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 ›
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Cybersecurity startup Wiz ended its long search for a chief financial officer with its appointment Thursday of Fazal Merchant, a former executive at Dreamworks and Tanium. The hiring of Merchant, who will also serve as the company’s president, puts the company on track for an initial public ... Read more ›
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Project Liberty, the organization founded by billionaire Frank McCourt, on Thursday said it submitted a formal proposal to acquire TikTok’s U.S. assets. McCourt said the offer would keep the short-form video app, which has 170 million monthly users in the U.S., alive in the country without using ... Read more ›
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One of the rarest resources in artificial intelligence—perhaps even more than Nvidia servers or training data—is the people who make it. Founders tell me that the shortage of talent that can develop and improve language and vision models is still extreme, two years into the conversational AI boom.That’s demonstrated by recent developments at startup Voyage AI, which Databricks and Snowflake both recently discussed buying—mostly because of the value of its... Read more ›
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The business world is watching to see whether the Supreme Court—or possibly Donald Trump—saves TikTok. But another man may be more important to the app’s fate: Zhang Yiming, the elusive founder of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. Zhang holds supervoting shares that give him effective control over ByteDance and its businesses, according to investors and former executives, even though he doesn’t sit on the board of the company. That means he... Read more ›
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Bluesky, an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, is in talks to raise money at a $700 million valuation in a round led by Bain Capital Ventures, Business Insider reported. The new funding, if completed, would follow a jump in users after Musk successfully campaigned for Donald Trump in last year’s ... Read more ›
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If ever there was a moment for Alphabet to spin off Waymo, it would be now. Optimism about self-driving cars is back, driven (sorry for the pun!) by the very real success Waymo is having with its robotaxi service in markets like San Francisco. Elon Musk’s high-profile presentation last fall about Tesla’s robotaxi plans has surely fueled the new energy. The upbeat sentiment was palpable this week at the Consumer... Read more ›
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Employees of Meta Platforms and European regulators criticized changes to the company’s content policies announced Tuesday. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta would end its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S., take less action on content that might violate its policies and recommend more ... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden’s administration is planning to make one last set of sweeping restrictions on the sale of Nvidia’s vaunted artificial intelligence chips before Biden leaves office later this month, Bloomberg reported. The new rules may aim to block sales to adversary countries ... Read more ›
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Creators sometimes have trouble sifting through their vast libraries of videos to find a specific clip or sponsorship. A new artificial intelligence startup is developing new products to quickly surface those visual moments.IJW, which stands for It Just Works, plans to unveil its first offering, StarZero, on Sunday at the 1 Billion Followers Summit, a creator conference in Dubai. Read more ›
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Google Cloud has appointed Francis deSouza, a software industry veteran and former senior executive at cybersecurity provider Symantec, to serve as its chief operating officer, he announced in a LinkedIn post. This is the latest sign of both the growing maturity of Google Cloud’s business ... Read more ›
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Microsoft is planning to cut less than 1% of its 228,000 employees in the coming months, according to someone briefed on the plans. The layoffs will be based on performance and are likely to affect divisions across the company, this person said. The news of the layoffs were first reported by ... Read more ›
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LAS VEGAS—Donald Trump takes office in less than two weeks, vowing to impose a new round of tariffs on imports—particularly those coming from China. And yet Chinese electronics makers—including those in cutting-edge industries like clean energy, artificial intelligence, robotics and electric vehicles—are out in full force at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, pitching their products as though nothing was amiss. More than 1,200 of the roughly 4,500... Read more ›
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Well that didn’t take long! We’re barely a week into the new year and already we’ve reported that Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new funding at a $60 billion post-investment valuation. Lightspeed Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that’s also backed rival AI developers including Mistral, Stability AI and Cartesia, is set to lead the deal.That valuation is not cheap, even by AI standards. Anthropic recently... Read more ›
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The livestreaming e-commerce platform Whatnot raised $265 million in new funding, boosting its valuation to $4.97 billion. Greycroft Partners, DST Global and Avra, the investment firm founded by former Y Combinator growth investor Anu Hariharan, led the funding round. The company was last valued ... Read more ›
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Telehealth companies including Hims & Hers, Sesame and Noom have flocked to Facebook and Instagram to promote their booming weight loss drugs. But pressure from regulators concerned about consumers’ health data privacy has prompted Meta Platforms to limit how advertisers target users with health-related ads, starting this month. That is upending weight loss campaigns in the middle of the New Year’s resolution marketing season. And more broadly, marketers are scrambling... Read more ›
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Global investments in startups rose 5% to $368.5 billion last year after falling the prior year, according to PitchBook. Investments are down sharply from a high of $751.5 billion in 2021. At the same time, the number of startup investments fell 18% to 35,686 last year, the lowest since 2017. ... Read more ›
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The year is just a week old and already things are getting shaken up. Meta Platforms’ announcement on Tuesday that it was eliminating its fact-checking program in favor of an X-like community notes feature is a seismic event for social media. No longer will Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, try to pretend it has a monopoly on truth. Instead, Meta will leave it to members of the public... Read more ›
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We’re in a new year, but the major headline in venture capital is the same: It’s all about megadeals for artificial intelligence startups. Lightspeed Venture Partners is expected to lead a $2 billion round of funding for Anthropic at a $60 billion valuation, Stephanie confirmed. The new funding, at a higher valuation than we reported four months ago, would give Anthropic more firepower to take on well-heeled OpenAI. Already, Anthropic... Read more ›
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These are not golden days for the individuals working in the trust and safety teams of social apps.  Late last year, we reported on the fights within TikTok to make the app more appealing for President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters in which the company’s lobbying arm prevailed over its content moderation staff. Then on Tuesday, Meta Platforms’ CEO Mark Zuckerberg went a step further, ending Meta’s fact-checking program run... Read more ›
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U.K. lawmakers grilled bargain sellers Shein and Temu in a hearing Tuesday, pressing for answers about the potential use of forced labor in their supply chains as part of a broader government inquiry into labor rights. Liam Byrne, the lawmaker who chairs the committee, said the committee was ... Read more ›
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