Companies like YouTube, Snap and Quibi have all tried to make short original shows on social media work. Now, a second wave of attempts is coming. As Juro and I reported, TikTok is now considering adding TV-like dramas with minutes-long episodes, which have proven popular on its Chinese sister app Douyin. Read more âș
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Meta Platforms hired Clara Shih from Salesforce to run a newly created group building artificial intelligence tools for businesses. Shih, who quit as CEO of Salesforce AI last week, announced her hiring in a post on LinkedIn. The creation of the team and Shihâs hiring is a big step forward in ... Read more âș
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The Information is pleased to announce the hiring of three new reportersâSara Germano, Sri Muppidi and Catherine Perloffâas well as the return of veteran reporter Kevin McLaughlin. Sara Germano will join The Informationâs Weekend section from the Financial Times on Dec. 2, covering the business and future of sportsâwith a strong focus on womenâs sports. Germano is a veteran of this coverage. After attending Fordham University, she started working for... Read more âș
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Techies know well that coaxing a large language model to give you a good answer can feel a bit like tricking a toddler. Developers have been known to write, âif you donât give me the correct answer, I will be firedâ in their promptsâsuccessfully. That led to âprompt engineering,â a side hustle for techies who wanted to make easy money by writing and improving prompts for LLMs. Now, a host... Read more âș
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Microsoft will soon begin selling its first-ever desktop PC, the company said Tuesday. The $349 device, called the Windows 365 Link, is meant for enterprise customers and streams Windows from Microsoftâs cloud servers, rather than running the operating system on-device. The new device shows how ... Read more âș
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The media sector is a no-no for most investors. The exception is sports. As big investors including Ares Management, Apollo Global Management and RedBird Capital Partners pour money into sports teams and leagues, a spate of media startups is emerging to both cover the culture of sports and stream some games. Read more âș
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In tech, the story is going to be very much about the haves and have-nots over the next four years. Some tech firms will have juice with Donald Trump and some wonât. Trumpâs Sunday night announcement that Brendan Carr will lead the Federal Communications Commission is more bad news for Meta Platforms, which increasingly looks to be one of the biggest tech losers in the Trump victory. Carr has been... Read more âș
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President-elect Donald Trumpâs Trump Media & Technology Group is in advanced talks to buy Bakkt, the crypto marketplace backed by the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, in an all-share deal, the Financial Times reported. Shares of Bakkt surged 162% on Monday after the ... Read more âș
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The Department of Justice will ask a federal judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser to address its illegal search monopoly, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The Justice Department will also ask the judge, Amit Mehta, to force Google to license its search engine data and stop bundling its ... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs loss of Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and safety systems chief Lilian Weng has galvanized concern among some of the remaining women at the firm that the management isnât doing enough to promote and retain women, two people who have worked at the ChatGPT maker said. One female staffer circulated a memo to other women arguing that managers should do more to ensure that women and nonbinary staff who... Read more âș
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ServiceTitan, which sells software to help tradespeople such as plumbers, electricians and landscapers run their businesses, filed paperwork for an initial public offering. The filing showed that the companyâs revenue grew 31% to $614 million in the 12 months to January 2024 but lost $195 ... Read more âș
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Design software firm Canva has hired Zoom Videoâs longtime finance chief, Kelly Steckelberg, as its chief financial officer, filling a 10-month vacancy in which the company prioritized picking an executive who had taken a fast-growing company public. The hiring is important for Canvaâs ability to go public, although its co-founder in an interview said the company preferred to stay private in the near term to make product investments public investors... Read more âș
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Warner Bros. Discovery and the NBA have resolved their legal dispute over the leagueâs new TV and streaming live sports rights. In return, WBD and NBA have agreed to a new 11-year deal where WBD will get access to NBA game highlights and other content for its digital platforms, live sports ... Read more âș
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Goldman Sachs announced that it plans to spin off its digital-asset platform so that it will be âindustry-ownedâ in order to drive adoption. The platform, called GS DAP, which went live in early 2023, allows financial firms to create, trade and settle traditional assets such as bonds on ... Read more âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will serve as a co-chair for San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurieâs transition team, campaign officials said Monday. Altman will be one of seven co-chairs and three advisors who make up the 10-person team, and Altmanâs presence is the latest indicator from Lurie that the ... Read more âș
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Since the days of Alan Turing, artificial intelligence developers have been captivated by the prospect of AI powerful enough to improve itself. OpenAI, we recently reported, has already developed an internal AI âresearch assistantâ tool to help its researchers work faster, a possible first step in the development of AI that can conduct AI research on its own. Later this week, researchers at Model Evaluation and Threat Research, a nonprofit... Read more âș
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In China, one of the biggest names in tech is Kai-Fu Lee, a Taiwan native and a bestselling author who used to head Googleâs operations in the country. When Lee founded an artificial intelligence startup called 01.AI in Beijing in March last year, Chinese investors including Alibaba Group were so eager to back him that the startup became a unicorn just eight months later. But in the U.S., where Lee... Read more âș
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For the past two years, the crypto industry has griped that U.S. regulators are trying to kill it off by curbing its access to banks. That may change under President-elect Donald Trump. Executives and investors are hopeful that the new administration will tell banking regulators to allow banks to expand access to the crypto industry. That could help more startups get up and running and make it easier for firms... Read more âș
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Nvidia is grappling with new problems related to its much-anticipated Blackwell graphics processing units for artificial intelligence: How to prevent them from overheating when connected together in the customized server racks it has designed. In recent months, Nvidia has asked its ... Read more âș
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Nvidia is grappling with new problems related to its much-anticipated Blackwell graphics processing units for artificial intelligence: how to prevent them from overheating when connected together in the customized server racks it has designed. In recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of the racks several times as it has tried to overcome the overheating problems, according to Nvidia employees who have been working on the... Read more âș
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