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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Barret Zoph, a key OpenAI leader who announced his departure last week alongside CTO Mira Murati and Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, has said he plans to launch a new company, according to a person who spoke with Zoph. It’s unclear what artificial intelligence Zoph may develop or if he will ... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, Google staffers began pitching their counterparts at Samsung—a longtime Google hardware partner—on an idea for a new collaboration between the companies: high-tech glasses. At the time, another big tech company, Meta Platforms, was starting to see success from its own Ray-Ban smart glasses, which allowed people to record video and listen to music. The artificial intelligence boom had sparked even more excitement about the category, with Meta... Read more ›
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Microsoft is adding new features to its consumer-focused artificial intelligence Copilot app, including a “voice” mode that lets people talk to the chatbot, which can respond out loud, and a “vision” mode that lets the chatbot see what’s happening on a user’s screen and answer questions about ... Read more ›
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A federal judge dismissed part of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s broad antitrust suit against Amazon, according to a late Monday court filing. It was not clear which parts of the suit, which alleges a wide range of anticompetitive conduct, had been dismissed. Amazon and the FTC have until ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s newsletter, just a reminder that OpenAI will be holding its Dev Day event in San Francisco today. (This is just one of three developer-focused events the ChatGPT maker is hosting over the next two months, compared to the one-and-done approach from last year.)For those hoping for GPT-5, don’t hold your breath. Romain Huet, OpenAI’s head of developer experience, said on X a few days ago... Read more ›
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Lightspeed Venture Partners is raising money for three new funds that could total around $7 billion, according to a person who has discussed the fundraising with the firm’s partners. It’s the latest firm seeking to raise billions after a period when institutional investors pulled back from venture capital. Close to 40% of the new money will go to an opportunity fund that will make follow-on investments in its portfolio companies... Read more ›
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SoftBank’s Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI’s latest funding round, which values the developer of ChatGPT at $150 billion before the investment, The Information reported Monday. The deal would represent SoftBank’s first investment in OpenAI and its largest bet on ... Read more ›
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If you’re like me, you’re getting political fundraising text messages roughly every 15 minutes these days. But political candidates aren’t the only people raising money aggressively right now. There are also AI startup executives, most obviously the folks at OpenAI. Today we scooped the news that SoftBank is putting $500 million into OpenAI as part of a fundraising which is expected to raise $6.5 billion at a $150 billion valuation.... Read more ›
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Sunnyvale-based Cerebras, which designs chips for training and running artificial intelligence models, disclosed in a prospectus for an initial public offering that it lost $127 million last year on $78 million in revenue. Still, the startup’s revenue rose sharply in the first six months of ... Read more ›
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Satellite TV firms DirecTV and Dish Network are planning to merge, not for the first time. DirecTV’s parent, TPG, said Monday it would buy Dish Network for $1 plus assumption of about $10 billion in debt. At the same time, TPG is buying full ownership of DirecTV from AT&T for $7.6 ... Read more ›
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Thrive Capital has raised $391.3 million in new capital for an investment vehicle associated with its $3.5 billion growth fund launched in August, according to a securities filing. In March 2023, Thrive similarly raised $744.8 million for an special-purpose vehicle, a pool of capital dedicated ... Read more ›
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Epic Games on Monday sued Google and Samsung over claims that a new Samsung phone setting blocks app stores that compete with the Google Play app store, which is preloaded on devices powered by Google’s Android software, including Samsung’s. Epic last year won an antitrust suit accusing Google ... Read more ›
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As OpenAI nears a much-needed capital raise, some investors in the company have privately voiced hope that its largest shareholder and benefactor, Microsoft, will relinquish its rights to a large share of OpenAI’s future profits—an arrangement that effectively lowers the value of shares held by newer investors.I wouldn’t bet on it.Microsoft has the power to veto any proposed changes to those profit rights, and its executives haven’t wanted to change... Read more ›
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SoftBank’s Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI’s latest funding round, which values the developer of ChatGPT at $150 billion before the investment, a person familiar with the deal said. The deal represents SoftBank’s first investment in the Sam Altman-led company. SoftBank joins lead investor Thrive Capital, which is investing over $1 billion in the round. Tiger Global Management, Coatue Management and Microsoft are also participating in... Read more ›
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The race to get self-driving taxis on the road is accelerating. Elon Musk’s Tesla plans to reveal its long-awaited prototype of one such vehicle on Oct. 10, while Alphabet-owned Waymo announced last month that its autonomous vehicles soon would be available for Uber customers in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta. These moves, along with Waymo’s recent success running a robotaxi service in Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco that it says... Read more ›
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation Sunday that would have imposed new regulations on artificial intelligence and exposed deep divisions in the tech industry. SB 1047, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, would have created a new oversight body to issue regulations and approve new AI ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:•The Big Read: How YouTuber Mark Rober got inside the heads of Silicon Valley families. • The Top 5: The best trails to use e-bikes to get out of your cars and smell Mother Nature. • Plus: A new album from electronic artist Jamie xx; a Batman villain spreads his wings; and the origins of reality television.Just when you thought OpenAI had filled its quota of... Read more ›
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You’ve seen them everywhere—and have probably even dodged a couple while crossing Market Street in San Francisco or Fifth Avenue in New York. Electric bikes have become a de rigueur mode of transportation for the office-going set, affording even those who routinely skip leg day at the gym the ability to sail through SoMa without breaking a sweat. Max Mautner, a software engineer from San Mateo, Calif., who works at... Read more ›
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The Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta Platforms 91 million ($102 million) and reprimanded it for storing some user passwords without encryption. “It is widely accepted that user passwords should not be stored in plaintext,” said the Deputy Commissioner of the Irish body in a statement. ... Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg has become a watch nerd. In his appearance at Connect on Wednesday, he was flashing a timepiece identified by Redditors as this one costing tens of thousands of dollars, at least the third such ultrapricey watch he has sported lately. It’s all part of a recent style makeover that also includes gold chains and loud shirts. It’s smart: The watches, in particular, set Zuckerberg apart from his counterparts... Read more ›
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