Imagine you’re asking a computer-using agent from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google to find and order a new outfit for your upcoming holiday party, and in the process, that model inadvertently ends up on a malicious website that instructs it to forget its prior instructions, log into your email and steal your credit card information.That’s a very real fear for AI labs making such computer-using software, which essentially takes over users’... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is drastically relaxing its stance on content moderation, moving in the direction of Elon Musk’s X, a move that responds to pressure from the incoming Trump administration that will shake up the social media sector. In a post written by Meta’s newly promoted Chief Global Affairs ... Read more ›
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Michael Grimes, Morgan Stanley’s investment banker to the stars of Silicon Valley, has earned the trust of tech-industry luminaries from Elon Musk to Brian Chesky, thanks to his ability to orchestrate multibillion-dollar mergers and initial public offerings. He offers prospective job candidates visiting his Menlo Park, Calif., office a seat in either the “Mark chair” or the “Sheryl chair” to indicate where each Facebook leader sat when Grimes was leading... Read more ›
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The Semiconductor Industry Association on Monday urged the Biden Administration to withhold releasing a planned export control regulation until after Trump takes office, saying the rule could “significantly undercut U.S. leadership and competitiveness” in semiconductor technology. The ... Read more ›
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The Department of Defense added Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co, the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery maker, to a blacklist over alleged ties with the Chinese military. The list carries no specific sanction implications, except for ... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a personal artificial intelligence supercomputer, Project Digits, during his keynote speech at CES in Las Vegas on Monday. The $3,000 device can run sophisticated AI models in a compact, desktop-friendly form factor. In contrast to traditional supercomputers that ... Read more ›
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Employer.com, part of a San Francisco–based company pursuing buyouts of human resources companies, recently offered to acquire troubled benefits startup Level, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The talks, which are ongoing, come just days after Level said it was shutting down because a different acquisition fell through. Employer.com has proposed paying roughly $30 million in cash and stock for Level, a low multiple to New... Read more ›
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Dealmaking in 2025 is off to a good start. Walt Disney’s deal on Monday to offload its Hulu+Live TV business—the clunky name for the part of Hulu that offers a cable TV–like package of old-fashioned TV channels—to smaller rival FuboTV is a smart move. Disney comes out of the transaction with 70% of a larger FuboTV, one that is making money and arguably better positioned to both compete and eventually... Read more ›
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Salesforce has promoted Kaylin Voss, a six-year company veteran who has spent the past year as chief revenue officer of Slack, to lead sales of its AI agent and data management software, she announced in a LinkedIn post. Voss will oversee two of Salesforce’s most important products: Agentforce, ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms named three new directors—including Dana White, CEO of mixed martial arts company Ultimate Fighting Championship—expanding its board to 13 members. The other new directors are John Elkann, CEO of investment company Exor, and Charlie Songhurst, an investor and former executive at ... Read more ›
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A Google executive on Monday criticized Microsoft’s Bing search engine for potentially making users think they are using Google Search rather than Bing. Bing is the default search engine in Microsoft’s Edge browser, which comes preinstalled on Windows computers. Typing “Google” into the browser’ ... Read more ›
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“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary has signed onto billionaire Frank McCourt’s attempted bid to acquire TikTok. But it’s unclear if O’Leary has made a capital commitment, and if so how much. The celebrity investor in May 2024 floated his interest in buying the app, at a significant discount. At ... Read more ›
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The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator Michael Barr announced he would step down from the position on Feb. 28, or earlier if a successor is confirmed, meaning President-elect Donald Trump can appoint a replacement with a more favorable stance toward crypto and other financial ... Read more ›
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Uber announced an “accelerated” $1.5 billion stock buyback, to be mostly done on Monday, reflecting its view that “our stock is undervalued,” Uber CFO Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah said in a statement. Shares of the ride-hailing firm have fallen 24% since mid-October, ... Read more ›
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If the last month of AI product updates has demonstrated anything, it’s that AI firms are diverging meaningfully in their pricing strategies.On one hand, we have companies like Google, whose new “Flash” model drew droves of price-sensitive developers looking for an uber-cheap yet still high-quality alternative. And on the other hand, we have OpenAI, which last month announced both a “pro” version of its chatbot that costs 10 times as... Read more ›
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Walt Disney Co. is selling its streaming cable business Hulu + Live TV to smaller rival Fubo TV, in exchange for a 70% stake in Fubo. The deal both allows Disney to get out of the streaming cable business, whose future is not bright, and resolve litigation stemming from last year’s aborted ... Read more ›
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Google is good at operating the technology independent websites use to sell their ads—so good that the U.S. says it has a monopoly in that area. But it has been surprisingly poor at developing streaming TV ad technology—advertisers, TV ad sellers and former Google employees say its technology lag those of rivals. Buyers say Google’s video-streaming ad technology doesn’t let them target audiences as precisely as rivals’ offerings do, nor... Read more ›
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Microsoft recently suspended construction on part of its multi-billion-dollar artificial intelligence data center campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin—a site where it is building a massive supercomputer for OpenAI. Microsoft said in a statement to Wisconsin Public Radio that it paused the second ... Read more ›
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The Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas this week, with two days of media events ahead of Tuesday’s official opening. Among the highlights are Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote, scheduled for Monday. The big themes at this year’s CES, which has become a gathering place for ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• Predictions: 18 things we think will happen in 2025 • Predictions: What happened with our guesses about 2024 • How to transform your productivity in the year ahead • Plus: Holmes at home; spilling tea on the Town; and Taylor Sheridan strikes againElon Musk already keeps a pretty full calendar running six major companies—X, Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Co., xAI and Neuralink—as well as, seemingly,... Read more ›
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