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 âș
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The gifting season is upon us, with kids and adults alike tearing into their new toys and gadgets while must-have presents from just a few years before sit forgotten. Venture capitalists can probably relate. In the tech world, weâre wrapping up year two of VCs splurging on shiny new artificial intelligence startups. AI startups to automate coding, customer service and sales are under every tree, and maybe a really good... Read more âș
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For popular China-based Amazon merchants, bargain site Temu has been an attractive new place to sell their wares. And Amazon hadnât been doing much to stop them from branching out. Thatâs all changed in recent weeks, several major Amazon merchants said. Amazon representatives have been offering incentives such as free advertising and lower commissions if merchants agree to stop selling on Temu, managers at two large China-based merchants said. Read more âș
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Elon Muskâs xAI, which develops conversational artificial intelligence in competition with OpenAI, said Monday it raised a $6 billion in equity financing round from a slew of investors, including new ones from the Middle East. The company did not disclose a valuation but it had previously ... Read more âș
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Workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina have filed for a union election, according to organizers and a National Labor Relations Board filing on Monday. Organizers from Carolina Amazonians for Solidarity and Empowerment said in a press release that they believed at least 30% of workers ... Read more âș
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Over the past year, OpenAI has dropped not-so-subtle hints about its revived interest in robotics: investing in startups developing hardware and software for robots such as Figure and Physical Intelligence and rebooting its internal robotics software team, which it had disbanded four years ago.Now, OpenAI could be taking that interest to the next level. The company has recently considered developing a humanoid robot, according to two people with direct knowledge... Read more âș
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Like most big tech companies with artificial intelligence ambitions, Apple has little choice but to use chips from Nvidia, whose graphics processing units are practically a de facto standard in the development and running of AI software. But Apple is working on ways to spend less on Nvidia chips without undermining its success in AI. Instead of buying boatloads of Nvidia chips as its tech peers do, the iPhone maker... Read more âș
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A decade ago, Peter Thiel wrote somewhat famously that âcompetition is for losers.â He was interested in backing startups that looked like Google, whose products were so good âthat no other firm can offer a close substitute.â A caveat he offered was that he wasnât interested in backing monopoly businesses that look like âgovernment favorites.âThielâs mission statement might need updating. Read more âș
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Microsoft is preparing to incorporate large language models developed in-house, and certain LLMs from third parties, as alternatives for OpenAIâs LLMs in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its main generative AI product, Reuters reported. Microsoftâs goal is to make Copilotâs AI ... Read more âș
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The Biden administration has launched a new trade investigation into Chinaâs supply of âlegacyâ chips that arenât the most advanced but are widely used in many key industries. The probe, which will be handed over to the incoming Trump administration and could result in ... Read more âș
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Thrive Capital has raised $179 million in new capital for an investment vehicle associated with its growth fund, a $4 billion fund launched in August, according to a securities filing. The filing said Thrive had raised the funds from 33 investors beginning earlier this month. The New York-based ... Read more âș
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Telegramâs revenue rose sharply to more than $1 billion this year and the messaging app turned a profit for the first time, founder and CEO Pavel Durov said Monday in his Telegram channel. Telegram started generating revenue in 2021 when it introduced ads, and it launched paid premium ... Read more âș
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Apple is in the early stages of developing a Ring-like doorbell camera as the company prepares to make a broader push into the smart home market, Bloomberg reported. The device is expected to use a feature akin to Face ID on iPhones that will allow people to unlock their front doors with their ... Read more âș
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Nvidia, a chip giant, says it can develop a cloud services and software business to rival Amazon Web Services. OpenAI, an artificial intelligence developer, has been developing server chips and a browser to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Google, respectively. And Elon Musk hired a data center team to build one of the biggest supercomputing server clusters for developing conversational AI. It seems like every major competitor in the... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs next-generation reasoning modelâcalled o3 for a funny reasonâseriously impressed researchers and developers last week.Specifically, o3 and o3-mini (a smaller version of the model) scored impressively on a number of extremely difficult math and coding benchmarks, beating out competitors like Anthropic and Google by a lot. It also reached human levels of performance on ARC-AGI, a benchmark meant to test how AI models handle tasks that humans excel at such... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs efforts to license news publishersâ content for training its large language models are beginning to pay business dividends. Publishers are increasingly opting to use OpenAIâs artificial intelligence tools for their operations rather than Googleâs, publishing executives say. OpenAI has signed more than a dozen content licensing agreements with news and magazine publishers in the past year. Under those deals, publishers get credits to use its technology, said people from... Read more âș
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President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday added to the ranks of his tech and science advisors, including nominating a longtime AI advisor, Michael Kratsios, to run the White Houseâs Office of Science and Technology Policy. In addition, Trump said Bo Hines, a 29-year-old North Carolina Republican, ... Read more âș
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As Elon Musk plays a growing role in Washington, President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday wanted to remind Americans who the top boss is. âNo, [Musk is] not going to be president, that I can tell you,â Trump told an audience of conservatives at a conference in Arizona. He further dismissed the ... Read more âș
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Palantir and Anduril are part of a group of defense and technology companies that may join forces to bid for government contracts that traditionally go to older blue chip firms. The consortium could also include SpaceX, OpenAI, billionaire Alexandr Wangâs ScaleAI and Saronic, a maker of ... Read more âș
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NSO Group, the Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware, violated U.S. federal and state laws when it hacked WhatsApp to surveil more than 1,000 users of the messaging app in 2019, a federal judge ruled on Friday. The decision is seen as a major win for cybersecurity activists who have raised ... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! This edition of Weekend is especially exciting: It marks the debut of a new coverage area for us and the arrival to The Information of a talented reporter. Sara Germano, a veteran of the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, has joined Weekend to helm The Arena, Weekendâs new franchise devoted to covering the business and future of sportsâparticularly womenâs sports, a source of major growth and... Read more âș
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