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Anissa Gardizy @ The Information · 10/28/2024 17:09 EDT

Elon Musk’s Memphis, Tenn., data center for xAI has drawn an enormous amount of attention—from people who believe his claims that he built the world’s largest AI cluster in just 19 days, an unbelievably short timeframe, and those who are skeptical he actually pulled it off. On Monday Musk got ... Read more â€ș

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Stephanie Palazzolo @ The Information · 10/28/2024 17:07 EDT

Some 75% of OpenAI’s revenue comes from consumers paying for its AI-powered chatbot and other products, a company spokesperson said on Monday. That means that the vast majority of the $4 billion the company was recently on track to generate this year will come from consumers, rather than ... Read more â€ș

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Abram Brown @ The Information · 10/28/2024 16:21 EDT

Michael Bloomberg Donates $50 Million to Harris

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the owner of Bloomberg LP and former New York City mayor, has made a $50 million gift to support Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, according to The New York Times. Bloomberg hasn’t been nearly as active in the 2024 election as he had been in the ... Read more â€ș

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Kalley Huang @ The Information · 10/28/2024 16:19 EDT

Meta Platforms is working on a search engine that crawls and indexes the web so its artificial intelligence assistant can provide information about current events and news, The Information reported. The work aims to lessen Meta’s reliance on Google Search and Microsoft’s Bing, which currently ... Read more â€ș

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Aaron Holmes @ The Information · 10/28/2024 15:09 EDT

Microsoft on Monday accused Google of running “shadow campaigns” to turn monopoly regulators and the public against the enterprise and cloud incumbent and distract them from Google’s own antitrust woes. While Google has publicly alleged Microsoft is stifling competition in the cloud computing ... Read more â€ș

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Steve LeVine @ The Information 3 place · 10/28/2024 15:06 EDT

Struggling Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt failed to pay employees of its shuttered Cuberg subsidiary a scheduled final paycheck this month, or for their remaining paid time off, as required by California law, according to four former Cuberg employees. The missed payments came as Northvolt, once the darling of Europe’s clean tech industry, attempts to raise a $300 million rescue package amid slow sales and a canceled multi-billion order from one... Read more â€ș

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Natasha Mascarenhas @ The Information · 10/28/2024 13:00 EDT

Why AI Founders Are Starting Their Own Venture Funds

It hasn’t been this hard for first-time fund managers to raise capital in about a decade. But one group of newbie venture capitalists is having more luck: founders and other alumni of artificial intelligence startups. One example is Jeff Arnold, co-founder and chief operating officer of artificial intelligence accounting company Pilot and former head of operations at OpenAI for a brief period in its early days. He and Paul Jun,... Read more â€ș

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Kalley Huang @ The Information 2 place · 10/28/2024 11:00 EDT

Meta Develops AI Search Engine to Lessen Reliance on Google, Microsoft

As Meta Platforms tries to keep up with OpenAI in developing artificial intelligence, the Facebook owner is working on a search engine that crawls the web to provide conversational answers about current events to people using its Meta AI chatbot. In doing so, Meta hopes to lower its reliance on Google Search and Microsoft’s Bing, which currently provide information about news, sports and stocks to people using Meta AI, according... Read more â€ș

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Jon Victor @ The Information · 10/28/2024 10:15 EDT

Notion CEO Sees Flaws in Computer-Using Agents

Anthropic, OpenAI and now Google are betting that the future of artificial intelligence involves technology that can take over a person’s computer and automate all manner of work involving applications and internet browsers. (See my colleague Erin’s Saturday scoop on Google’s efforts here.)If these computer-using agents eventually work and the AI just does what someone asks it to do, without needing to lift a finger, one potential outcome is that... Read more â€ș

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Ann Gehan @ The Information · 10/28/2024 10:10 EDT

The RealReal announced Monday that John Koryl had left the company after less than two years as CEO and named Rahi Sati Levesque, a longtime executive at the luxury resale site, to the top role. Levesque, most recently the company’s president and chief operating officer, helped The RealReal’s ... Read more â€ș

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Anita Ramaswamy @ The Information · 10/28/2024 09:00 EDT

Apple’s Low-Cost AI Strategy Wins Over Investors, Despite Risks

Anyone looking at Apple’s recent stock rally—which lifted its market capitalization to $3.6 trillion two weeks ago, a record for any public company—wouldn’t know that the company’s big new product, the Vision Pro mixed reality headset, had sold so badly that Apple is scaling back production. Or that it’s been slow to introduce artificial intelligence features to its products, with the first coming this week. Or that sales of Apple’s... Read more â€ș

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Erin Woo @ The Information · 10/28/2024 00:43 EDT

Google Is Developing AI to Take Over Computers

Google is developing artificial intelligence that takes over a person’s web browser to complete tasks such as gathering research, purchasing a product or booking a flight, The Information reported Saturday. The product, code-named Project Jarvis, is similar to one Anthropic announced this ... Read more â€ș

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Laura Mandaro @ The Information · 10/27/2024 15:14 EDT

The Federal Trade Commission on Friday said Lyft had agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle charges the ride-hailing company had made deceptive claims about the money its drivers would make on the app. The antitrust agency disclosed the settlement the same day the Department of Justice sued Lyft ... Read more â€ș

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Juro Osawa @ The Information 3 place · 10/27/2024 08:32 EDT

Alibaba Group said it has agreed to pay $433.5 million to settle a U.S. class-action lawsuit that alleged the Chinese e-commerce giant made misstatements about its antitrust practices. The lawsuit, filed in March 2023 in the U.S. District Court, alleged that Alibaba violated federal securities ... Read more â€ș

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Erin Woo @ The Information 1 place · 10/26/2024 15:08 EDT

Google is developing artificial intelligence that takes over a person’s web browser to complete tasks such as gathering research, purchasing a product or booking a flight, according to three people with direct knowledge of the product. The product, code-named Project Jarvis, is similar to one Anthropic announced this week, these people said. Google plans to preview the product, also known as a computer-using agent, as early as December alongside the... Read more â€ș

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Jessica E. Lessin @ The Information 2 place · 10/26/2024 12:00 EDT

This week on More or Less: A feisty debate over Vision Pro and words of concern for all VCs. Plus, the latest in tech body hacking. Hope you enjoy! Spotify YouTube Apple Read more â€ș

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Abram Brown @ The Information · 10/26/2024 10:00 EDT

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:‱ The Big Read: Perplexity’s ‘newbie CEO’ hopes to dodge legal threats, Google competition‱ The Top 5: Best tools for introducing AI to kids‱ Plus: A dance with the dead; a delightful doomsday clock; and a data nerd fashionista.Six years ago, Patrick Soon-Shiong, a Los Angeles billionaire, spent a half-billion dollars on a valuable asset: the Los Angeles Times. Sure, he wasn’t buying The New York... Read more â€ș

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Paris Martineau @ The Information · 10/26/2024 08:00 EDT

Children and teens are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools for homework help and entertainment, as well as to seek out new information: In fact, a recent survey of more than 1,000 young people (and their parents) by Common Sense Media found that seven in 10 teenagers have already used generative AI tools. The survey found that just over half of teens have used chatbots like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini.... Read more â€ș

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The Information Staff @ The Information 3 place · 10/26/2024 04:27 EDT

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. earlier this month stopped making chips for a China-based chip design firm founded by a Chinese crypto mogul, said two people familiar with the situation. TSMC cut the company off around the time the U.S. Commerce Department began investigating whether the Taiwanese giant had supplied chips to Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies. Huawei has been prohibited since 2020 from acquiring chips made with U.S. technology, including... Read more â€ș

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Rocket Drew @ The Information · 10/25/2024 20:05 EDT

Agility, which makes humanoid robots for warehouses, is raising $150 million at about a $1 billion valuation in a funding round led by DCVC, Bloomberg reported. Agility was last valued at $550 million in 2022, according to PitchBook. The talks add to a string of fundraising discussions by ... Read more â€ș

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