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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Before we get to the rest of today’s newsletter, we have the latest update on TikTok. On Tuesday night, my colleague Sylvia and I reported TikTok’s plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a U.S. law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes.That news is causing quite a stir among creators, their managers and users of the app, who thought they’d still... Read more ›
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Digital news outlet Axios signed a content licensing agreement with OpenAI, the companies announced today. The partnership will allow OpenAI to train its models with free content from Axios national and local content, or stories the publication doesn’t put behind a paywall, a spokesperson from ... Read more ›
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Funding for U.S. creator economy startups roared back in 2024, buoyed in part by excitement about artificial intelligence, after two years of decline. At the same time, dozens of startups agreed to be acquired or shut down, signs that the industry is maturing. Last year, funding for U.S. creator economy startups rose 51% to more than $1.58 billion compared with 2023, according to new data from The Information’s Creator Economy... Read more ›
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In 2018—after I forgot to call my mom one too many times—a friend and I launched an app that nudges people to take life-enhancing steps such as connecting with family, exercising more and learning new skills. Today we have nearly 40,000 subscribers. Businesses and organizations across the country use our app to improve employees’ health and well-being. We’re proud of the business we’ve built. But we couldn’t have succeeded without... Read more ›
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Microsoft and Google both rolled out changes to how they bill corporate customers for AI software on Wednesday in an effort to drum up more AI revenue. Microsoft will start letting businesses pay for certain features within its enterprise-focused AI software on a consumption basis, rather than a ... Read more ›
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When it comes to the billion-dollar question of where businesses are seeing the biggest returns from conversational AI, automating software development has emerged as an early frontrunner. We have AI software to autocomplete lines of code, AI software to write entire apps, and soon, AI software to test other software.That last one is the focus of Ranger, a year-old startup that’s building AI software to run quality assurance tests for... Read more ›
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Marc Andreessen and other crypto proponents have complained about how regulators under President Joe Biden have choked off banking services for crypto firms. But even before Donald Trump takes office, some smaller U.S. banks have been quietly expanding services for crypto companies. In recent months, regional bank Western Alliance has been hiring staff to bring on more crypto clients, while Dart Bank, a Michigan community lender, recently jumped into crypto... Read more ›
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TikTok is preparing to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes to block the ban, The Information reported. Under the plan, people attempting to open the TikTok app in the U.S. will instead see a pop-up message ... Read more ›
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TikTok plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes to block the ban, according to two people familiar with TikTok’s plans. Abruptly switching off the app, rather than allowing people who have already downloaded it to continue using it, will bring home the impact of the ban to all TikTok’s users. Under the... Read more ›
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You might wonder, watching Mark Zuckerberg’s announcements of the past week, whether we’re witnessing a version of the Hollywood movie “Face/Off,” where the Meta Platforms CEO will shortly rip off a mask and reveal himself to be Elon Musk. Aside from Zuckerberg’s moves last week to abandon both diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and fact-checking in favor of a version of X’s “community notes,” and his talking up the value... Read more ›
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Visitors to Bryant Park in New York would have had a confusing sight on Tuesday afternoon: Hundreds of startup workers throwing graduation caps into the air and then ice skating in green gowns. That was the celebration cooked up by Industrious CEO Jamie Hodari to memorialize the sale of his co-working startup to $38 billion real estate giant CBRE, in a deal that valued the company at about $800 million,... Read more ›
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The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk in federal court in Washington, D.C., for not properly disclosing a major purchase of Twitter shares ahead of his takeover of the social media company, Bloomberg reported. In a statement, Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Musk, said Musk “has ... Read more ›
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American chip pioneer Intel is spinning off its corporate venture capital fund, Intel Capital, into a standalone investment fund, the company said Tuesday. Intel will remain as an investor in the new firm, which has been operating within the business for 30 years. The separation is still in ... Read more ›
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Brazil’s government said on Tuesday that Meta Platforms’ content policy changes last week don’t protect fundamental rights in the country and may lead to violations of laws forbidding some forms of hate speech, such as racial slurs, Reuters reported. Last week, Meta said it would end ... Read more ›
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Warner Bros. Discovery has appointed SoFi CEO Anthony Noto and IAC CEO Joey Levin to its board of directors, bringing the company’s total to 13 board members. WBD said Noto and Levin’s appointments bring two decades of executive experience in media, commerce, technology and mergers and ... Read more ›
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As we near Sunday’s effective date of a U.S. law that could ban TikTok, a growing number of U.S. TikTok users are joining another Chinese-owned social app: RedNote. The app, known as Xiaohongshu in Chinese, is similar to Instagram. The movement has helped turn RedNote into one of the most downloaded apps in the U.S. almost overnight. Some users said migrating to another Chinese-owned platform is a sarcastic move in... Read more ›
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Executives at software vendors and chief information officers who buy software are starting to agree on one thing: Artificial intelligence models are becoming far less important than the apps that harness them. Many prominent AI apps, including GitHub Copilot, Perplexity search, and Cursor’s coding assistant, previously relied almost entirely on OpenAI but now use models from multiple providers, either because the models are roughly equivalent or because they complement one... Read more ›
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In 2021, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella faced a choice involving the company’s Xbox and cloud gaming business. The company could either acquire major game studios to drive more subscriptions to its nascent Game Pass subscription service. Or it could wind down its games business entirely, Nadella told two people at the time. Nadella took the first path, acquiring Elder Scrolls maker Bethesda Studios for $7 billion in 2021 and Call... Read more ›
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The Biden administration signed an executive order to accelerate the development of at least six massive artificial intelligence data centers on federal land—an effort to ensure American companies remain global leaders in AI. The order, which comes one day after Biden published new controls on ... Read more ›
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The European Union is reassessing its probes into Apple, Meta, Google and other big tech companies, the Financial Times reported, a move that comes as U.S. tech executives press President-elect Donald Trump to intervene in European regulatory efforts. All decisions and potential fines are on ... Read more ›
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