Norway’s sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Tesla’s proposed $1 trillion CEO compensation package for Elon Musk, the fund said on Tuesday. Norges Bank said in a disclosure that it was “concerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk.” The ... Read more ›
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It’s been one month since TikTok briefly went offline in the U.S., and internal company comments and external data offer a picture of how the situation has impacted the short-form video app’s business. By some accounts, TikTok is doing pretty well.  American Users & Creators Read more ›
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Nike is launching a new brand of women’s athletic apparel in partnership with Skims, the Kim Kardashian-founded shapewear and apparel maker, Nike said Tuesday. The new brand will include women’s apparel, footwear and accessories and marks the first collaboration between Nike and an outside ... Read more ›
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Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer at OpenAI, announced her new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, in a blog post on Tuesday. The company will focus on AI research and product-building, with an emphasis on publishing research widely. It will aim to build AI that can understand and ... Read more ›
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Thousands of probationary employees across the Department of Health and Human Services received termination notices over the weekend, part of the mass cuts imposed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The firings began Friday, the day after Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed by the ... Read more ›
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A clip recently surfaced on Reddit showing OpenAI executives demonstrating a new ChatGPT feature in Japan. The video showed how ChatGPT’s “deep research” mode, part of a $200-a-month Pro subscription, could automatically sort through sales leads and determine which ones are worth contacting. It determines that by searching the web for data like a company’s revenue. ChatGPT would then email those companies’ representatives to set up a meeting.The rise of... Read more ›
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Even after a shakeout that’s lasted two years, consolidation is still coming for logistics startups. Forto, a Germany-based freight forwarding company that has raised more than $600 million from investors including SoftBank, has been working with investment bank Moelis & Co. to explore options including a potential merger or sale, according to a person involved in the discussions. Forto is the closest venture-backed rival to U.S.-based Flexport, which has been... Read more ›
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Amazon has shut down Inspire, a TikTok-style shopping feed inside its mobile app that it launched in 2022, according to messages to users and a company spokesperson. Users accessed the Inspire feed through a lightbulb-shaped icon in the navigation tab at the bottom of the Amazon app. The feed ... Read more ›
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The model race continues. On Monday evening, Elon Musk’s xAI released a new family of large language models, Grok 3, which includes a baseline model, a smaller and faster version of the baseline model, and two “reasoning” models.Early reactions seem promising. Andrej Karpathy, one of the cofounders of OpenAI who left the company last year, said on X that the reasoning version of Grok 3 performs around the level of... Read more ›
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Google scored a rare hit with an artificial intelligence–powered product last fall: NotebookLM, which helps people summarize documents, even generating podcasts from its results. The podcast feature drew a glowing review from The Wall Street Journal. After the product’s release, CEO Sundar Pichai praised the “small, dedicated team that built NotebookLM, an incredibly popular product that has so much promise.” But the path to launch wasn’t quite so smooth as... Read more ›
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A longtime Google researcher has joined TikTok owner ByteDance to help lead the Chinese company’s artificial intelligence research and development, in one of the Chinese tech giant’s most significant external hires of AI talent to date, according to two ByteDance employees with knowledge of the matter. Wu Yonghui, a 17-year Google veteran who was a vice president and one of the key researchers in charge of the U.S. company’s Gemini... Read more ›
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Safe Superintelligence, the startup launched by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise $1 billion in a round led by Greenoaks Capital Partners that would value the startup at $30 billion, Bloomberg reported. Sutskever founded the startup last year after leaving ... Read more ›
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Spotify is having a moment. The music-streaming pioneer recorded its first-ever annual profit in 2024, as a diversification into audiobooks and other new features brought in new subscribers and price hikes boosted revenues. So far this year, Spotify’s stock price has rocketed 43%, making it one of the best-performing tech stocks. But the surge in the paying-subscriber business hasn’t extended to the company’s relatively small advertising business, which Spotify had... Read more ›
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South Korea has suspended downloads of DeepSeek’s mobile app in the country, citing concerns about the way the app collects personal information. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission said Monday it had removed the DeepSeek app from local app stores since Saturday, pending an ... Read more ›
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WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging and social networking app in China, has started integrating DeepSeek’s open-source artificial intelligence model into its search function. Tencent said in a statement that it recently began testing a feature in Weixin, the domestic Chinese version ... Read more ›
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with some of the country’s biggest tech executives at a symposium in Beijing Monday, in a rare gathering between the private sector and the Chinese leader, according to state media reports. Xi “delivered an important speech” at the symposium, reported state-owned ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to take up its complaints about European regulations with President Trump, Meta’s global policy director Joel Kaplan said at a conference in Munich, Bloomberg reported. His comments are the latest sign that U.S. tech giants hope to use President Trump’s America-first ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms’ eyewear partner, EssilorLuxottica, plans to expand annual production capacity for the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to 10 million units by the end of next year, CEO Francesco Milleri said last week. Speaking on the company’s earnings call, Milleri also revealed that since the ... Read more ›
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Broadcom has joined TSMC in considering possible deals to buy part of Intel, the Wall Street Journal reported, the latest sign of the U.S. chipmaking icon’s steady decline. Last week officials within the Trump administration asked TSMC, which makes most of the world’s most advanced chips on ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Nuclear power could help tech solve its AI-driven electricity problem, if new reactors can actually get built.• Venture Bets: There’s a vibe shift in nuclear startup investing.• Clean Energy: Fusion, geothermal, solar. It’s not all about nuclear fission.• Plus, our Recommendations, messed-up love edition: A Lynch affair; Kafka for the ChatGPT generation and romance with a Scottish brogue.“This weekend feels like San... Read more ›
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Two big fintechs, banking app Chime and “buy now, pay later” firm Klarna, are getting ready to go public. While they were primping and polishing, they got a pleasant surprise from Washington this week: The Donald Trump administration effectively shut down the top consumer finance regulator. The shuttering of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could help the two companies—which offer lending products that received growing scrutiny from the agency in... Read more ›
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