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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President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday added to the ranks of his tech and science advisors, including nominating a longtime AI advisor, Michael Kratsios, to run the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. In addition, Trump said Bo Hines, a 29-year-old North Carolina Republican, ... Read more ›
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As Elon Musk plays a growing role in Washington, President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday wanted to remind Americans who the top boss is. “No, [Musk is] not going to be president, that I can tell you,” Trump told an audience of conservatives at a conference in Arizona. He further dismissed the ... Read more ›
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Palantir and Anduril are part of a group of defense and technology companies that may join forces to bid for government contracts that traditionally go to older blue chip firms. The consortium could also include SpaceX, OpenAI, billionaire Alexandr Wang’s ScaleAI and Saronic, a maker of ... Read more ›
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NSO Group, the Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware, violated U.S. federal and state laws when it hacked WhatsApp to surveil more than 1,000 users of the messaging app in 2019, a federal judge ruled on Friday. The decision is seen as a major win for cybersecurity activists who have raised ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! This edition of Weekend is especially exciting: It marks the debut of a new coverage area for us and the arrival to The Information of a talented reporter. Sara Germano, a veteran of the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, has joined Weekend to helm The Arena, Weekend’s new franchise devoted to covering the business and future of sports—particularly women’s sports, a source of major growth and... Read more ›
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Before Marc Andreessen slid into Andy Ayrey’s life, Ayrey’s artificial intelligence experiments were a quirky passion project. Ayrey, an artist and web designer who lives in rural New Zealand, likes to tinker with large language models and see what he can build with them. His favorite creation is a mischievous troll of an AI bot, Truth Terminal, which he released last spring on X to post shock humor, memes and... Read more ›
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Google on Friday proposed that it be required only to tweak its default distribution contracts with companies like Apple and Samsung in order to remedy what a federal court has ruled is an illegal monopoly in search. This proposal is a far lighter punishment than the remedy put forward by the ... Read more ›
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After a two-year court battle, a federal jury largely ruled in favor of Qualcomm in an intellectual property dispute with Arm Holdings. Arm, which licenses its chip designs to companies such as Qualcomm and Apple, claimed that Qualcomm had improperly used intellectual property that Arm licensed ... Read more ›
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Tether, the world’s biggest stablecoin issuer, said it agreed to make a strategic investment of $775 million in Rumble, the publicly-listed video platform that’s an alternative to YouTube and popular on the political right. Shares of Rumble jumped more than 40% post-market on Friday. The company ... Read more ›
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Netflix shareholders may be a happy bunch right now, after the bonanza year the video-streaming stock has enjoyed. Though its revenue is growing at a decent but unspectacular clip—15% in the third quarter—its shares have so far risen 87% this year to above $900 a share. Since their low point in mid-2022, during a freakout about Netflix’s subscriber stall, the stock has soared more than 440%. Given how badly every... Read more ›
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The robotics team at Google DeepMind will partner with Apptronik, which develops humanoid robots that walk on two legs, the companies announced Thursday. The partnership brings together Apptronik’s robot hardware with DeepMind’s artificial intelligence, which enables robots to make plans and ... Read more ›
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Bullish, the crypto exchange that owns CoinDesk, abruptly dismissed three top editors, including editor-in-chief Kevin Reynolds, after forcing the publication to remove an article about crypto billionaire Justin Sun, Fortune reported. Reynolds’ deputies, Nick Baker and Marc Hochstein were also ... Read more ›
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The UK data regulator criticized Google for a change to its ads policy that the regulator says will make it easier for brands using Google’s advertising technology to track users without their consent. Earlier this week, Google announced a new ad policy that allows Google’s advertisers to track ... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Friday announced the next generation of its o1 reasoning model, which takes more time to “think” about questions users give it before responding. The model is called “o3.” OpenAI had to skip “o2” due to a potential copyright or trademark conflict with O2, a British telecommunications ... Read more ›
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Shivakumar Venkataraman, OpenAI’s search chief, has departed, seven months after joining the company to help lead the development of search and artificial intelligence for enterprise customers. The departure, which Venkataraman and OpenAI confirmed, comes days after OpenAI made web ... Read more ›
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Google has hired more than 100 staffers at augmented reality firm Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google’s work on its new Android XR operating system, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. The unusual arrangement, which Magic Leap’s senior vice president of product, Jade Meskill, confirmed, will give Google a boost in staffing as it battles Meta Platforms in the race to establish the leading... Read more ›
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued payments network Zelle and three of the banks that operate and own it, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, for allegedly failing to prevent widespread fraud on the platform. The CFPB said customers of the three banks had lost more than $870 ... Read more ›
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A pop quiz: Which living basketball player has the most-worn signature sneaker in the NBA this season? If you guessed perennial All-Stars like LeBron James, Kevin Durant or even Michael Jordan, you’d be wrong: It’s Sabrina Ionescu, starting point guard for the WNBA champion New York Liberty. Indeed, sales of Ionescu’s unisex Nike shoes—the Sabrinas—quintupled over the 12 months ending in August, making it one of the fastest-growing brands at... Read more ›
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Amazon’s purchase of MGM gave it ownership of the James Bond franchise, but clashes with the family that has creative control of the films have repeatedly delayed any plans for a new movie, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Barbara Broccoli, the leader of the family that’s controlled ... Read more ›
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Netflix has secured the U.S. rights to exclusively stream the 2027 and 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cups, a major step forward in the video giant’s expansion into live sports. This is the first time Netflix has bought out all of the rights in the U.S. on a specific tournament. Netflix and FIFA did ... Read more ›
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