Antitrust trials and tech businesses don’t mix well. As was the case with the government’s ad tech case against Google last year, as well as its case against Meta Platforms, which went to trial in a Washington courtroom today, the lawsuits typically rest on years-old snapshots of an industry that are about as current as a picture you took of your three-year-old who just celebrated their 21st birthday. Thus we... Read more ›
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Investors are on a health kick and looking for new ways to tap into fast-growing brands in the nutrition sector. That includes pouring money into startups selling supplements, particularly those that offer new ways for people to load up on vitamins, protein and other ingredients. The latest example is two-year-old gummy supplement startup Grüns, which raised fresh cash at an up to $500 million valuation in recent weeks, according to... Read more ›
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Monday that it had struck a deal with Palantir to buy artificial intelligence software that will improve the organization’s ability to process intelligence for military operations. Palantir stock rose 4.6% after the announcement Monday, compared with ... Read more ›
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Kodiak Robotics, a self-driving truck startup founded in 2018 by Google self-driving project alumnus Don Burnette, said Monday it will go public later this year via merger with special purpose acquisition company Ares Acquisition Corporation II. As part of the transaction, Kodiak will receive ... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Monday announced a new family of artificial intelligence models, GPT-4.1, specially trained for software developers, according to a blog post. The new models perform better than OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which was first released in May 2024, on coding, academic knowledge and following ... Read more ›
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Hugging Face, a nine-year-old startup that hosts open-source models and datasets for developers, has acquired Pollen Robotics, a 30-person robotics maker for an undisclosed sum, said a spokesperson for Hugging Face. Pollen, based in Bordeaux, France, earlier this year debuted the second ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg told colleagues in 2022 that Facebook losing “cultural relevance” was the biggest threat to the company’s future, regardless of the success of Instagram and WhatsApp, according to an email shown on Monday during an antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal ... Read more ›
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Nvidia’s AI chips will be made in the US for the first time, the company announced on Monday as a result of deals struck by the chip designer with its manufacturing partners TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor, and SPIL. Production will start at a TSMC factory in Arizona and a Wistron factory in ... Read more ›
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A lawyer representing the Federal Trade Commission told a federal judge in Washington on Monday that Meta Platforms had created a monopoly in social media that illegally crushed competition through its purchases of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. The lawyer, Daniel Matheson, was speaking ... Read more ›
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Even as artificial intelligence has made strides in summarizing research papers or solving mathematical problems, professionals in many fields still believed humans would be in charge of coming up with ideas for new discoveries. Now AI is getting good at such brainstorming, too. OpenAI is preparing to launch new AI models as soon as this week that can connect the dots between concepts from different fields to suggest new types... Read more ›
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Startups whose products evaluate artificial intelligence to make sure it isn’t making things up or delivering unsafe results, like Patronus and Braintrust, have caught the attention of investors. But previously undisclosed sales data from these and other startups selling evaluation software show corporate customers have been relatively slow to buy such tools. Take Weights & Biases, an eight-year-old startup that CoreWeave agreed to acquire for more than $1 billion last... Read more ›
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In the months after Donald Trump was elected president in November, Meta Platforms pulled out all the stops to get on his good side. So far though, it hasn’t helped its executives put an end to a long-running antitrust lawsuit that could potentially force Meta to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp. Barring an unlikely last-minute agreement between the two parties, a trial over that lawsuit will begin later this morning... Read more ›
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Intel is selling a 51% stake in its Altera chip unit to Silver Lake in a deal that values Altera at $8.75 billion, the companies announced. The valuation is about half the price that Intel paid to buy Altera in 2015. Altera makes reprogrammable chips, used in some AI applications. The deal will ... Read more ›
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China’s Ministry of Commerce said Sunday that the country urges the U.S. to “completely cancel” its reciprocal tariffs. The ministry said in a statement that the Trump administration’s recent decision to temporarily exempt some electronics including smartphones from tariff increases against ... Read more ›
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As Chinese exporters of consumer products face challenges due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, some of China’s biggest e-commerce companies are launching new initiatives to help export-oriented merchants sell their goods in the domestic market. JD.com, a major online retailer, on Friday ... Read more ›
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick indicated Sunday that the exemptions to smartphone and semiconductor imports announced by the Trump administration late Friday were only temporary. “All those products are going to come under semiconductors, and they’re going to have a special focus type of ... Read more ›
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The Trump Administration late Friday said it would exempt smartphones and certain electronics components from its “reciprocal” tariff increases that increased levies on some items from China to as much as 145%. In a message from the Customs and Border Protection agency, the administration ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Patrick Collison’s political philosophy could change America • The Top 5: The very best podcasting gear• A look inside the Breakthrough Prize gala • Plus, our Recommendations: An “All-In” alternative; the liberal hoax that fueled deep-state paranoia; and John le Carré meets Agatha ChristieCongrats on making it through one of the most volatile weeks in the history of global markets! To be... Read more ›
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When Ed Zitron launched his podcast “Better Offline” in 2024, a gift from the show’s publisher soon arrived at his Las Vegas home: an imposing seven-foot-tall black felt-clad box known as a VocalBooth. “It’s like a foam prison with lights inside it,” said Zitron. “It’s wonderful.” Nowadays, he steps inside the chamber usually once a week to “get pissed off for, like, an hour and a half”—meaning record an episode... Read more ›
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A dozen former OpenAI employees argued in a court brief filed Friday that OpenAI’s nonprofit should remain in control of the ChatGPT maker’s business. The document in support of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI includes former employees such as Daniel Kokotajlo and William Saunders ... Read more ›
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