ... Read more ›
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Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device that resembles a pair of goggles, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. It’s following in the footsteps of Meta Platforms, which has been working on a similar product scheduled for release in 2027. Mixed reality devices let people overlay digital images over their real surroundings to enhance... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s main column about Grok 4, we wanted to share four things we learned from the craziness on Friday, when Google snatched the CEO and technology behind Windsurf, a competitor to Cursor that OpenAI had agreed to buy for $3 billion just two months ago. Read more ›
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Earlier this year, when The Browser Company was looking for a cloud provider to power the artificial intelligence features in a web browser it was developing, the startup’s leaders asked Amazon Web Services if it could handle the work. Winning this business was important to AWS. The Browser Company projected it would eventually spend tens of millions of dollars a year on cloud services to run the AI features for... Read more ›
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Elon Musk says Tesla shareholders will vote on whether the electric vehicle maker should invest in xAI, noting in a post on X that “if it was up to me, Tesla would have invested in xAI long ago.” Musk’s comments, made on Sunday night, came a day after the Wall Street Journal reported that Musk’s ... Read more ›
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In a series of posts late Friday night, the X account for Grok apologized for what it described as “horrific behavior” that many users of the AI chatbot recently experienced. Grok, which is operated by Elon Musk’s xAI, sparked outrage earlier in the week after it began posting on X in praise of ... Read more ›
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One of Elon Musk’s companies is giving another a helping hand. SpaceX, Musk’s rocket and satellite internet company, will invest $2 billion in xAI, the artificial intelligence startup that Musk recently merged with X, the social media service, The Wall Street Journal reported. The investment ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has acquired PlayAI, a startup working on artificial intelligence-powered voice technology, Bloomberg reported. PlayAI staffers will join Meta next week and report to Johan Schalkwyk, who previously worked at the voice startup Sesame AI, according to Bloomberg. Last year, PlayAI ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: How Dylan Field thrived after the Adobe deal died• Artificial Intelligence: Silicon Valley’s summer obsession? AI note taking • Plus, our Recommendations: A true crime podcast about a ninth life; the Roosevelts and the panda bear; and revisiting a cruise from hellAugustus Doricko has never been shy about his identity.When he spoke to The Information about a year ago, he likened his... Read more ›
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At the moment, many in the tech industry have developed a rather profound addiction to Granola. No, not to the crunchy breakfast-time oats—but to a software product made by a two-year-old startup that has come to dominate a crowded field of artificial intelligence–powered note-taking options. The tool from Granola, which was valued at nearly a half-billion dollars in May, has become something of an It App this summer among venture... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium, have ended. Instead, Google will hire Windsurf’s CEO, Varun Mohan, and some of the startup’s staff, as well as pay for a nonexclusive license to Windsurf’s ... Read more ›
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We got big news this afternoon in the AI world, as we learned that OpenAI’s talks to buy Windsurf, maker of the popular Codeium AI coding assistant, have ended—and Google has hired Windsurf’s CEO and some staff. For more on this drama, see our story here. Lots of questions remain unanswered, including what these developments mean for Windsurf and its investors.Meanwhile, can you think of a more topical question than... Read more ›
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OpenAI has ended discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium. Instead, Google will hire Windsurf’s CEO and some staff, both Google and Windsurf said. The talks between OpenAI to buy the startup for $3 billion ended in recent days after Windsurf’s team raised concerns over how the coding assistant would fit into the OpenAI and Microsoft agreement, which requires OpenAI... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase sent pricing information to companies that help transfer consumer data between banks and fintech firms indicating it would start charging them millions of dollars worth of fees to access its customers’ bank account information, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday. The move ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has hired two more artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his aggressive push to recruit AI talent, after stumbles earlier this year. Allan Jabri and Lu Liu, who worked on multimodal AI at OpenAI, are joining Meta’s new AI ... Read more ›
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The main Department of Justice building, across from the National Archives in Washington, was the kind of brooding edifice Dylan Field had walked through a lot in 2023 as he tried to convince governments around the world to let him sell Figma, the design software startup that had been his life, to Adobe for $20 billion. He made a final attempt to win over the Justice Department in a December... Read more ›
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The startup behind Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, has shut down its entire China-based team, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. It’s the latest sign that Manus, whose biggest target market is ... Read more ›
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China’s Huawei Technologies is plotting a fundamental redesign of its next artificial intelligence chip in a bid to seize market share from Nvidia. The Chinese tech giant is working on a new AI chip design that would allow its chips to be used for a wider array of AI development work than its current ones can handle, according to two people with knowledge of the plan. That would bring Huawei’s... Read more ›
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Here’s a question: When was the last time anyone paid attention to a company’s annual shareholder meeting? More to the point, perhaps, when was the last time a company’s annual meeting really mattered? The answer to the first one (and maybe the second) is when a company drags its feet scheduling the meeting, as Tesla did—until today. On Wednesday, both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported... Read more ›
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When former Bain Capital Ventures partner Sarah Smith raised a $16 million fund to back early-stage startups earlier this year, she decided to use artificial intelligence to answer a question that venture capitalists say usually comes down to human instinct: Which founders are worth meeting?The Menlo Park, Calif.–based investor developed a screening system using Anthropic’s Claude, which she says she trusts with sensitive information over other models. The system helps... Read more ›
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