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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Notion, a maker of popular task-management software, is injecting artificial intelligence into every pore of its products, aiming to make it easier for people to draft documents, summarize data and query spreadsheets. AI is also reshaping Notion’s executive ranks. The company recently hired Jackie Rocca, formerly vice president of product management at Salesforce. Rocca oversaw the integration of AI features into Slack, which Salesforce acquired in 2021. Her hire as... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has banned Russian state media outlets including RT and Rossiya Segodnya from its platforms due to allegations that they have engaged in deceptive influence operations, Reuters and other news outlets reported. Meta’s move comes after the Justice Department earlier this month ... Read more ›
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Microsoft will raise the quarterly dividend that it pays investors to 83 cents a share, up from 75 cents, beginning in November, the company said late Monday. The software maker will also buy back $60 billion in stock, replacing its previous $60 billion stock buyback that the company initiated ... Read more ›
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CEO letters to staff are usually written with so much bombast and blather that they say little of note. But that’s not the case with one that came from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy today. Despite a sleepy headline, “Strengthening Our Culture and Teams,” Jassy’s letter delivers some home truths. Most notably, he made it clear that Amazon has evolved into a lumbering bureaucracy, with too many managers and some processes... Read more ›
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Intel’s stock jumped more than 8% in after-hours trading after CEO Pat Gelsinger published a memo outlining several ways he plans to revive the firm, including by making an artificial intelligence networking chip with Amazon and receiving more funding from the government. He said the chip ... Read more ›
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Three federal appeals court judges hearing TikTok’s suit against the U.S. government over legislation that would ban the app in the U.S. focused their questions on the government’s claim that TikTok posed a national security risk. The line of query signaled the judges may be unswayed by TikTok’s ... Read more ›
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Thierry Breton resigned from his role as internal market commissioner for the European Union, according to a letter the French official posted to X on Sunday night. He accused European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of trying to prevent his candidacy for a second term in the EU ... Read more ›
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One of Google's efforts to catch up to OpenAI in the artificial intelligence race is struggling. Google’s conversational AI, Gemini, is too difficult for app developers and businesses to use compared to rivals’ technology, according to interviews with developers and several Google employees that help companies use the AI. Read more ›
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Things are not looking great for TikTok. I spent the morning hearing TikTok’s lawyers present their arguments to convince a Washington appeals court that a ban would infringe on the First Amendment rights of 170 million American users, as well as creators. The response from the court—a panel of three judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit—was telling. They spent more time questioning TikTok lawyers... Read more ›
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Amazon is planning to eliminate some management roles in an effort to streamline the company, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo on Monday. The company is also ordering most employees back to the office five days per week. Jassy said in the memo that Amazon’s goal is to increase the ratio of ... Read more ›
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Microsoft is rolling out new ‘Copilot’ features in its Office 365 software in an effort to convince more businesses to spend on the $30-per-user AI software, CEO Satya Nadella said Monday. The company is adding a new “Copilot Agents” feature that lets people configure AI agents that will carry ... Read more ›
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OpenAI finally released its Strawberry reasoning artificial intelligence last week—or rather, an initial, less-complete version known as o1-preview. We first reported about the breakthrough behind Strawberry 10 months ago when it was still called Q*, and more recently told you what was coming, though we expected a more inspiring name than o1-preview!The reasoning model differs from prior large language models like GPT-4 in one key way: When training the reasoning... Read more ›
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TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is accelerating efforts to make its own artificial intelligence chips as it looks for an edge over its rivals in China’s AI chatbot market. ByteDance is aiming for mass production of two semiconductors it has designed by 2026, in collaboration with chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Production of the chips could reduce ByteDance’s dependence on costly... Read more ›
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Insight Partners has $10 billion in commitments from its investors for its latest fund to back private tech startups, according to a person briefed on its plans. While that’s half the $20 billion it had originally targeted at the tail end of the 2021-2022 bull market, it’s still a massive fund ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The firebrand investor who can explain MAGA tech• The Top 5: The doggone best pet gadgets• Plus: San Francisco goes Bourbon Street for fall; how yuppies live on; and the immigrants and the internet. Remember when an Apple unveiling was actually exciting? Honestly, I can’t. It’s probably been nearly a decade. This week brought more snoozy sameness. The iPhone got a new... Read more ›
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Walt Disney Co. reached a tentative agreement with satellite TV operator DirecTV that will allow Disney’s TV channels to be restored to DirecTV’s lineup, the companies announced on Saturday morning. The agreement had blacked out Disney’s ESPN during the US Open. Under the ... Read more ›
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Startups that can cut down on costly paperwork for lawyers using generative artificial intelligence continue to draw investor dollars, despite the high costs of developing that software and the difficulties the startups face in acquiring exclusive legal data to train their models.The latest: San Francisco-based EvenUp, which develops AI software to help personal injury lawyers compile claims using medical documents and case files, is in talks to raise a new... Read more ›
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Penny Lane, a Boykin spaniel living in the East Bay, is a bolter. It comes naturally to her: The Boykin, which is the state dog of South Carolina, was bred to fetch game during a hunt. “We live in the suburbs, so there’s some retrieving to be done, but not as much as one wishes,” said Penny’s owner, Allison Braley, a Bain Capital Ventures partner. “The concern is always, ‘Does... Read more ›
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It’s no surprise that President Joe Biden isn’t a TikTok fan: He’s not really the target demographic. But the president signaled today that he also isn’t a fan of Temu or Shein, two online shopping sites with ties to China that sell lots of cut-price clothing, housewares and other stuff. The Biden administration is taking new steps to close the import duty loophole that has allowed both shopping services to... Read more ›
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The Biden administration’s decision on Friday to end an import exemption that fueled the popularity of sites like Temu and Shein is likely to force China-founded sellers to fast-track overhauling their supply chains—and raise their ultracheap prices. The proposed trade rule changes could also prompt strategy shifts at U.S. apparel brands that have embraced selling direct from China, including venture-backed brands like Cider and Quince, and logistics startups like ShipBob... Read more ›
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