Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The brains behind Bernie’s AI sovereign wealth fund? A Silicon Valley law professor • The Takeaway: How I learned to love Mark Rober• E-commerce: The fast-growing Thiel-backed startup defying a creator economy slowdown• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Foul Play,” “The Feather Wars” and “Portobello”A couple days ago, I snagged a red-hot invite: David Holz, the Midjourney founder, was throwing a... Read more ›
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Netflix has secured the U.S. rights to exclusively stream the 2027 and 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cups, a major step forward in the video giant’s expansion into live sports. This is the first time Netflix has bought out all of the rights in the U.S. on a specific tournament. Netflix and FIFA did ... Read more ›
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Shopify, the Canadian-based e-commerce software giant, is walking a tightrope. The company has growing ambitions to promote its own software, such as its Shop Pay branded checkout, which appears on many of its 2 million merchants’ sites. Those goals are beginning to clash with the interests of the small software firms that historically have provided the add-on software tools Shopify offers its merchants. Read more ›
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OpenAI is currently prepping the next generation of its o1 reasoning model, which takes more time to “think” about questions users give it before responding, according to two people with knowledge of the effort. However, due to a potential copyright or trademark conflict with O2, a British ... Read more ›
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Here’s an idea. Instead of Donald Trump letting Elon Musk crash every dinner and phone call Trump has with tech CEOs, how about he invites Apple CEO Tim Cook and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg to jointly dine with him? Maybe the incoming president could sort out the two companies’ differences.Tensions between Apple and Meta date back a while, of course, but Apple’s diatribe against Meta this week was particularly... Read more ›
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Ōura, the smart ring maker, raised $200 million in a series D funding round with participation from Fidelity Management & Research Company and Dexcom, the company said Thursday. The funding values the company at $5.2 billion, up from $2.55 billion in 2022. As part of the Series D, Ōura last ... Read more ›
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Google on Tuesday released a new artificial intelligence model that aims to automate more complex tasks by spending a longer time processing a person’s instructions, known as reasoning. The launch comes several months after OpenAI pioneered a reasoning model of its own, o1, for which it charges ... Read more ›
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I spent Tuesday afternoon at the White House’s holiday party for influencers. It was packed: more than 500 attendees mingled over spiked eggnog and cocktail shrimp, including hip-hop artist Flava Flav, comedian Keegan-Michael Key, reality TV star turned podcaster Harry Jowsey—and of course, the Bidens. Tuesday's party, the second year the Biden administration’s Office of Digital Strategy hosted a holiday fest for creators and others working in the industry, was... Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump had dinner with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, the New York Times reported. Musk wasn’t expected to be part of the dinner but joined after it had already begun, according to the report. The Times did not report what the trio discussed. Earlier ... Read more ›
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Alec Radford, an OpenAI researcher who helped develop some of its most important artificial intelligence, on Thursday told colleagues he was leaving to pursue research independently. Radford said he planned to collaborate with OpenAI as well as other AI developers, according to a person who ... Read more ›
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Google is making one of its biggest moves yet to bring conversational answers into its search engine, a response to artificial intelligence rivals that have attracted users by providing such answers rather than a list of website links. The company is planning to give its billions of search users the option to switch to an AI Mode that looks nearly identical to its Gemini AI chatbot, according to a person... Read more ›
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Apple has criticized Meta Platforms for making a large number of requests to access Apple’s “sensitive technologies” within its mobile operating system iOS, warning that such requests could allow Meta to read iPhone owners’ emails and messages. Meta made the requests under a rule ... Read more ›
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Fintech banking startup Chime Financial has filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering, Bloomberg reported. Chime declined to comment. The company, which has long been planning to go public next year, offers fee-free digital banking sources. The company was valued at $25 billion ... Read more ›
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Accel, a blue-blood of Sand Hill Road, is thinking smaller.The firm publicly filed Thursday that it has raised $1.35 billion for its latest growth fund to invest in mature startups. That’s nearly a quarter less than the $1.75 billion it raised for its last growth fund in 2021.The smaller fund is a tacit admission by one of the industry’s leaders of the challenges facing scores of venture capital firms—that there... Read more ›
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Apple is in early talks with Tencent and ByteDance about using its artificial intelligence models in iPhones sold in China, Reuters reported. China has tight rules over AI, making it challenging for foreign companies to operate their AI models in the country without regulatory approval. So ... Read more ›
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Workers at seven U.S. Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said. The striking workers include some warehouse staff employed by Amazon, as well as delivery drivers that Amazon says are not its employees. The strikes affect Amazon facilities in New ... Read more ›
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Apple is nearing a deal with the Indonesian government to lift a ban on sales of the iPhone 16 that went into effect in late October, Bloomberg reported. While Apple’s sales in Indonesia are modest when compared with the U.S., Europe, and China, the Southeast Asian country’s status as the fourth ... Read more ›
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Lately, AI developer Anthropic has been riding high, with its models’ impressive performance on tasks like code generation helping it to poach customers from its larger rival, OpenAI. What many people haven’t realized, though, is how Anthropic might be disadvantaged in the upcoming Trump era.Anthropic has connections to the effective altruism movement, which emphasizes the dangers of AI over short-term profit or productivity benefits. These positions could rub President-elect Donald... Read more ›
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To figure out how its advanced artificial intelligence chips are ending up in China in violation of U.S. export laws, chip giant Nvidia has turned to companies like Super Micro Computer for answers. Nvidia generally doesn’t sell its chips directly to customers, relying instead on specialized dealers and server companies like Supermicro, as the company is also known, to do so. That’s why Nvidia recently asked Supermicro to conduct spot... Read more ›
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Chinese gaming giant Tencent Holdings relinquished its two board seats at ‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games, after the U.S. Department of Justice raised concerns about antitrust violations. The two Epic board of directors also serve on Tencent’s board, which according to the DOJ is a violation of the ... Read more ›
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We’ve got a new cliff-hanger episode in the seemingly endless drama over TikTok’s future. This time, the stars will be John Roberts and his band of Supreme Court justices. The highest court in the land on Wednesday said it would hear oral arguments on Jan. 10 in TikTok’s appeal against the ban-or-sell law that threatens the app’s existence. (If only those arguments could be broadcast as TikToks!)That timeline is cutting... Read more ›
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