Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: The brains behind Bernieâs AI sovereign wealth fund? A Silicon Valley law professor  ⹠The Takeaway: How I learned to love Mark Roberâą E-commerce: The fast-growing Thiel-backed startup defying a creator economy slowdownâą Plus, Recommendationsâour weekly pop culture picks: âFoul Play,â âThe Feather Warsâ and âPortobelloâA couple days ago, I snagged a red-hot invite: David Holz, the Midjourney founder, was throwing a... Read more âș
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The U.K.âs government plans to announce a significant increase in the countryâs computing capacity for artificial intelligence on Monday. Although it isnât clear how much the effort will cost, the effort came in a response to a government-commissioned report on AI opportunities for the U.K.âs ... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized the Biden administration, complained about the âculturally neuteredâ corporate world and said Apple hasnât âinvented anything great in a while,â during a multi-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan. Zuckerberg, who has been trying to align himself ... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: A casual sex website with an underage sex problemâą Power and Influence: DOGE goes headhunting ⹠The Top 5: Where to travel after Davos ⹠Plus: When a corporate marvel may be a communist spy ring; piecing together âSeveranceâ; and an uncomfortable masterpieceA couple years ago, Donald Trump was banned from Facebook, and just a few months ago, he was threatening to... Read more âș
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The World Economic Forumâs annual meeting in Davos is the Super Bowl of schmoozing. And letâs face it, after a week of nonstop on-calendar panel discussions, off-calendar networking and late-night partiesâGoogle and McKinsey & Co. are known for throwing some of the best ones!âeven the most extroverted movers and shakers need a little R&R and time to plot their next moves. We canvassed a mix of seasoned Davos attendees, as... Read more âș
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For decades, the path toward federal government employment has involved a long and winding journey for full-timers and contractors alike. The Department of Government Efficiency, the pseudo-governmental entity run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is doing things differently. Recruitment to join DOGE, as the Musk-Ramaswamy group has styled itself, often starts with a message like this one sent by Shahed Khan, a co-founder of video-messaging startup Loom who is... Read more âș
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I was at the Supreme Court on Fridayâand things arenât looking too rosy for TikTokâs hopes to stay alive in the U.S. Judging from the justicesâ questions and comments, it sounds like theyâre inclined to uphold a U.S. law that could ban TikTok in just nine days. Thatâs the opening its potential suitors, such as Activision Blizzardâs former CEO, Bobby Kotick, have been waiting for.But Kotick and any other potential... Read more âș
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Top U.S. antitrust regulators on Friday asked a federal judge in California overseeing Elon Muskâs lawsuit against OpenAI to decide whether the artificial intelligence developer and its partner Microsoft ran afoul of federal antitrust laws in recent years. The request lends credence to Muskâs ... Read more âș
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This week on More or Less: The group takes sides on Meta's moderation overhaul. Plus, why we are happy we skipped CES. Apple Spotify YouTube Read more âș
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Meta Platforms on Friday ended many of its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, according to an internal post viewed by The Information. The company said it would stop requiring consideration of a diverse pool of candidates for job openings; focus on sourcing from small and medium businesses ... Read more âș
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The Supreme Court on Friday, in whatâs emerged as a landmark case over free speech, national security and social media, seemed to indicate it would uphold a U.S. law that would ban TikTok. The justices grilled TikTok about its argument that the law violates its freedom of speech, impinging on ... Read more âș
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Amazon is ending a service that allowed Prime members to order clothing, try it on and decide whether or not they want to keep it before being charged for the goods. The service, Prime Try Before You Buy, will end on Jan. 31, according to notices Amazon has sent U.S. users. Amazon, which ... Read more âș
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Kelly Weld didnât know what to expect when she finally managed to unlock her sonâs iPhone in February 2023. Still, she had hoped to find an answer as to why the then-16-year-old had recently started failing classes, skipping school and acting out at their home in central Florida. She found a disturbing explanation in his web-browsing history: For almost two years, her son had been having sex with adult men... Read more âș
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Amazon has removed language about its diversity, equity and inclusion goals, as well as its support for transgender employees, from its corporate website, The Information reported on Friday. Itâs the latest example of a big tech firm tacking right following Donald Trumpâs victory in the ... Read more âș
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Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery and Disneyâs ESPN have called off plans to launch Venu, a live sports streaming service. Venu Sports, the joint venture that would have overseen the streaming service, will discontinue operations, the three companies said in a joint statement on Friday. âIn an ... Read more âș
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Like most big technology companies, Amazon began publishing pages and blog posts on its corporate website in recent years declaring its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion along with other issues. Over the past few weeks, though, some of those webpages have been undergoing curious makeoversâor disappearing altogether. For example, a page outlining Amazonâs stances on a variety of political issues as recently as mid-December mentioned that the company would... Read more âș
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Amazonâs decision to stuff its search results and product pages with ads over the past several years might annoy some shoppers like me, but itâs paid off handsomely for the company. Those ads are thought to account for the lionâs share of the $50 billion in ad revenue it is expected to have taken in last year. Now Amazon is going to start selling the technology behind the ads to... Read more âș
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Five-year-old Wiz, a $16 billionâvaluation startup that sells cloud cybersecurity software to large companies, has always had a flair for the dramatic. A few years ago, CEO Assaf Rappaport declared it the fastest-growing software company ever. In 2023, it openly mulled a takeover of larger, publicly held SentinelOne. And last year Wiz told its employees it was turning down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Alphabetâa rich offer to reject.So... Read more âș
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Iâm in Washington D.C. ahead of oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Friday morning, where TikTok will argue against a U.S. law that could ban the app in 10 days if it doesnât sever ties with its Chinese parent ByteDance.  Despite this threat, TikTok is pushing forward as normalâso much so that this week at the major tech conference CES in Las Vegas, TikTok executives held a panel where... Read more âș
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SoftBank and its Arm Holdings chip design subsidiary are considering an acquisition of Ampere Computing, a server chip design startup led by former Intel executive RenĂ©e James, Bloomberg reported. The acquisition interest reflects SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Sonâs desire to make Arm the main focus of ... Read more âș
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Amazon is exploring creating more news programming after it aired a live U.S. Election Night special hosted by veteran news anchor Brian Williams last November, according to Variety. While the talks are early, the streaming video giant is reportedly interested in creating more news specials tied ... Read more âș
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