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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Brian Quintenz, the head of policy at Andreessen Horowitz’s digital asset arm a16z crypto, has emerged as a top contender to be Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair under President-elect Donald Trump, Bloomberg reported. Quintenz, a former CFTC commissioner, has been interviewed for the ... Read more ›
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YouTube TV is hiking its prices up by $10 per month, demonstrating that even for customers of newer, streaming-based cable TV-like services, paying for cable remains an expensive option. YouTube said the price of the base plan for YouTube TV will go up to $82.99 per month, effective immediately ... Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to meet with Jeff Bezos next week. “Jeff Bezos is coming up next week,” Trump said on CNBC after ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday morning. Earlier in December, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder said he was “very optimistic” ... Read more ›
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Initial public offerings were once about financing a tech company’s future hopes and dreams. More and more, however, IPOs are about looking backward—paying down debt or allowing early backers to sell some of their shares. Take ServiceTitan, which makes business software for tradespeople and is set to go public Thursday on the Nasdaq. The company plans to use around half of the about $625 million it is raising to repay... Read more ›
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Readers of The Information overwhelmingly oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to increase tariffs and believe they will hurt the technology industry, according to our most recent survey. Survey respondents also turned pessimistic about the outlook for tech, despite a rising stock market since Trump won reelection last month. For the first time in four months and only the third time since we began monthly surveys last year, more respondents said... Read more ›
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Walmart-backed fintech One is nearing a deal for more than $300 million in fresh funding from the retail giant and the investment firm Ribbit Capital, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. The funding round will value One at $2.5 billion before the new capital, the person said. One ... Read more ›
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A year after Google first gave developers a look at its Gemini AI—the search giant’s answer to OpenAI’s popular GPT models—the company has now revealed the second generation of its conversational AI models, Gemini 2.0.Google announced on Wednesday a new, experimental version of Flash, its smaller and cheaper AI, as well as new AI assistants and agents that can help users with tasks like building spreadsheets, browsing the web and... Read more ›
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BuzzFeed has sold First We Feast, the maker of the popular food and interview video series “Hot Ones,” to an affiliate of Soros Fund Management for $82.5 million. The all-cash deal, combined with cash BuzzFeed already has on hand, will give it enough money to cover the nearly $124 million it ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has a lot of rivals nipping at its heels. None of them has given the company’s executives the jitters quite like Anthropic has, though. Earlier this fall, OpenAI leaders got a shock when they saw the performance of Anthropic’s artificial intelligence model for automating computer programming tasks, which had gained an edge on OpenAI’s models, according to its own internal benchmarks. AI for coding is one of OpenAI’s strong... Read more ›
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Warner Bros. Discovery took the first step towards a potential breakup, announcing it was reorganizing its operations into two distinct divisions, one housing its traditional TV networks and another housing its streaming services and film studios. In a statement, WBD said the new corporate ... Read more ›
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The main chip in Huawei’s newest flagship smartphone is only an incremental upgrade over its predecessor, according to a teardown by research firm TechInsights. The small update to the processor suggests that advancements in China’s chip-making abilities have slowed. Huawei surprised the ... Read more ›
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Echo AI, whose generative artificial intelligence tools allow companies to analyze customer conversations, has been bought by Calabrio, a maker of software for contact centers that’s owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, according to Echo CEO Alexander Kvamme. Seven-year-old Echo was one of ... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley investors often pride themselves on writing one of the first few checks in a startup, then doubling down if a winner takes off. But Databricks, an 11-year-old seller of databases and analytics software that’s raising billions of dollars, has prompted some elite investment firms to place a few very late bets as well. Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund and Lightspeed Venture Partners, all well known for making early investments... Read more ›
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Where have all the bears gone? (They can’t all be at Lake Tahoe!) The Nasdaq Composite Index passed 20,000 on Wednesday, up 1.8% on the day but 36% from where it started the year. As a benchmark, its November 2021 high—before the 2022 selloff—was 16,057. Among the individual standout stocks today was Tesla, which rose 6% to a new all-time high of $424.77. That’s up 69% since the election.Of course,... Read more ›
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Creator startups are still trying to figure out how to grow their businesses—and that process sometimes results in layoffs as they revamp their strategies. One of the latest is Spotter, a five-year old startup that’s best known for offering upfront financing to YouTubers. It cut staff in early November across different parts of the Los Angeles-based company, Spotter confirmed. Read more ›
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Stablecoin issuer Circle and crypto exchange Binance announced a partnership on Wednesday to expand adoption of Circle’s USDC stablecoin, by making it more “extensively available” across Binance’s trading products and other services. The announcement is notable given the previously frosty ... Read more ›
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Stitch Fix shares surged more than 47% on Wednesday, after the online styling service reported net revenue for the quarter ended in November of $318.8 million, a 12.6% drop from the year ago period but a smaller decline than the company had projected. The company’s revenue has been shrinking ... Read more ›
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In the fall, a Miami-based firm called Sand Hill Road Technologies Fund offered its customers a hot opportunity: a chance to invest in SpaceX, which was arranging a deal for employees to sell some of their shares. But Sand Hill’s prospective investors, wealthy individuals whom the fund reached through online ads on Google and Meta Platforms apps as well as email and text, wouldn’t get the shares directly. And it... Read more ›
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Stablecoins are suddenly all the rage, as crypto investors and founders tout how the tokens can transform sending money internationally. At least three startups that focus on international payments are seeking fresh funding, according to people familiar with the companies, emboldened in part by Stripe’s recent deal to acquire stablecoin startup Bridge for more than $1 billion. All three have figured out a way to allow users around the world... Read more ›
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Before we get to our main item of the day, a note to readers to tune in here tomorrow for reactions to Google’s Gemini 2.0 large language model, which was announced this morning.Now onto our main item…Artificial intelligence developers are realizing they need help standing out in an increasingly crowded market.OpenAI last week hired Kate Rouch to be its first chief marketing officer. You could argue Rouch was something of... Read more ›
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