Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:⢠The Big Read: The tech elite are using AI to supercharge their cancer battles ⢠Artificial Intelligence: Should AI and Christianity mix? ⢠Tech Culture: Amid AI backlash, billionaires demand new breed of bodyguardâplus, inside the star-studded Breakthrough Prize gala ⢠Plus, Recommendationsâour weekly pop culture picks: âFamily Lore,â âThe Long Runâ and âScream 7âLetâs get straight to one of the biggest happenings at Google... Read more âş
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When invading a hostile territory or testing a new AI service, itâs best to move quietly and steal a march on your opponents. Google appears to have learned that lesson. Itâs now possible, if youâve got its latest Pixel or Samsung phones, to ask the Gemini app to order an Uber or a meal on DoorDash. I tried it today and it worked flawlessly, if slowly. (I ordered paper towels... Read more âş
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Leonid Radvinsky, who bought a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018, died of cancer Monday. The 43-year old billionaire owned Fenix International, the London-based parent company of OnlyFans, a subscription site best known for hosting sexually explicit creators and content. Before his death, he ... Read more âş
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday he would leave the board of fusion startup Helion Energy, a company he has backed since 2015. OpenAI is in talks to buy electricity from Helion Energy, according to Axios. âAs Helion and OpenAI start to explore working together at significant scale, it is ... Read more âş
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Meta Platforms has hired the founders and team behind artificial intelligence agent startup Dreamer. Dreamer co-founders Hugo Barra, David Singleton, and Nicholas Jitkoff will join Metaâs Superintelligence Labs group, Singleton announced in a post on X. As part of the move, Dreamer will license ... Read more âş
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U.S. senators are introducing bipartisan legislation to ban prediction markets from offering sports-related contracts, the first bill seeking to regulate fast-growing platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket US. Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California and Republican Senator John Curtis of Utah ... Read more âş
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Nvidia faces growing competition in the AI chip market. But the chip designer has found a way to make money even from its rivalsâ chips. During its annual GTC developer conference last week, the company unveiled a new server rack designed to run chips made either by Nvidia or by its rivals. The new racks include networking technology that connects the chips on each rack, ensuring that they can communicate... Read more âş
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Software engineers embracing the AI coding revolution donât have much loyalty to any particular coding tool, especially when a new, better one comes out. In the latest example of that, hundreds of engineers at Notion, a maker of popular task-management software, are abandoning coding tool Cursor for Anthropicâs Claude Code and OpenAIâs Codex, according to a person involved in the change.The switch at Notion is part of a broader trend,... Read more âş
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OpenAI is hiring former Meta Platforms ad executive Dave Dugan as vice president in charge of global ad solutions, Dugan announced Monday on LinkedIn. Dugan had spent more than a decade as an ad sales executive at Meta. Duganâs hiring comes as OpenAI is trying to scale its ads business, which ... Read more âş
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OpenAIâs abrupt shopping pullback earlier this month didnât just raise questions about its decision-making. It also affected several commerce and payments firms, including PayPal and Etsy, that have put in work to help the ChatGPT maker expand the high-profile shopping venture and are now in limbo as it sorts out whatâs next. And in the case of PayPal, it had also announced spending money on OpenAIâs technology as part of... Read more âş
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Chinese robotics startup Unitree, one of the worldâs largest humanoid makers, has filed for an initial public offering in Shanghai, looking to raise 4.2 billion yuan ($610 million). In the filing submitted on Friday, Hangzhou-based Unitree disclosed that its operating revenue last year more than ... Read more âş
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Memo to software executives: Now is the time to radically reduce the amount of stock you give employees. That would win you some favor with investors, whoâve generally gone off your sector thanks to worries about the threat posed by AI. Even if those concerns are overblown, cutting costs in the face of a major disruption is a smart idea.Itâs no secret that software companies overdo stock compensation compared with... Read more âş
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Elon Musk said Tesla and SpaceX will build a âTerafabâ together in Austin that will design and manufacture semiconductors for both companies, though he did not provide a timeline for the project. The factory, located near Teslaâs current Austin headquarters, will eventually produce two series of ... Read more âş
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This year hasnât lived up to the high expectations of the bankers and lawyers that advise tech companies on acquisitions. One major culprit is fear of AI-driven irrelevance, which has paralyzed corporate CEOs, according to some bankers and lawyers gathered in New Orleans for the annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute conference. âI have a lot of clients who are not doing M&A right now because of all the uncertainty around... Read more âş
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As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech firms or with its own ad management system. So far, advertisers that bought the first ad campaigns on ChatGPT... Read more âş
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OpenAI expects to increase its headcount to around 8,000 employees by year end, up from about 4,500 employees, according to a person familiar with the plans. The hiring plans come as it shifts some of its resources from new initiatives to focus on its flagship ChatGPT as well as its coding ... Read more âş
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:⢠The Big Read: A rising star at Microsoft has a challenging new job⢠Defense Tech: Andurilâs big bet? An Ohio weapons factory ⢠Tech Culture: Fat with funding, AI startups binge on private parties⢠Plus, Recommendationsâour weekly pop culture picks: âBlood Will Tellâ; âThe Complexâ and âThis Is Where the Serpent Livesâ; and âTrain DreamsâAt the moment, I might describe the difference in AI enthusiasm... Read more âş
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Around the time last fall that Vercel tripled its valuation to $9 billion, the startup decided to throw a swank dinner party. It was a chance for Malte Ubl, the companyâs chief technology officer, to talk shop and discuss the fast-changing landscape with a dozen so other Silicon Valley executivesâand an opportunity for Vercel, a 10-year-old company that sells a platform for developing AI apps and websites, to show off.... Read more âş
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Just past the soybean farms in Pickaway County, Ohio, stands a flat-roofed building clad in blue and gray panels, with John Deere tractors near the entrance and hard hatâwearing construction workers busily laying pipes in the ground. The 866,000-square-foot factory isnât much to beholdâit looks like any of the many humble industrial warehouses that line the roads near Rickenbacker International Airport, a Midwest cargo hub. But the company behind the... Read more âş
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Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store. The deal never happened. Instead, a couple months after the talks ended, Apple began recruiting Sebastiaan de With, Luxâs co-founder and designerâa revelation to the startupâs CEO, Ben Sandofsky, who learned of it while investigating de With late last year over... Read more âş
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Anthropic filed a brief on Friday showing how close the Department of Defense was to reaching an agreement with it about using its artificial intelligence even after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Feb. 27 said he would direct the agency to declare the company a supply chain risk. Anthropic ... Read more âş
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