Norwayâs sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Teslaâs proposed $1 trillion CEO compensation package for Elon Musk, the fund said on Tuesday. Norges Bank said in a disclosure that it was âconcerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk.â The ... Read more âș
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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, youâd be wrong: Itâs Sabrina Ionescu, starting point guard for the WNBA champion New York Liberty. Indeed, sales of Ionescuâs unisex Nike shoesâthe Sabrinasâquintupled over the 12 months ending in August, making it one of the fastest-growing brands at... Read more âș
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Amazonâs 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 thatâs controlled ... Read more âș
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Netflix has secured the U.S. rights to exclusively stream the 2027 and 2031 FIFA Womenâs World Cups, a major step forward in the video giantâs 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 âș
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Shopify, the Canadian-based e-commerce software giant, is walking a tightrope. The company has growing ambitions to promote its own software, such as its Shop Pay branded checkout, which appears on many of its 2 million merchantsâ sites. Those goals are beginning to clash with the interests of the small software firms that historically have provided the add-on software tools Shopify offers its merchants. Read more âș
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OpenAI is currently prepping the next generation of its o1 reasoning model, which takes more time to âthinkâ about questions users give it before responding, according to two people with knowledge of the effort. However, due to a potential copyright or trademark conflict with O2, a British ... Read more âș
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Hereâs an idea. Instead of Donald Trump letting Elon Musk crash every dinner and phone call Trump has with tech CEOs, how about he invites Apple CEO Tim Cook and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg to jointly dine with him? Maybe the incoming president could sort out the two companiesâ differences.Tensions between Apple and Meta date back a while, of course, but Appleâs diatribe against Meta this week was particularly... Read more âș
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Ćura, the smart ring maker, raised $200 million in a series D funding round with participation from Fidelity Management & Research Company and Dexcom, the company said Thursday. The funding values the company at $5.2 billion, up from $2.55 billion in 2022. As part of the Series D, Ćura last ... Read more âș
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Google on Tuesday released a new artificial intelligence model that aims to automate more complex tasks by spending a longer time processing a personâs instructions, known as reasoning. The launch comes several months after OpenAI pioneered a reasoning model of its own, o1, for which it charges ... Read more âș
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I spent Tuesday afternoon at the White Houseâs holiday party for influencers. It was packed: more than 500 attendees mingled over spiked eggnog and cocktail shrimp, including hip-hop artist Flava Flav, comedian Keegan-Michael Key, reality TV star turned podcaster Harry Jowseyâand of course, the Bidens. Tuesday's party, the second year the Biden administrationâs Office of Digital Strategy hosted a holiday fest for creators and others working in the industry, was... Read more âș
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President-elect Donald Trump had dinner with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, the New York Times reported. Musk wasnât expected to be part of the dinner but joined after it had already begun, according to the report. The Times did not report what the trio discussed. Earlier ... Read more âș
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Alec Radford, an OpenAI researcher who helped develop some of its most important artificial intelligence, on Thursday told colleagues he was leaving to pursue research independently. Radford said he planned to collaborate with OpenAI as well as other AI developers, according to a person who ... Read more âș
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Google is making one of its biggest moves yet to bring conversational answers into its search engine, a response to artificial intelligence rivals that have attracted users by providing such answers rather than a list of website links. The company is planning to give its billions of search users the option to switch to an AI Mode that looks nearly identical to its Gemini AI chatbot, according to a person... Read more âș
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Apple has criticized Meta Platforms for making a large number of requests to access Appleâs âsensitive technologiesâ within its mobile operating system iOS, warning that such requests could allow Meta to read iPhone ownersâ emails and messages. Meta made the requests under a rule ... Read more âș
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Fintech banking startup Chime Financial has filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering, Bloomberg reported. Chime declined to comment. The company, which has long been planning to go public next year, offers fee-free digital banking sources. The company was valued at $25 billion ... Read more âș
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Accel, a blue-blood of Sand Hill Road, is thinking smaller.The firm publicly filed Thursday that it has raised $1.35 billion for its latest growth fund to invest in mature startups. Thatâs nearly a quarter less than the $1.75 billion it raised for its last growth fund in 2021.The smaller fund is a tacit admission by one of the industryâs leaders of the challenges facing scores of venture capital firmsâthat there... Read more âș
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Apple is in early talks with Tencent and ByteDance about using its artificial intelligence models in iPhones sold in China, Reuters reported. China has tight rules over AI, making it challenging for foreign companies to operate their AI models in the country without regulatory approval. So ... Read more âș
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Workers at seven U.S. Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said. The striking workers include some warehouse staff employed by Amazon, as well as delivery drivers that Amazon says are not its employees. The strikes affect Amazon facilities in New ... Read more âș
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Apple is nearing a deal with the Indonesian government to lift a ban on sales of the iPhone 16 that went into effect in late October, Bloomberg reported. While Appleâs sales in Indonesia are modest when compared with the U.S., Europe, and China, the Southeast Asian countryâs status as the fourth ... Read more âș
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Lately, AI developer Anthropic has been riding high, with its modelsâ impressive performance on tasks like code generation helping it to poach customers from its larger rival, OpenAI. What many people havenât realized, though, is how Anthropic might be disadvantaged in the upcoming Trump era.Anthropic has connections to the effective altruism movement, which emphasizes the dangers of AI over short-term profit or productivity benefits. These positions could rub President-elect Donald... Read more âș
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To figure out how its advanced artificial intelligence chips are ending up in China in violation of U.S. export laws, chip giant Nvidia has turned to companies like Super Micro Computer for answers. Nvidia generally doesnât sell its chips directly to customers, relying instead on specialized dealers and server companies like Supermicro, as the company is also known, to do so. Thatâs why Nvidia recently asked Supermicro to conduct spot... Read more âș
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