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Martin Peers @ The Information · 08/21/2024 18:57 EDT

Zoom Video Communications, whose business exploded during Covid, is barely growing. But in the July quarter, it managed to post marginally better growth than it had projected, of 2.1%, double its expectations. That was good enough for investors, who sent Zoom stock up 3% in after-hours trading ... Read more ›

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 08/21/2024 18:48 EDT

Snowflake Posts Stronger Than Projected Growth

Snowflake reported 29% revenue growth in the July quarter, slightly better than the company projected a few months ago, a sign that the data analytics firm’s business is improving after a slowdown last year. Snowflake raised its projection for full year growth, for the second ... Read more ›

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Sahil Patel @ The Information 3 place · 08/21/2024 17:48 EDT

Disney Names Board Member James P. Gorman to Oversee CEO Succession

Disney’s board of directors has appointed current member James P. Gorman to chair its succession planning committee to find the company’s next chief executive. Gorman joined Disney’s board earlier this year and was selected by Disney after overseeing a recent succession process at Morgan ... Read more ›

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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information · 08/21/2024 17:05 EDT

Loren Gray is one of the original queens of TikTok, finding early success on its predecessor app Musical.ly in 2015 when she was just 13 years old. Now Gray is the latest social media star to break into traditional acting. She was cast in Netflix’s new film “Incoming,” slated for release Friday, which centers on a group of high school freshmen navigating their first party. Gray plays a popular girl... Read more ›

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Stephanie Palazzolo @ The Information · 08/21/2024 15:23 EDT

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating accusations by customers and rivals of Nvidia, including Advanced Micro Devices, that the artificial intelligence chip designer is behaving in an anti-competitive way, including in how it bundles its products. One longtime rival argues that while Nvidia’s sharp-edged tactics don’t appear to be illegal, they will eventually hurt its business. “When people start complaining to you about what you’re selling them, that seems... Read more ›

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Yueqi Yang @ The Information · 08/21/2024 14:18 EDT

The developer behind Story Protocol, a blockchain startup founded in 2022 to tackle copyright use, raised $80 million in a round led by a16z crypto, with participation from Polychain Capital and others. PIP Labs raised the round at a valuation of $2.25 billion, according to CNBC and ... Read more ›

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Rocket Drew @ The Information · 08/21/2024 10:00 EDT

The Friends and Foes of California’s AI Legislation

If you follow a lot of tech and venture capitalists on X, you’d get the sense that all founders and investors are in violent opposition to SB 1047. The proposed bill moving through the California legislature would regulate large artificial intelligence makers by requiring them to hire outside auditors, ensuring the companies are testing their models for dangerous capabilities and establishing whistleblower protections. Big tech companies and large startups alike... Read more ›

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Sylvia Varnham O'Regan @ The Information 2 place · 08/21/2024 09:00 EDT

Meta Platforms knows how to get brands like Away and Temu to buy advertisements on Facebook and Instagram. If the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is to succeed at his goal of becoming a leader in artificial intelligence, though, Meta’s going to have to quickly learn a new skill: how to pitch software to big businesses. Zuckerberg wants to turn Meta’s large language model, Llama 3, into the industry standard for... Read more ›

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Juro Osawa @ The Information · 08/21/2024 02:02 EDT

Walmart has sold its stake in Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com for $3.6 billion, Bloomberg reported, eight years after the American retail giant made the investment as part of a strategic partnership that let Chinese consumers buy Walmart products on JD.com. Walmart sold 144.5 million JD.com ... Read more ›

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Laura Mandaro @ The Information 3 place · 08/20/2024 22:09 EDT

A federal judge in Texas struck down on a rule by the Federal Trade Commission that attempted to ban noncompete contracts, saying the antitrust agency was stepping beyond its authority with the regulation. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce had sued to block the rule, which was slated to go into ... Read more ›

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Laura Mandaro @ The Information · 08/20/2024 21:56 EDT

Ryan Breslow, the founder of ecommerce checkout Bolt, plans to return to the startup as part of a complicated fundraising that would also funnel cash to his other startup venture, The Information reported Tuesday. Bolt has told existing investors that it plans to raise $200 million in cash and ... Read more ›

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 08/20/2024 20:00 EDT

Bolt’s Breslow Plots His Return

You really can’t beat tech industry founders (and a few venture capitalists) when it comes to setting new standards of chutzpah. The latest example? As my colleague Erin Woo scooped today, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is proposing to return as CEO of the once-hot e-commerce startup. He claims to have the backing of an overseas investor who would put up a couple of hundred million dollars while existing shareholders would... Read more ›

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Julia Hornstein @ The Information · 08/20/2024 19:22 EDT

The Brouhaha Over Cash Distributions

A report from Carta published last week showed just how little venture capital funds have returned in cash to investors, adding to the disappointment in the asset class over the past few years. But a number of venture capitalists—and even some limited partners—say those findings aren’t as bad as they look. To recap, Carta, which sells software to manage investment firms’ portfolios, said only 9% of 2021 vintage VC funds... Read more ›

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Erin Woo @ The Information 3 place · 08/20/2024 19:09 EDT

Some Bolt Investors Balk at Founder’s Costly Attempt to Return as CEO

Ryan Breslow’s proposed return as CEO of Bolt, a commerce software firm that became one of the biggest symbols of investor overexuberance during the pandemic-fueled tech boom, would carry a high cost for existing investors. The deal proposed by Breslow and the company’s current CEO also would reward Breslow with lots of cash for himself and other ventures he started or got involved with after leaving Bolt two years ago.... Read more ›

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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information · 08/20/2024 17:18 EDT

The DNC’s Creator Play

Democrats are trying to one up Republicans when it comes to creators this election cycle. The Democratic National Convention invited more than 200 influencers to the nearly weeklong event, which kicked off on Monday in Chicago. That’s double the number invited to the Republican National Convention last month. It’s the first time either political convention has offered the same kind of access to social media creators as they grant to... Read more ›

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Nick Wingfield @ The Information · 08/20/2024 16:00 EDT

Jeff Bezos has no plans to bid on the Boston Celtics, according to a person close to Bezos. Since Monday, sports media has been abuzz about the possibility that the billionaire founder of Amazon was considering making an offer for the team, after podcaster Bill Simmons gave credence to the rumors in an episode of his show. But according to the person close to Bezos, there’s “zero truth” to the... Read more ›

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Sahil Patel @ The Information 3 place · 08/20/2024 15:21 EDT

Publisher Condé Nast, the owner of magazine titles including Vogue, The New Yorker and GQ, has struck a multi-year licensing deal with OpenAI, the company’s CEO, Roger Lynch, announced in a memo to staff. As part of the deal, content from Condé Nast publications will now appear within OpenAI ... Read more ›

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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information · 08/20/2024 13:53 EDT

Alex Cooper signed a deal with SiriusXM for her popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast, as well as her network of other shows. The three-year deal is worth $100 million, according to Bloomberg. The deal, which goes into effect in 2025, will give SiriusXM the exclusive right to sell ads on the audio ... Read more ›

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Erin Woo @ The Information · 08/20/2024 10:36 EDT

As startup founder comebacks go, this may rank as one of the most remarkable. Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is returning as CEO to the embattled e-commerce startup, two and a half years after he stepped down. And he potentially comes with another $450 million: The company is finalizing a $450 million Series F funding round from investment firms in the United Arab Emirates and the U.K. that will value Bolt... Read more ›

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Stephanie Palazzolo @ The Information · 08/20/2024 10:00 EDT

So far, many of the improvements in large language models’ capabilities have stemmed from a surprisingly simple concept: scaling laws. Essentially, researchers have noticed that the more computing power and data you use to train AI models, the better they perform. This realization has pushed labs like OpenAI, Meta Platforms, Anthropic and Google into fierce (and expensive) battles for chips and new sources of training data. But, new research from... Read more ›

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