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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The Information’s annual summit for women in tech, media and finance is a wrap! This year’s sold out conference in Napa Valley included leaders from Amazon, Google, J.P. Morgan, Salesforce, PagerDuty, Instacart, Block, Airbnb and many more. In case you missed some of the coverage, here is your weekend WTF reading. Artificial intelligence is the steel thread that ran throughout the two days’ sessions. Google’s head of search Liz Reid... Read more ›
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said geopolitical tensions are “treacherous and getting worse” and that the bank was preparing for a situation that could have “far-reaching effects on both short-term economic outcomes and more importantly on the course of history.” The gloomy outlook came as the bank— ... Read more ›
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On the night of Sept. 21, a group of Black entrepreneurs, investors and Congressional Black Caucus members navigated a labyrinth of gated security to reach a megamansion with views of the Las Vegas Strip. Their hosts: venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, his wife Felicia and Rep. Steven Horsford, chair of the Democratic congressional group. As guests mingled by the Horowitzes’ wraparound pool, their discussions focused on cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence and how... Read more ›
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Until Julie Gao joined ByteDance as chief financial officer two years ago, she was one of the highest-profile initial public offering lawyers in Asia. Over the course of 20 years, she helped take public a succession of Chinese tech giants, including JD.com, Temu parent PDD Holdings and Meituan. The one company Gao hasn’t been able to take public, though, is ByteDance, one of the world’s most valuable private tech companies. Read more ›
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company would release Robotaxis costing less than $30,000 in 2026, though he stopped short of promising the vehicles would be fully autonomous, describing them as “highly optimized for autonomous transport.” Musk also said the company would sell $20,000 humanoid ... Read more ›
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It’s become well understood that the high-stakes political world more closely mirrors the satire “Veep” than the prestige-draped “The West Wing.” Behind the pomp, circumstance and power are humans who, like all of us, are prone to bumbling mistakes.   The same thing can be said, it seems, about highly choreographed, stealthy corporate activist investors. Case in point today: Starboard, one of the largest such firms, had its $1 billion activist... Read more ›
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A federal judge in Virginia on Thursday denied domain registrar GoDaddy’s effort to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the company deterred its customers from using software tools made by a competitor. Entri, a startup that helps domain owners connect their websites to software tools ... Read more ›
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The boom in artificial intelligence funding has extended into the healthcare sector, where startups are developing generative AI tools to improve patient care.Abridge, a six-year-old startup that uses AI to transcribe doctors’ conversations with their patients, is raising $250 million at a valuation of $2.5 billion before the investment, according to people familiar with the deal. Elad Gil, a prolific solo fund manager and a co-founder of Color Genomics (now... Read more ›
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Toptal, a hiring startup that connects companies with technical freelance workers such as developers and engineers, has laid off a significant number of workers, according to LinkedIn posts by employees who said they were laid off and people who said they lost their jobs. The layoffs affected ... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, when healthy-bagel startup BetterBrand was looking to raise more capital, things seemed to be going well. The firm told investors revenue was on track to roughly double this year, and it was expanding into Europe. But founder and CEO Aimee Yang thought the company should be valued at between $250 million and $300 million, above the $170 million valuation the firm had secured in mid-2023 from investors... Read more ›
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Investing giant Fidelity Investments is laying the groundwork to launch a money market fund that may trade on a blockchain in the future. It’s the latest effort by a big traditional money manager to explore using the technology to speed up financial transactions and widen the audience for its products. Fidelity on Sept. 26 filed paperwork with U.S. securities regulators to outline its plans, a move that has not previously... Read more ›
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Ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall in Florida, some local creators decided to stay put—and use the natural disaster as an opportunity to capture some prime viewership. These terrifying videos of wind-whipped trees and troubled skies are hard to pass up. But they also show creators playing to the internet’s worst instincts.“Shit is looking dicey,” said Morgan Roos, a TikTok creator with 1.5 million followers, who is based in Tampa and... Read more ›
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Marketing software vendor HubSpot has struck a deal to buy Cacheflow, which sells a billing product for businesses, for roughly $100 million, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. The acquisition, which could be announced as soon as Friday, will help HubSpot expand its ... Read more ›
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Amid a roomful of Silicon Valley elite this week, a Clinton made a rousing call to action by recounting a tragedy: the story of Amanda Zurawski, a young Texan woman left infertile after a botched abortion procedure. “This is what we’re doing to women in America,” said Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary, founder of Metrodora Ventures, a New York venture firm, and vice chair of her family’s Clinton... Read more ›
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Federal regulators hit TD Bank with about $3 billion in fines after the firm pleaded guilty to widespread money-laundering breaches that allowed criminals to easily open accounts and move money through the bank for nearly a decade. The penalties, issued by FinCEN, the Office of the Comptroller ... Read more ›
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Apple will offer its TV+ streaming service through Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. beginning later this month, according to the companies. Apple TV+ will be sold as a $9.99 add-on subscription within Prime Video. A wide range of streaming services are offered through Amazon Prime Video, including ... Read more ›
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Howdy! Amir and Rocket here. Before we get to today’s column, please read this phenomenal piece from Aaron about Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s market analysis methods. Hint: they involve an absurd number of meetings and calls with people outside his company. It’s a leadership masterclass.Onto today’s issue…When we told you in July that OpenAI would probably lose $5 billion this year, we also explained how the company reminded us of... Read more ›
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Technology is in a state of rapid change. Google faces a historic antitrust breakup. Advances in artificial intelligence are minting multibillion-dollar startups. And venture capital is still grappling with the hangover of the 2021 boom. Speakers at The Information’s Women in Tech, Media and Finance summit had opinions on them all. Chelsea Clinton called on Silicon Valley to use artificial intelligence to get out the vote. Marissa Mayer noted a... Read more ›
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Investors may be viewing Meta Platforms’ stock through rose-tinted glasses. Meta’s shares have soared over 70% this year, more than those of any other big tech stock except Nvidia, giving Meta a premium valuation next to comparable stocks such as Alphabet’s. Shares of the Facebook and Instagram parent now trade at 14.2 times next year’s expected earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, compared to 12.3 for Alphabet, according to... Read more ›
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TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has released $170 AI-equipped wireless earbuds into the Chinese market. The earbuds enable users to talk to the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Doubao, without looking at their phones. The product is the latest sign of how tech companies are coming up ... Read more ›
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