Meta Platforms in October will stop political and social issues-related advertising in the European Union, the company said in a blog post on Friday. The social media giant said the move was in response to forthcoming regulation in the bloc about the transparency of political advertising. The ... Read more ›
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Oura CEO Tom Hale said that the health-tracking company crossed more than $500 million in annual revenue last year, and grew at more than 120 percent. “I think the smart ring category is really on fire and Oura’s leader in it,” he said in an exclusive interview with The Information ... Read more ›
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Tesla isn’t making Optimus humanoid robots fast enough to meet CEO Elon Musk’s goal of 5,000 by the end of this year, The Information reported on Friday. Inside Tesla, one hurdle to scaling up production is the company’s struggles with perfecting the Optimus hand. Still, Tesla this year has been ... Read more ›
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A couple weeks ago, LeBron James was in Las Vegas, seated courtside at the Thomas and Mack Center to watch his team, the Los Angeles Lakers, scrimmage against their crosstown rivals, the Clippers. The game was a highlight of the NBA’s annual off-season Summer League tournament, where rookies and rising stars—like James’ son, Bronny—gain playing experience, while starters get a first look at the young talent they’ll soon face on... Read more ›
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GPT-5 is almost here, and we’re hearing good things. The early reaction from at least one person who’s used the unreleased version was extremely positive.That’s good news for OpenAI. The ChatGPT creator has been under pressure to show major gains from its next big artificial intelligence model since we first broke the news last November that it had seen diminishing returns from using more computational resources and data during “pretraining.”... Read more ›
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Elon Musk says humanoid robots will be the future of Tesla. The company has a long way to go. Tesla is well behind the pace necessary to meet Musk’s publicly stated goal of producing at least 5,000 of its Optimus humanoid robots this year, according to two people with knowledge of the program. So far, the number of robots it has made is in the hundreds, one of the people... Read more ›
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Here’s a question: If Google was started today, would it have a search bar on its website separate from its artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini? I asked Gemini that question earlier today, and the chatbot thought that was “extremely unlikely” and that a “unified interface would be the almost certain choice.” As Gemini said, “the fundamental paradigm of how users interact with information has shifted. A company starting today would build... Read more ›
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On Intel’s second-quarter earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan made it clear that things are going to be different under his leadership than they have under his predecessor Pat Gelsinger. The biggest change is that Intel will only invest in building factories to manufacture chips for other ... Read more ›
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The Federal Communications Commission approved David Ellison’s purchase, through his company Skydance, of Paramount Global, moving the $8 billion deal a step closer to completion. Ellison had to navigate political hurdles to get the approval of the FCC, including by commiting in writing to “ ... Read more ›
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The NFL and ESPN are nearing a deal for the league to take a 10% stake in the Disney-owned sports media company, according to a report from CNBC. The terms could include ESPN taking ownership of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, two cable channels owned by the league. ESPN and the NFL have been ... Read more ›
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Benchmark general partner Victor Lazarte is leaving the blue-chip venture firm and is in the process of starting his own fund to back early-stage AI startups, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. He has already received capital commitments for the new fund and has an anchor ... Read more ›
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As TikTok’s future in the U.S. continues to be in limbo, the company is trying to quell a different regulatory threat north of the border.In November, the Canadian government told TikTok to wind down its operations in the country due to national security concerns, but curiously has allowed the app to remain available to the 14 million users in the country. The order means TikTok has to shut down its... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service experienced a global outage on Thursday afternoon, according to the company and reports from users and the world. Starlink’s X account said the service is “currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution.” The company did not ... Read more ›
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed recent layoffs of roughly 9,000 employees in an email to staff on Thursday, saying the cuts were necessary even though the company is “thriving.” “This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value,” Nadella said, implying that the ... Read more ›
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Venture capital firms are under pressure to make rapid-fire decisions about big checks in the frenzied world of artificial intelligence investing, straining partnerships that need a unified front. It helps sometimes to have just one decision-maker.That makes a case for Elad Gil, a prolific investor who made early investments in Perplexity, Harvey, Stripe and Airbnb. Gil is raising a fund of around $1.5 billion to back both young and mature... Read more ›
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While artificial intelligence-powered coding is jet fuel for developer productivity, a string of incidents in recent months shows why customers should tread carefully in this version of the Wild West. In the latest worrisome development, a hacker recently found a way to upload malicious code to an Amazon Web Services’ AI coding assistant, Q Developer, that ordered the software to delete data from customers’ computers.AWS says it has fixed the... Read more ›
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Crusoe, the startup behind the first data center for OpenAI’s $500 billion Stargate project, is seeking around $1 billion in new equity, The Information reported Wednesday. The firm is both a real estate developer that builds data centers for other companies and a cloud provider that rents out ... Read more ›
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Lyten, a tiny California battery startup, turned heads by snapping up assets from one of the industry’s most high-profile failures—but Lyten is now struggling itself. Lyten this week laid off its chief battery strategist, just three weeks after it bought a battery factory from bankrupt Northvolt. It also let go 45 of its 300 employees, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company appears to have made the... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump’s 23-page AI Action Plan, released on Wednesday, won’t transform the AI industry overnight, but it offers a sense of who stands to gain or lose under the current administration’s agenda. Big winners include those developing open-source models, such as Meta Platforms, while a requirement for plugging AI chip export loopholes could hurt Nvidia.For those who didn’t pay attention, the plan is designed to guide the Executive Branch’s... Read more ›
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Google’s and Meta Platforms’ unconventional multibillion-dollar deals to obtain artificial intelligence talent have dominated headlines in recent weeks. But large technology companies including Meta, Amazon, Nvidia, Snowflake and cloud provider CoreWeave have gone beyond recruiting talent: Each has recently acquired at least one AI startup for their technology. A pool of startups hasn’t raised capital in a while and could be primed for a takeover by large acquirers or other... Read more ›
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