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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IBM is shutting down its research and development operations in China, and the company plans to expand its R&D teams in other places such as India, The Wall Street Journal reported. The move, which will affect more than 1,000 China-based employees, comes at a time when some U.S. companies ... Read more ›
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French authorities have arrested the billionaire founder of the Telegram messaging app near Paris, according to Reuters, which cited French television reports. Pavel Durov, who had been traveling by private jet, was arrested at Bourget airport near Paris, TF1 TV and BFM TV reported, according to ... Read more ›
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This week, The Information's Co-Executive Editor Martin Peers was announced as a winner of a Loeb award—one of the highest honors in business journalism—for his career in editing. The Loeb Foundation asked The Information to write an article about Martin's impact on the industry. We were delighted to do so and hope you enjoy it. As a young reporter in Australia in the 1980s, Martin Peers covered crime in Tasmania,... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside an AI nightmare that tore apart a school• The Top 5: Our favorite THC drinks Plus: A chaotic AI bill; the philosophers with advice for childless millennials; and Shyamalan and the Swifties.Say, have you heard about a young fellow named Robby Starbuck? If you haven’t, write his name down because I could easily see the conservative activist becoming a force within... Read more ›
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Jake Bullock, a former Bain consultant in San Francisco turned cannabis entrepreneur, has bet tens of millions in venture capital on his bold vision for making drinks that get you just a little bit high. “I hope one day you’ll walk into a Costco and you’ll see the liquor, the wine and the beer, and maybe there’s some hard seltzers and ready-to-drink cocktails,” said Bullock. But then “there’s some THC-infused... Read more ›
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Nearly 200 employees at Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence unit signed a letter in May asking Google to investigate press reports that militaries and weapons manufacturers are using Google Cloud and to terminate access to DeepMind technology for military users, Time reported on Thursday. ... Read more ›
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Summer is winding down—Labor Day is just a week away! But we’ve still got plenty of business news. Next week is particularly important: Nvidia will report earnings for its July fiscal quarter on Wednesday. In a note to clients yesterday, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives described the Nvidia report as “the most important tech earnings in years,” one example of how obsessed Wall Street is with it.Ives’ description might be a... Read more ›
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"This is a time for serious people, people who take this business seriously." The gang was back to business this week discussing the latest in the venture shakeout. Plus, the energy is back in the Bay again. And a fierce debate over the Starlink Mini. Also, we continue to experiment with transcripts and chapters for subscribers thanks to the amazing AI features of Riverside. Find those after the links. Enjoy!... Read more ›
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New York investment firm Coatue Management, an early and substantial backer of ByteDance that has a seat on the TikTok parent’s board, is discussing selling part of its stake, according to three people with knowledge of the talks. The firm has talked to brokers in the secondary market for private stocks to gauge the interest of potential buyers. It is considering selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shares,... Read more ›
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On January 17, @murder_ink_bmore, a Baltimore-based Instagram account with 240,000 followers, posted what it said was a voice recording of Eric Eiswert, principal of Pikesville High School outside Baltimore, denigrating Black students and faculty as well as Jews. “I seriously don’t understand why I have to constantly put up with these dumbasses here every day,” said the voice that sounded like Eiswert. The speaker went on, singling out three Black... Read more ›
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Microsoft will host a summit with cybersecurity companies whose software is interoperable with Windows next month to discuss potential changes to Windows in light of the recent Crowdstrike outage, the company said on Friday. The July outage, which stemmed from a faulty software update sent out ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has canceled plans for a premium mixed-reality headset intended to compete with Apple’s Vision Pro, according to two Meta employees. Meta told employees at the company’s Reality Labs division to stop work on the device this week after a product review meeting attended by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth and other Meta executives, the employees said. Read more ›
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Three of the five co-founders of buzzy French artificial intelligence startup H, formerly known as Holistic, have left the company, one of the departing founders confirmed Friday. The startup, which was registered just four months ago, works on AI “agents” that handle multi-step tasks. In May, H ... Read more ›
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Shein said in an annual sustainability report released Thursday that it discovered two cases of child labor at contract manufacturers last year, and that it would crack down more aggressively on suppliers that use forced labor and child labor. The changes come as Shein aims to push back against ... Read more ›
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The fintech world is a tale of two cities. After a thrashing over the last two years, some big fintech startups, such as Stripe and Ramp, have seen their valuations rebound from the lows, as business improves and investor demand rises. Many other fintechs, including Brex, Chime and Plaid, have yet to crystallize a lower valuation in new fundraisings. But some trades on the secondary market suggest that if the... Read more ›
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Anthropic took a public position on SB 1047, California’s proposed artificial intelligence legislation, for the first time since the state legislature amended the bill to accommodate requests from the AI company. In a letter to Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Anthropic said the amended bill is “ ... Read more ›
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Investors are certainly giving Snowflake the cold shoulder. On Wednesday, the data analytics firm delivered an earnings update that showed July-quarter revenue above the company’s own projections and increased its estimate of full-year revenue growth for fiscal 2025 by two percentage points, to 26%. As Deutsche Bank analyst Brad Zelnick pointed out in a report, that rate of growth is better than those of most other large publicly listed software... Read more ›
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Noam Shazeer, the former CEO of Character.AI who rejoined Google this month, will be the co-technical lead on Google’s Gemini, most important artificial intelligence initiative, according to a message sent to staff on Thursday. Shazeer will work alongside longtime Google AI researchers Jeff Dean ... Read more ›
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A merger in the works between two struggling startups, online pharmacy Truepill and health test provider LetsGetChecked, signals a growing trend in an era of tough financing: deals between companies that share major shareholders. Dublin-based LetsGetChecked has offered to buy California-based Truepill for $500 million in stock and $25 million in cash, according to merger documents sent by Truepill CEO Paul Greenall to investors.The venture capital arm of UnitedHealth Group,... Read more ›
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Ever since the pandemic trapped shoppers at home in 2020, the athleisure market has gotten crowded. Startup brands like Alo Yoga and Skims have quickly scaled up to hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales, and retail giants like Nike and Lululemon have tried to keep up with customers’ changing tastes by adding trendier styles. One brand, Los Angeles-based activewear line Set Active, developed a cult following for its... Read more ›
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