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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OpenAI is preparing to launch a frontal assault on Google. The ChatGPT owner recently considered developing a web browser that it would combine with its chatbot, and it has separately discussed or struck deals to power search features for travel, food, real estate and retail websites, according to people who have seen prototypes or designs of the products. OpenAI has spoken about the search product with website and app developers... Read more ›
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Two Republican senators are putting together a new bill that would require app stores to bear the burden of determining how old app users are, the Washington Post reported. The bill would be a win for Meta Platforms, which has repeatedly argued that the responsibility for age verification should ... Read more ›
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Susquehanna Nuclear, the Pennsylvania-based company involved in a deal to sell power to Amazon Web Services data centers, asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday to reconsider its recent decision to reject the deal. AWS planned to buy up to 1 gigawatt of power from Susquehanna ... Read more ›
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As Republicans sweeping to power in Washington call for bringing the great tech powers to heel, one of those big companies has mostly escaped their wrath: Microsoft. Brad Smith, the company’s president and main liaison to Washington, is trying to keep it that way. In the months before Donald Trump’s reelection, Microsoft staffers were in steady contact with his campaign and the Republican National Committee, providing tech support for the... Read more ›
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Amazon on Thursday added a temporary 50% discount to all orders made through its new Temu competitor, Amazon Haul. The aggressive discounting coincides with the holiday shopping season and comes one week after Amazon launched Haul, which features a Temu-like assortment of cheap products like $3 ... Read more ›
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will launch more investigations into big payments fintechs including Apple Pay, PayPal and Cash App, after finalizing a new rule aimed at protecting customers from fraud, data sharing and debanking. The CFPB new rule will allow it a greater focus on ... Read more ›
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PDD Holdings said its revenue grew 44% year-on-year to $14.16 billion in the September quarter, a sharp slowdown from an 86% increase the same period a year earlier. The China-founded Temu parent company cited “intensified competition and ongoing external challenges” as a reason for the slowing ... Read more ›
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There’s a lot of excitement around artificial intelligence disrupting search. Consumers and businesses increasingly use AI tools in lieu of traditional search engines such as Google. OpenAI has added search features to ChatGPT, Meta Platforms is crawling and indexing the web for its Meta AI chatbot and the AI search startup Perplexity is nearing a $9 billion valuation. A host of other AI companies provide information about current events in... Read more ›
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This isn’t the year to be in marketing software. Companies’ marketing spending as a percentage of sales is at a five-year low, according to data from Gartner. That has hurt big software companies like Salesforce and Adobe, which get a chunk of revenue from selling marketing tools. It’s also hurt smaller marketing software firms such as Braze, whose shares have fallen roughly 30% so far this year. But investors are... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group is placing all of its e-commerce businesses, both domestic and international, under one umbrella overseen by a single executive, according to a person close to the company, as the Chinese tech giant seeks to keep up with fast-moving competitors. The newly formed Alibaba E-Commerce Group, comprising domestic marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, as well as overseas shopping sites such as AliExpress, Lazada, Trendyol, will be led by Jiang Fan,... Read more ›
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The U.S. Department of Justice late Wednesday asked a federal judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser and potentially its Android operating system to undo Google’s illegal search monopoly. The DOJ, which won an antitrust case against Google over the summer, also requested that Google ... Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he doesn’t expect the rate of improvement of large language models to slow down, despite recent reports that upcoming LLMs from his company as well as from Google and OpenAI didn’t show as many performance gains compared to earlier models. The Information reported ... Read more ›
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Nvidia investors are, let’s face it, a bit like spoiled children. Here’s a company that posts a 94% increase in revenue from a year ago, which is quite a bit better than it had projected, and the stock falls! Sure, Nvidia’s growth rate has come down from the blazing-fast 260% or so of a few quarters ago, but did anyone imagine the company could maintain that pace?The chip designer, which... Read more ›
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Publicly traded ad tech giant The Trade Desk is building a TV operating system for streaming. It’s a notable move, given most of the dominant smart TV operating systems on the market have come from TV businesses, such as Roku, Samsung or LG, or big tech firms, like Amazon or Google. The Trade ... Read more ›
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Nvidia on Wednesday said revenue rose 94% year-over-year to $35.1 billion in the October quarter, continuing its two-year streak of blowing past its own growth projections as more artificial intelligence developers and cloud providers gobble up its data center chips. The revenue growth was 14.5 ... Read more ›
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Next year, expect more companies to hire creators as employees, either to represent their brands to the public or run their social strategies.On Monday I spoke to two creators who have joined companies in the past few years: Morning Brew’s Dan Toomey, who runs the media outlet’s Good Work YouTube channel, which covers business and finance topics, and Rashad Assir, the face of Redpoint Ventures’ TikTok account, where he films... Read more ›
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Shares of database provider Snowflake jumped more than 19% in the wake of its report after dropping less than 1% in regular trading. Investors seemed to be encouraged that the company sailed well past its earlier quarterly product revenue projections and raised its full-year ... Read more ›
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To call the last two years “tepid” for tech initial public offerings would be an understatement. In the wake of a record-smashing high in 2021, IPO deal proceeds plummeted 94% in 2022 and have been slow to recover. But 2025 could be looking up, with some big names likely to hit exchanges. At a recent event about artificial intelligence’s impact on the IPO market, Anita Ramaswamy, The Information’s financial analysis... Read more ›
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Digital Currency Group, the parent company of crypto asset manager Grayscale, is launching a decentralized artificial intelligence subsidiary called Yuma, led by DCG founder and CEO Barry Silbert, who will also serve as the subsidiary’s CEO. Yuma will invest in and build on Bittensor, a ... Read more ›
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Database provider Snowflake is talking with OpenAI rival Anthropic about letting Snowflake’s customers use Anthropic’s large language models to build artificial intelligence–powered applications, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The Anthropic agreement, if consummated, could help CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy address investors’ concerns about Snowflake’s ability to compete with rivals like Databricks, Microsoft, and Amazon for generative AI business. Snowflake’s stock has fallen 35% so fa Read more ›
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