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. Rubin’s startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more ›
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Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has lately taken to walking around his company’s Santa Monica, Calif., headquarters in the evenings, stopping at employees’ desks and asking what they’re working on. He has noticed, however, that he always spots the same handful of people working late in the office, he told employees at a recent all-hands meeting, according to two people who were present. The comment was interpreted as a... Read more ›
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Those who follow the fast-growing world of artificial intelligence chips may have noticed fanfare on Monday surrounding Nvidia’s new H200 AI chip, a successor to the vaunted H100 that everyone has been trying to get their hands on this year.But Nvidia’s announcement simply may have been an attempt to steal the spotlight from its biggest competitor, AMD, rather than show off a drastic technological improvement. After all, the H200’s architecture... Read more ›
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ByteDance is closing the revenue gap with Facebook owner Meta Platforms as it generates more sales from advertising and e-commerce. The Chinese owner of TikTok saw revenue surge more than 40% to $29 billion in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to people with knowledge of the figures. That’s a far higher growth rate than other advertising-powered internet companies, including Meta, whose revenue rose 11% to $32 billion... Read more ›
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Amazon has reached a deal with Snap that will let people buy Amazon products directly from ads on the Snapchat app, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed. The previously unreported arrangement closely resembles an ad partnership announced last week between Amazon and Meta Platforms, which lets people buy products through Amazon ads on Instagram and Facebook without leaving those apps. The two deals suggest Amazon is trying to make it easier for... Read more ›
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Today’s tech stock market is no country for unthinking investors. A bunch of stocks—among them Alphabet and Amazon—have gone nowhere amid the market gyrations of the past two years, while others such as Apple have seen OK but not great performance. That adjective can really only be applied to Nvidia, which has soared this year thanks to its market-cornering position in specialized artificial intelligence chips. The stock has appreciated 62%... Read more ›
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It’s Kalley again. On Friday, my colleague Sylvia and I reported on ongoing challenges at Meta Platforms over how to limit content that’s risky to young people. A centerpiece of the debate over youth safety and well-being is what sort of content Meta should limit on Instagram, Facebook and its other apps, and what the company should recommend. For at least two years, Meta’s employees proposed that the company stop... Read more ›
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Eighteen years after co-founding YouTube, Chad Hurley is back with a new startup, EyeTell, which uses artificial intelligence to generate short-form video scripts and content, according to two people familiar with the matter. The five-month-old startup has raised a seed round led by Kevin Hartz’s A-Star Capital with an investment from Ron Conway’s SV Angel, according to one of the people. The size of the investment and valuation could not... Read more ›
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Almost no startup benefited more from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank than Brex, which saw a surge in deposits from young companies who use its credit card and cash management products. But that growth spurt has petered out in recent months, internal data reveal, putting more pressure on the company to ramp up its expense software diversification. In the third quarter, the company had annualized net revenue of $283... Read more ›
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After reading my colleague Jon Victor’s piece Friday morning, I called up my 16-year-old brother to give him some career advice: Become an AI researcher.As Jon’s piece details, the market for AI talent is heating up, with recruiters from top companies like OpenAI and Google dangling lucrative compensation packages in front of AI researchers. OpenAI, for instance, has promised annual compensation of between $5 million and $10 million, mostly in... Read more ›
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If 2022 was a year of shock and denial for tech founders and investors as stocks collapsed, 2023 was a year of acceptance of their harsh new reality. Startups slashed headcount. Founders swallowed their pride and accepted ego-shattering down rounds just to survive. Venture capitalists cut ambitious targets for the size of their next funds and made tough choices about which startups in their portfolios they would keep supporting—and which... Read more ›
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In the 2000s, Mujeeb Ijaz—managing a team that made experimental electric vehicles for Ford—designed a sedan that would operate on two batteries rather than just one, like most EVs even today. One battery would be conventional lithium-ion, and the other a hydrogen fuel cell. The magic of the approach was that the car—a Ford Focus—could deliver hundreds of miles of range, which was a lot for the time: When the... Read more ›
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Adventurer: Guy Kawasaki Escapades: Hockey with his sons, surfing the shores of Santa Cruz, India and Australia The tides rule Guy Kawasaki’s life. “I almost called you up today to postpone this interview to go surf,” he laughed during a recent call from his home in Santa Cruz, Calif. “All my meetings, interviews, podcast recordings— everything is scheduled around the tide.” Long before Kawasaki, now 69, picked up surfing at... Read more ›
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Today marks the opening of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperative Summit in San Francisco, which is basically NBA All-Star weekend for government people. For the next seven days, our one-name tech leaders (Sam, Elon, Marc, Sundar) will play unofficial hosts to their lawmaking counterparts from around the globe (Joe, Xi, Fumio, Justin).It’s a chance for San Francisco to show off its best side—the views, the food, the... Read more ›
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It’s been a good week for shareholders in Uber, the ride-hailing giant, which reported solid third-quarter earnings on Tuesday. Investors seemed to have anticipated the report: The stock had been rallying for a couple of weeks. By the time the market closed on Friday, Uber was at $51.58, up 27% since late October and at its highest point since mid-2021. Uber now has a market capitalization of nearly $106 billion.... Read more ›
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So, have you built your GPT yet? What are you going to try first? It will not surprise you that the More or Less gang was brimming with ideas about OpenAI's lastest demos and what they mean for the AI arms race. Some of us had some skeptism, of course. Still, a big week, and we had a lot of fun unpacking it and sharing the pop culture binges getting... Read more ›
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Before Meta Platforms decided in June to lower the minimum age for usage of some Quest virtual headsets to 10 from 13, employees had warned that the move increased the risk that children would see content on the app store meant for older people, two people with knowledge of the situation said. The issue was part of a broader debate inside Meta about the company’s responsibility to children when it... Read more ›
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It’s been a rough two years of headlines for Airbnb: hosts sneaking guests in through freight elevators, massive spiders hiding in the ceiling, tens of thousands of complaints about the platform’s ever-increasing fees. And that’s not even including the company’s legal issues, like New York’s recent crackdown on the service. Enter Jay Carney, Airbnb’s global head of policy and communications, who was brought on by Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky late... Read more ›
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There’s audience engagement, and then there’s fandom—people who connect passionately with a brand. But how do companies create breakthrough experiences and stories to reach them? Meredith Mazzilli, editor at The Information, facilitated a discussion with three marketers with deep expertise in this arena: Alison Levin, vice president, global media revenue, Roku Val Kaplan, global senior vice president, head of consumer marketing, Pluto TV Courtney Larson, head of brand marketing, Doritos,... Read more ›
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Gen Z, ages 13 through 26, has been the force behind fashion trends and political movements. Most can’t recall a time before smartphones. They’ve lived their entire lives connected digitally. What’s more, they are highly suspicious of traditional marketing tactics. Instead, they embrace YouTube and Snapchat. So how do brands stay relevant and connected to this generation? Erin Woo, reporter for The Information, led a vibrant discussion on how brands... Read more ›
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Karla Mellinger doesn’t care about the metaverse. “It’s silly,” said the 62-year-old from Spokane, Wash., who works as a credit manager at a company that manufactures steel studs used in construction. “The whole thing is just silly.” And yet, five days a week, Mellinger straps on a Meta Quest 2 virtual reality headset and dives into Supernatural, a VR fitness program that lets players work out on the Great Wall... Read more ›
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