Kalshi was sued by users for failing to pay $54 million to people who bet that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would leave office before March 1, after he was killed during the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes last month. After Khamenei’s death, Kalshi said it couldn’t pay out any ... Read more ›
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In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL, and well above what rivals such as Meta Platforms’ social media apps charge. But unlike Meta or Google, OpenAI won’t be providing detailed information about the query responses accompanying their ads or whether ads prompted ChatGPT users to take an action, like buying something or looking up a website. OpenAI... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Beijing on Sunday after spending two days in Shanghai over the weekend, according to various Chinese media reports. He is expected to attend the company’s Lunar New Year celebrations and meet Chinese clients,, according to China Daily. It’s unclear if Huang ... Read more ›
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Anthropic had been in discussions with Apple to supply models to rebuild its Siri AI assistant and was seeking several billion dollars annually over multiple years, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. But negotiations with the AI startup stalled over the summer over the terms of a potential ... Read more ›
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The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday said it planned to open a safety investigation into the activity of Waymo vehicles around school buses in Austin, Tex. The investigation follows a report by the Austin Independent School District in November that Waymo vehicles had illegally ... Read more ›
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Clear your schedule on Wednesday afternoon. Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Tesla are each reporting their December-quarter earnings after the market closes that day. Tesla is its own thing—we have a sense of what’s coming because it already released vehicle delivery numbers, signaling that revenue will drop. But Microsoft and Meta will be important to track, as their results should give us an update on AI development spending and—at least in... Read more ›
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China is letting AI and semiconductor startups go public at a furious pace. Since December, two developers of large language models and four designers of graphics processing units have listed on stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai, raising a total of over $4 billion. At least two more are in the pipeline. Kunlunxin, the chip arm of Baidu, is seeking to raise up to $2 billion in Hong Kong,... Read more ›
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OpenAI is getting ready to unveil a new offering aimed at large companies that aims to help business customers with large AI transformations, the process when companies overhaul their existing technology to incorporate AI into a variety of operations, from customer service to ... Read more ›
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Some of OpenAI’s most attention-grabbing efforts over the past year have involved products for consumers, from a social app to an AI-powered device it plans to announce later this year. Last week, though, the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, gathered Disney CEO Bob Iger and other corporate executives in San Francisco to deliver a message: OpenAI is serious about catering to business customers. Over a lavish multicourse dinner accompanied by fine... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: How Greg and Anna Brockman became MAGA’s newest megadonors • The Takeway: When a Davos trip presents a chance to test AI’s limits • The Top 5: The moguls went to Davos—then we went shopping • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Articles of Interest,” “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing” and “The Night Manager”In its life so far, OpenAI has accomplished any... Read more ›
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Tackling global dilemmas is what the World Economic Forum does best, and keen observers of the happenings at Davos, Switzerland, can definitely glean a sense of where the world might be heading. It’s also not a bad place to pick up a sense of mogul-appropriate winter wear. “Dressing for Davos isn’t easy,” admitted Victoria Hitchcock, a Silicon Valley personal stylist, who helped a few attendees pack their bags for the... Read more ›
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Earlier this week, I found myself with time to kill in an airport lounge ahead of my flight back to San Francisco from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. So I did what any bleary-eyed tech editor who felt totally wiped out from dozens of interviews and events would do: I parked myself in an oversize lounge chair, booted up the airport Wi-Fi and decided to see if Claude... Read more ›
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A federal judge on Thursday questioned whether a previously undisclosed $800 million sales deal between Epic Games and Google was contributing to the parties opting for an antitrust settlement, The Verge reported. As part of the transaction, Epic would help Google market device operating system ... Read more ›
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Google has acquired Common Sense Machines, a Cambridge, Mass.,-based startup developing generative artificial intelligence models to create three-dimensional assets from two-dimensional images, a Google spokesperson confirmed. The deal closed this week, according to the spokesperson. The ... Read more ›
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Fervo Energy, a startup developing geothermal power projects, filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering, Axios reported. JPMorgan and Bank of America are working with Fervo on the potential offering, Axios reported. Fervo in December said it raised $462 million in funding led ... Read more ›
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In November, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, and his wife, Anna, enjoyed a glitzy night out in Washington: a White House state dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Brockmans were among a broad contingent of tech elite in attendance at the fete, hosted by President Donald Trump. Soon after the event, the Brockmans posted pictures of themselves posing with Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and his... Read more ›
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The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into allegations payroll startup Deel recruited and paid a spy inside a Rippling office in Ireland, according to the Wall Street Journal. In recent weeks, prosecutors have distributed subpoenas for a grand jury, the Journal reported. ... Read more ›
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Some of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges are racing to let their customers trade crypto tokens that seek to track U.S. stocks, creating a parallel market that’s beyond the reach of U.S. regulators. Binance is exploring reintroducing stock tokens on its exchange after having removed them in 2021, according to a person familiar with the plan. OKX, another major global platform, is also considering offering tokenized stocks, according to its... Read more ›
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Google invested in Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based developer of AI models and applications, Sakana said Friday. Google invested at the same valuation as the Japanese company’s recently announced funding round, which valued it at $2.5 billion without the newly raised capital, according to Sakana ... Read more ›
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Amazon will begin a round of layoffs next week, which could affect thousands of corporate employees, Reuters reported. In October, Amazon announced it was laying off 14,000 employees to help reduce management layers and bureaucracy. The upcoming layoffs will affect roughly the same number of ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expanded his direct reports to include the two co-heads of the company’s newly created Meta Compute team, signaling the importance of the new effort to manage Meta’s AI computing capacity needs. Zuckerberg announced Meta Compute in mid-January, declaring it a new “top-level initiative” that will be central to its plans to build hundreds of gigawatts’ worth of AI computing capacity over time. As reflected... Read more ›
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