Andy Rubin, creator of Android and a former Google executive, has launched a new startup focused on humanoid robots, said a person with direct knowledge of the venture. His venture is the latest addition to the red-hot and frothy humanoid space, crowded with companies ranging from Tesla to startups such as Figure AI. Rubinâs startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more âș
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Sequoia Capital has picked partner Andrew Reed to replace Matthew Miller on the board of âbuy now, pay laterâ company Klarna, according to people familiar with the matter. Miller had joined the board in January and recently led a failed effort to remove former Sequoia leader Michael Moritz from his position as Klarnaâs board chairman. On Tuesday, Miller and Sequoia retracted their request to remove Moritz as board chair, The... Read more âș
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Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and his investment partner, Daniel Gross, raised eyebrows last week by writing a $100 million check to Magic, the developer of an artificial intelligence coding assistant. There are loads of coding assistants already, and the top dog among them is Microsoftâs GitHub Copilot. So what did Friedman and Gross see in Magic?The answer goes beyond the companyâs claim that it will soon be able to... Read more âș
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ServiceNow is the rare technology company not to have laid off employees in the past 18 months. The software maker, whose $154 billion market capitalization outranks better-known brands such as Shopify and Snowflake, avoided layoffs by hiring prudently: Revenue has grown faster than headcount each year for at least a decade. Hiring slowed considerably in 2023, especially in human resources, finance, and other administrative functions, Chief People Officer Jacqui Canney... Read more âș
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You might not have expected Klarna, the Sweden-based original âbuy now, pay laterâ lender, to be the setting for a âSuccessionâ-caliber soap operaâbut hey, Sweden also produces lots of dramas for streaming TV. The real-life one weâre talking about centers on Sequoia Capitalâs ham-handed efforts to remove its highly respected former partner, Michael Moritz, from Klarnaâs board, news of which we scooped last week. Today we broke the news that... Read more âș
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Over the past few months, I've been hearing a lot more about ByteDance-owned CapCut, with many creators telling me they use the app as their main editing tool, which provides trendy templates and filters to spruce up videos. Some of this growth comes from its sister app TikTok, where users see videos made with CapCut and then get the app, making it the second most-downloaded free iPhone app in the... Read more âș
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Sequoia Capital has retracted its request to remove Michael Moritz as chairman of Klarnaâs board, according to emails reviewed by The Information. Sequoia partner Matthew Miller, the director who in recent days had asked Klarna shareholders to remove Moritz, is leaving the Klarna board. Sequoia plans to appoint a new partner to the company's board in the coming days. In an email, Sequoiaâs chief Roelof Botha told Klarna shareholders that... Read more âș
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Microsoft is taking another step to reduce its dependence on Nvidia. The software giant is developing a networking card to ensure that data moves quickly between its servers, as an alternative to one supplied by Nvidia, said a person with direct knowledge. In addition to potentially saving Microsoft money, the company hopes the new networking gear will improve the performance of its Nvidia chip servers. That could help OpenAI, which... Read more âș
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When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week posted a series of ultrarealistic and cinematic videos made by Sora, his companyâs latest artificial intelligence technology, we imagined alarm bells ringing across the technology industry and, perhaps, Hollywood. Most of all, the videos should put fear in the hearts of at least seven companies in our Generative AI Database that develop AI video generatorsâand the investors who collectively gave them more than... Read more âș
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Last year, the second most downloaded free app in the U.S. on iPhones was CapCut, a video-editing app made by TikTokâs parent ByteDance and popular with TikTok users who use its templates and filters to create videos for the app. But CapCutâunlike TikTok itselfâis directly run by ByteDance executives in China, a point confirmed by a management shake-up at ByteDance earlier this month. Some inside ByteDance have worried over the... Read more âș
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In 2021, Europeâs electric vehicle market was feverish. Seemingly every week, automakers announced new plans to spend billions developing EVs. Those EVs would require batteries, and Swedenâs Northvolt, the most ambitious of a small coterie of European battery manufacturing startups, made plans to triple the capacity of its new gigafactory near the Arctic Circle. The project would cost billions and entail immense riskâfor one thing, Northvolt had not produced a... Read more âș
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Welcome to your Weekend!A couple days ago, Mark Zuckerberg had quite a lot to say about his companyâand someone elseâs. Specifically, he talked about how Meta Platformsâ virtual reality headset, the Quest (which starts at $499), compares to Appleâs VR headset, the Vision Pro ($3,499). âI expected Quest would be a better value for most people,â Zuckerberg said in an Instagram video. But after using a Vision Pro, he changed... Read more âș
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The anticipation that surrounded Appleâs Vision Pro, the multitrillion-dollar companyâs nearly $4,000 virtual reality headset, sure made some die-hards go to substantial lengths to lay their hands on one. Tina Debove Nigro, for instance, flew from Paris to Boston via ReykjavĂk, Iceland, to acquire the device as soon as humanly possible two weeks ago. âIt was another $1,000 for the flight and the Airbnbâ in Beantown, said the 27-year-old software... Read more âș
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Itâs beginning to feel a bit like early 2021. Investor enthusiasm for AI startups has surged again, after a brief respite, as we reported today. One great example from our story: Perplexity AI has received unsolicited offers valuing the firm at more than $1 billionâjust a month after its last funding round valued it at half that. Meanwhile, according to Bloomberg, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is looking to raise $100... Read more âș
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After a week of going full Vision Pro, the Lessins' reaction may surprise you. (It certainly surprised me.) This week's podcast covered all of that and zoomed out with some predictions about how this next tech battleground will play out. Plus, our take on the string of AI headlines this week. And the return of Pop Culture Corner! Listen here. Read more âș
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Faye Iosotaluno initially envisioned her familyâs December trip to New Zealand as a holiday-time sojourn, but a week before they left, she learned theyâd have another reason to celebrate. Sheâd gotten the top job at Tinder, after a lengthy stretch as its chief operating officer. For Iosotaluno, the role would mean a plunge deeper into tumultuous water. Tinder, the most important part of its publicly traded corporate parent, Match Group,... Read more âș
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Readers of The Information are optimistic about the tech sector: More than 62% of respondents to our most recent survey expect conditions to improve over the next six months, the highest such percentage since we began asking that question a year ago. The favorable outlook extends to most of the 14 big tech companies we ask about each month. Optimists outnumbered pessimists for eight of the 14. Sentiment improved for... Read more âș
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For a brief period at the start of this year, it looked like venture capitalistsâ hunger for artificial intelligence startups was ebbing, spooked by lofty prices and increasing competition from big companies like Google. But in recent weeks, investors have shown the kind of unbridled enthusiasm that colored much of last yearâand startups are looking to capitalize. Scale AI, which labels images or text to teach AI models to recognize... Read more âș
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Sequoia Capital is pushing for one of its most venerated former partners, Michael Moritz, to step down from his personal board position at the âbuy now, pay laterâ company Klarna. Sequoia partner Matthew Miller in recent days asked shareholders at Klarna to remove Moritz from the board of directors, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said. Roelof Botha, Sequoiaâs chief, also told Klarna shareholders Miller had Sequoiaâs full... Read more âș
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Last November, one of the most important private technology businesses in the worldâOpenAIânearly collapsed overnight over a governance crisis. Its nonprofit board announced to the world that it had lost confidence in CEO Sam Altmanâs ability to lead, and it ousted him. Most of the people who worked there threatened to quit. Altman was brought back after a tense negotiation culminating in the decision that there would be a new... Read more âș
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After Sam Altmanâs sudden firing last year, I argued the chaos that followed his short-lived ouster would inject a healthy dose of caution into venture investments in artificial intelligence companies. I figured weâd finally reached the peak of the AI venture capital frenzy when a threatened employee exodus from OpenAI risked sending the value of the $86 billion AI juggernaut almost to zero. There was plenty of other proof that... Read more âș
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