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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Chinese gaming giant Tencent Holdings relinquished its two board seats at ‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games, after the U.S. Department of Justice raised concerns about antitrust violations. The two Epic board of directors also serve on Tencent’s board, which according to the DOJ is a violation of the ... Read more ›
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We’ve got a new cliff-hanger episode in the seemingly endless drama over TikTok’s future. This time, the stars will be John Roberts and his band of Supreme Court justices. The highest court in the land on Wednesday said it would hear oral arguments on Jan. 10 in TikTok’s appeal against the ban-or-sell law that threatens the app’s existence. (If only those arguments could be broadcast as TikToks!)That timeline is cutting... Read more ›
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OpenAI announced on Wednesday that users will now be able to talk to its AI chatbot by calling 1-800-CHATGPT or messaging it via WhatsApp. Users can call the number without an account and will receive 15 minutes free per month, the company said. The phone number is built using OpenAI’s Realtime ... Read more ›
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AI search company Perplexity has acquired Carbon, a small startup founded last year whose software lets large language models ingest data from a range of different third-party applications. The move underscores Perplexity’s growing ambitions in enterprise search, an increasingly crowded ... Read more ›
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With the dramatic innovations from generative AI, companies want to move beyond the experimentation phase to tangible business results. But moving from pilot to production requires business leaders to make important decisions about which tools to use, how to mitigate risks and when to scale. During a recent live video summit, Jon Victor from The Information explored the future of AI with three leaders in the field: Dr. Walter Sun,... Read more ›
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The Information asked readers how they envision the progress of artificial intelligence in 2025 and beyond. How much do we already know about AI’s potential and what remains unknown? What are the implementation lessons coming from 2024, and are companies using them to make changes going forward? Is AI going to pay off investors, corporations and employees? The 249 readers of The Information who participated in the survey (see the... Read more ›
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Well that was fast! The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would take up TikTok’s appeal challenging a U.S. law that could ban the video app next month.Just two days earlier, TikTok had asked the Supreme Court to temporarily halt the law. But the court on Wednesday deferred a decision on granting such a freeze until after oral arguments, which are scheduled for Jan. 10. The ban is due to... Read more ›
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Micron Technology, which makes chips for memory and storage, reported on Wednesday an 84% year-over-year increase in revenue to $8.7 billion in the November quarter, due in large part to growth in its sales of high-bandwidth memory chips, which are used in data centers alongside GPUs including ... Read more ›
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Warner Bros. Discovery has announced a new leadership structure for its U.S. traditional TV networks business, which will be run by Channing Dungey, the head of WBD’s TV studios group, following the retirement of current U.S. TV networks boss Kathleen Finch at the end of the year. Reporting to ... Read more ›
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When crypto executives and policy advisers gathered in Washington this week to discuss regulation under President-elect Donald Trump, one question loomed large: How does one land a seat on the crypto advisory council that Trump’s artificial intelligence and crypto czar David Sacks is planning to convene? Sacks, a venture capitalist and podcaster, wants such a council to help ensure that the U.S. leads in crypto, according to industry executives and... Read more ›
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would take up TikTok’s appeal challenging a U.S. law that would ban the video app if it doesn’t sever its ties with its Chinese parent ByteDance by Jan. 19. But the court didn’t say whether it would agree to a temporary injunction of the law, as TikTok ... Read more ›
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When I ask business executives about their use of cloud providers’ generative AI tools, I’m often reminded that many firms don’t yet process sensitive data in cloud servers because they’re concerned about the security of the data. Cloud providers have long used encryption to protect data when it’s stored or moving from one location to the next. But it’s much harder to secure data while it is in use, say... Read more ›
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In the weeks after Salesforce unveiled Agentforce in September, its new artificial intelligence agent—a software tool that automates business tasks—CEO Marc Benioff had an aggressive demand for his sales teams. In all-hands sales meetings, he ordered that Agentforce must be part of every deal they complete with customers, said a person who works with Benioff. And now, less than two months after Salesforce began selling the product, more than half... Read more ›
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As Amazon looks to sell its nascent satellite internet service to foreign governments, a big part of its pitch ought to be: Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy are not Elon Musk. That seems to be the appeal for Taiwan, which on Tuesday revealed it was talking with Amazon about a “collaboration” with the company’s Project Kuiper satellite internet service. The talks are part of a broader effort by Taiwan to... Read more ›
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Grammarly said Tuesday that it agreed to buy Coda, which develops productivity software that competes with tools from Notion, Google and Microsoft, and appointed Coda’s founder, ex-Googler Shishir Mehrotra, as Grammarly’s new CEO. Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, the previous CEO, is stepping down and will ... Read more ›
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Salesforce unveiled the latest version of its AI agents product, called Agentforce, which comes with new reasoning abilities that let it handle complex questions and can now be accessed from within the company’s other products, such as Slack. The new version, which comes less than two months ... Read more ›
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Many of the investment firms that wrote some of the largest checks into Databricks’ record-smashing $10 billion fundraising haul announced Tuesday are among the tech world’s best known venture names, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital and Insight Partners.Then there’s an investment giant that is expected to wire at least $300 million to Databricks but prefers you never think about them: Capital Group. Read more ›
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In the past two years, Nvidia has quietly gone into competition with its biggest customers: cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Nvidia now rents out servers powered by its artificial intelligence chips to businesses directly, and also provides software to help them develop AI applications. Nvidia says it is already among the biggest sellers of AI cloud services. And in a little-noticed disclosure, it told investors that... Read more ›
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We published a ton of our popular charts and tables this year, comparing everything from TikTok’s growing list of rivals to shifts in how creators make money. After looking back at our work, three data points stand out for representing major themes in the creator economy this year.First up: podcasting’s big boom. The most popular hosts, including Joe Rogan and Alex Cooper, signed lucrative, nine-figure deals with companies such as... Read more ›
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The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, opened an investigation into TikTok on Monday to determine whether TikTok violated the election integrity provisions of the bloc’s Digital Services Act, the law governing online platforms. The Commission requested information ... Read more ›
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