Kelly Weld didn’t know what to expect when she finally managed to unlock her son’s iPhone in February 2023. Still, she had hoped to find an answer as to why the then-16-year-old had recently started failing classes, skipping school and acting out at their home in central Florida. She found a disturbing explanation in his web-browsing history: For almost two years, her son had been having sex with adult men... Read more ›
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Amazon has removed language about its diversity, equity and inclusion goals, as well as its support for transgender employees, from its corporate website, The Information reported on Friday. It’s the latest example of a big tech firm tacking right following Donald Trump’s victory in the ... Read more ›
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Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney’s ESPN have called off plans to launch Venu, a live sports streaming service. Venu Sports, the joint venture that would have overseen the streaming service, will discontinue operations, the three companies said in a joint statement on Friday. “In an ... Read more ›
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Like most big technology companies, Amazon began publishing pages and blog posts on its corporate website in recent years declaring its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion along with other issues. Over the past few weeks, though, some of those webpages have been undergoing curious makeovers—or disappearing altogether. For example, a page outlining Amazon’s stances on a variety of political issues as recently as mid-December mentioned that the company would... Read more ›
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Amazon’s decision to stuff its search results and product pages with ads over the past several years might annoy some shoppers like me, but it’s paid off handsomely for the company. Those ads are thought to account for the lion’s share of the $50 billion in ad revenue it is expected to have taken in last year. Now Amazon is going to start selling the technology behind the ads to... Read more ›
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Five-year-old Wiz, a $16 billion–valuation startup that sells cloud cybersecurity software to large companies, has always had a flair for the dramatic. A few years ago, CEO Assaf Rappaport declared it the fastest-growing software company ever. In 2023, it openly mulled a takeover of larger, publicly held SentinelOne. And last year Wiz told its employees it was turning down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Alphabet—a rich offer to reject.So... Read more ›
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I’m in Washington D.C. ahead of oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Friday morning, where TikTok will argue against a U.S. law that could ban the app in 10 days if it doesn’t sever ties with its Chinese parent ByteDance.  Despite this threat, TikTok is pushing forward as normal—so much so that this week at the major tech conference CES in Las Vegas, TikTok executives held a panel where... Read more ›
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SoftBank and its Arm Holdings chip design subsidiary are considering an acquisition of Ampere Computing, a server chip design startup led by former Intel executive Renée James, Bloomberg reported. The acquisition interest reflects SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son’s desire to make Arm the main focus of ... Read more ›
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Amazon is exploring creating more news programming after it aired a live U.S. Election Night special hosted by veteran news anchor Brian Williams last November, according to Variety. While the talks are early, the streaming video giant is reportedly interested in creating more news specials tied ... Read more ›
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Fast-growing human resources and payroll startup Deel has been dragged into a dispute involving a Florida Ponzi scheme, in the latest legal action connecting the firm to fraudulent or illegal movement of money. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida last week, Deel was accused of transferring money for a Ponzi operation the Securities and Exchange Commission says ripped off elderly church members. The complaint, filed by the... Read more ›
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Conversational AI startup Cohere unveiled a preview of North, a new product that marries its large language models and search models to help corporate users work faster, co-founder and CEO Aidan Gomez said in a blog post. The Information reported last month that Cohere was working on such a ... Read more ›
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If there’s one thing artificial intelligence sellers learned in 2024, it’s that customers want AI to be a cinch to set up. Businesses are even willing to pay a premium and take their chances with AI models or chatbots like ChatGPT that have fewer built-in security features than they’re used to—as long as they just work out of the box.That explains why OpenAI and Anthropic each grew revenue 500% or... Read more ›
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The Information is pleased to announce that Ken Brown is joining The Information as senior finance editor. Ken’s name is synonymous with in-depth financial reporting about the biggest business stories of our time. As an editor at the Wall Street Journal, he has overseen investigative teams devoted to breaking news on financial scams, corporate bad behavior, private equity and cryptocurrency. As Money & Investing editor, he oversaw the Journal’s coverage... Read more ›
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Amazon has built a massive advertising business by charging merchants to promote their product listings on its site. Now, Amazon wants to sell the technology behind its ad business to other e-commerce companies. A new product, called Amazon Retail Ad Service, will let outside retailers use ... Read more ›
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Cybersecurity startup Wiz ended its long search for a chief financial officer with its appointment Thursday of Fazal Merchant, a former executive at Dreamworks and Tanium. The hiring of Merchant, who will also serve as the company’s president, puts the company on track for an initial public ... Read more ›
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Project Liberty, the organization founded by billionaire Frank McCourt, on Thursday said it submitted a formal proposal to acquire TikTok’s U.S. assets. McCourt said the offer would keep the short-form video app, which has 170 million monthly users in the U.S., alive in the country without using ... Read more ›
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One of the rarest resources in artificial intelligence—perhaps even more than Nvidia servers or training data—is the people who make it. Founders tell me that the shortage of talent that can develop and improve language and vision models is still extreme, two years into the conversational AI boom.That’s demonstrated by recent developments at startup Voyage AI, which Databricks and Snowflake both recently discussed buying—mostly because of the value of its... Read more ›
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The business world is watching to see whether the Supreme Court—or possibly Donald Trump—saves TikTok. But another man may be more important to the app’s fate: Zhang Yiming, the elusive founder of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. Zhang holds supervoting shares that give him effective control over ByteDance and its businesses, according to investors and former executives, even though he doesn’t sit on the board of the company. That means he... Read more ›
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Bluesky, an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, is in talks to raise money at a $700 million valuation in a round led by Bain Capital Ventures, Business Insider reported. The new funding, if completed, would follow a jump in users after Musk successfully campaigned for Donald Trump in last year’s ... Read more ›
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If ever there was a moment for Alphabet to spin off Waymo, it would be now. Optimism about self-driving cars is back, driven (sorry for the pun!) by the very real success Waymo is having with its robotaxi service in markets like San Francisco. Elon Musk’s high-profile presentation last fall about Tesla’s robotaxi plans has surely fueled the new energy. The upbeat sentiment was palpable this week at the Consumer... Read more ›
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