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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For years, Coinbase dominated the U.S. market as the go-to place for buying and selling bitcoin. Now the crypto exchange is trying to forge a new identity as the backbone of an entire financial system, using its Base blockchain, which it launched last year. To catch on with users and make money, Coinbase needs to attract outside apps offering lending, international payments and other financial services to its blockchain. The... Read more ›
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Over the past decade, investor Daniel Gross has written checks for over 150 startups, including Cruise, Coinbase and Rippling. If there’s one deal that could define his legacy, though, you’ll find it a short walk away from his investment office in Palo Alto, Calif., at the headquarters of Safe Superintelligence Inc. The artificial intelligence lab is one of the buzziest startups in AI, largely because it was co-founded by Ilya... Read more ›
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Here’s a question that’s sure to divide your household: Is Amazon’s $100 million podcast deal with the Kelce brothers a bet on Travis Kelce marrying Taylor Swift? The consensus here at The Information is yes, for sure. While the Kelce brothers’ podcast, “New Heights,” was popular before Travis and Taylor became a thing, it really took off afterward. That implies that if the couple breaks up, the podcast’s audience is... Read more ›
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Typically when something bad happens to the founder of a highly valued private tech startup, the venture investors are at the front lines of the fallout—and in some cases can influence the outcome. I know this from reporting on FTX’s collapse (a wipeout for investors like Sequoia Capital and Paradigm) and then the firing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, when VC investors threatened to sue if he didn’t return. But... Read more ›
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It’s been a tumultuous year for TikTok employees, between a looming potential ban of the app in the U.S. to its first widespread layoffs earlier this year. Those changes have included the departures of long-time staff and senior leaders.The latest: Nicole Iacopetti, head of content strategy and policy, is leaving the company effective September 6, according to a note sent to some staff from TikTok’s head of operations Adam Presser. Read more ›
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Shares of Super Micro, a major seller of servers powered by Nvidia artificial intelligence chips, fell 2.5% Tuesday after a notorious short seller alleged the company had manipulated its books. Hindenburg Research, which previously went after billionaire Carl Icahn and electric vehicle firm ... Read more ›
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The Amazon-owned podcast network Wondery has acquired the ‘New Heights’ podcast, hosted by Travis and Jason Kelce, in a $100 million deal, according to Variety. The deal gives Amazon exclusive ad-sales and distribution rights to the popular sports talk show. Travis Kelce, a tight end for ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is shutting Spark, its platform for businesses and creators to build augmented reality effects for Meta’s apps, the company said in a blog post Tuesday. Spark, which was launched in 2017, will be shut on January 14, 2025. Afterward, AR effects created and owned by third parties ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the Biden administration pressured Meta to remove posts related to Covid-19 and he regrets that Meta was not more outspoken about it. In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan Monday, Zuckerberg said the government in 2021 “ ... Read more ›
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In case you were wondering why Sam Altman cryptically posted a picture of strawberries earlier this month, the answer almost certainly has to do with Strawberry, a mysterious technical breakthrough that could help OpenAI’s models complete complex tasks such as math problems that conversational AI has traditionally struggled with. (If this sounds familiar, it’s likely because Strawberry was previously called Q*.)Why is Altman being so cheeky? Probably because the word... Read more ›
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As OpenAI looks to raise more capital, its researchers are trying to launch a new artificial intelligence product they believe can reason through tough problems much better than its existing AI. Researchers have aimed to launch the new AI, code-named Strawberry (previously called Q*, pronounced Q Star), as part of a chatbot—possibly within ChatGPT—as soon as this fall, said two people who have been involved in the effort. Strawberry can... Read more ›
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Elon Musk on Monday said he supported proposed California legislation to regulate artificial intelligence, becoming one of the few tech CEOs to publicly back the bill. His support contrasts with his frequent criticisms of government overreach. “This is a tough call and will make some people ... Read more ›
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There’s nothing like a billionaire’s arrest as they get off their private jet to alarm other rich people. The apprehension of Telegram founder Pavel Durov by French police as he deplaned over the weekend has more than a few techies worked up, particularly Elon Musk and other like-minded folks. Their message: This is a threat to free speech.Well, maybe. But the response from French authorities hinted that the issue was... Read more ›
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The recent arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is “part of an ongoing judicial investigation,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on X Monday. The case concerns a “person unnamed”, according to French prosecutors, who is suspected of crimes related to child pornography, drug dealing, and money ... Read more ›
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G Squared raised just over $1 billion to primarily purchase existing shares of startups from employees or other investors. This will be the firm’s sixth fund and is roughly the same size as its last. The Chicago-based venture capital firm will invest 70 to 80% of the fund’s money in secondary ... Read more ›
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Luca Maestri, who has been Chief Financial Officer of Apple for a decade, will step down at the end of the year. He’ll be succeeded by Kevan Parekh, the vice president of financial planning and analysis, Apple said. Maestri isn’t leaving, however. He will “continue to lead the ... Read more ›
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Toncoin, the token of The Open Network, a blockchain integrated with Telegram, fell after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was detained in France on Saturday over claims that messaging service failed to crack down on crime on the app. The price of Toncoin, or TON, plunged 20% on Saturday before paring ... Read more ›
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Shares of Temu parent company PDD Holdings fell nearly 25% in morning trading Monday after the Chinese e-commerce giant warned that revenue growth would slow amid mounting competition. The company reported revenue of $13.36 billion for the second quarter, which represented an 86% increase from a ... Read more ›
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Dozens of former artificial intelligence researchers from Google who struck out on their own are learning that startups are tricky.The latest example is French AI agent developer H, which lost three of its five cofounders (four of whom are ex-Googlers) just months after announcing they had raised $220 million from investors in a “seed” round, as our colleagues reported Friday. The founders had “operational and business disagreements,” one of them... Read more ›
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In the nearly one year since Instacart went public, it has had an unlikely cheerleader: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. He extolled his grocery-delivery rival’s “very strong advertising product” at an investor conference in March. He admired Instacart's “very high quality” suburban customer base in comments made after Uber and Instacart struck a restaurant delivery partnership a month later. So far, that partnership has been “an excellent one,” he said on... Read more ›
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