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. Rubinâs startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more âș
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It seemed like a surefire way to juice investor demand in a tough market: Instacart lined up a group of existing and new investors, ranging from Sequoia Capital to Norwayâs sovereign wealth fund, to buy up to $400 million, or 60% of the stock it planned to sell in its September initial public offering. In the days leading up to the IPO, bankers working on it told investors they had... Read more âș
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Uber is finally on the right road. That could be Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahiâs motto today, as the ride-hailing and food-delivery conglomerate demonstrates that its cash-printing press is revving up. After producing a small amount of cash last year, Uberâs free cash flow more than doubled in the third quarter to $905 million, while for the year to date it has generated $2.6 billion. Wowee.Sure, thatâs not exactly a fat... Read more âș
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As funding for creator economy startups has dried up, some companies are turning to unconventional means to raise money. In March, the newsletter platform Substack raised $7.8 million in what it called a âcommunity round,â inviting its writers to invest in the company. Now, more startups are following in its footsteps.On Tuesday, Gigmor, which connects independent musicians with event bookers and fans, opened its crowdfunded round to the public. The... Read more âș
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Zeus Living, a property management startup that raised $150 million from tech investors, is âwinding down operations,â the firm told landlords this week. The shutdown is the latest blow to a real estate tech sector struggling because of rising interest rates. Zeus leased homes and apartments, furnished them and then sublet them to corporate workers looking for extended stays in about a dozen U.S. cities through its own site and... Read more âș
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One of OpenSeaâs biggest investors has marked down by 90% its stake in the struggling non-fungible-token marketplace, implying that the former crypto darling is now valued at $1.4 billion or less on paper. Coatue Management, a New Yorkâbased hedge and venture fund, slashed the value of its $120 million stake in the company to $13 million as of the second quarter of this year, according to a document viewed by... Read more âș
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Major Chinese venture capital firms are quietly investing in American artificial intelligence startups, undeterred by growing concerns from U.S. officials about Chinese involvement in local technology firms. For example, Sequoia Capital China, the biggest VC firm by assets in mainland China, recently invested in UTA, or Universal Travel Assistant, a California-based stealth startup thatâs developing an AI chatbot to help people plan and book trips, according to two people with... Read more âș
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Shein has hired TikTok owner ByteDanceâs top U.S. logistics executive, Wei âAndyâ Huang, to lead its fulfillment and logistics operations. The hiring is a big win for the China-founded fast-fashion giant as it tries to edge out TikTok in the online shopping arena. The hiring is also a sign of Sheinâs ambitions to compete directly with U.S. e-commerce giants like Amazon by beefing up distribution operations in the U.S. and... Read more âș
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Despite Elon Muskâs attempts to steal the spotlight, the AI community gave its undivided attention on Monday to OpenAIâs first-ever live event for developers and the press. The large-language model developer didnât announce any mind-blowing research breakthroughs, but several of its product improvements undoubtedly will hurt some smaller, high-profile startups and light a fire under bigger competitors such as Anthropic and Meta Platforms. OpenAI also cut prices and said it... Read more âș
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Trucking startup Convoy abruptly shut down last month, while freight forwarder Flexportâs revenue has cratered. Other supply chain unicorns are now trying to prove they will have a different fate. Previously unreported financial data for three other major supply chain startups, including Project44 and Cart.com, show all of them are on track for decent double-digit percentage revenue growth this year. And with venture dollars drying up, these startups are scrambling... Read more âș
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The good news from techâs earnings season, so far, is that the ad market appears to have recovered a lot from the worst of the downturn. But thatâs likely not true for enterprise software. While we havenât yet heard earnings updates from most enterprise software firms, some of those who have reported suggest that business remains weak, thanks to a software spending pullback by corporate America. Itâs no wonder that... Read more âș
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Weâre starting the week off with a scoop about Instagramâs efforts to court creators. Instagramâs Threads recently invited some creators to join âPops,â a new community of reality TV and pop culture creators on the text-based app. Among other incentives, it will offer challenges where creators compete to win unnamed âspecial prizes,â we are the first to report. Separately, the Meta Platforms-owned app is giving holiday bonuses to some creators... Read more âș
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Elon Musk finally unveiled his alternative to OpenAIâs ChatGPT, which he developed because he felt it was too woke, as my colleagues first revealed eight months ago. Why do it on a Sunday? Perhaps because OpenAIâs Dev Day event in San Francisco is this morning, and Muskâs xAI team was hoping to upstage it. (Musk also doesnât distinguish between weekdays and weekends, much to the dismay of our social media... Read more âș
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The Walt Disney Co. has been a scene of near-constant reorganization for the past few years. And more of that is likely to come as Disney, along with other entertainment companies, tries to get the right structure in place to cope with changes in the industry caused by the rise of streaming video. The most recent shakeup came Monday, as Disney named PepsiCo vice chairman and chief financial officer Hugh... Read more âș
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Massachusetts-based battery developer 24M Technologies claims it has significantly increased how tightly electrodes can be stacked in a battery pack, improving energy density and electric vehicle driving range. If 24Mâs assertions are true, its new battery could outperform groundbreaking, roughly similar batteries made by Chinaâs Byd and Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd., the worldâs two largest EV battery manufacturers. Read more âș
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Palo Alto Networks is close to acquiring Israeli startup Talon Cyber Security in a deal that could value it at $600 million to $700 million, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The deal could be announced as soon as Monday, one of the people said. The acquisition would extend Palo Alto Networksâ acquisitions of small cybersecurity startups and add another offering to its suite of enterprise security software... Read more âș
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.For the past five weeks, The Informationâs crypto reporter Aidan Ryan has been taking one for the team, rising long before dawn to commute to the U.S. courthouse in Lower Manhattan. Once there, heâd grab a place in line and wait on the sidewalk for hours, huddling in the dark and sometimes the pouring rain, until the court opened and the crypto trial of the century... Read more âș
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In the most overheated technology debate of our timeâthe societal impact of artificial intelligenceâFei-Fei Li finds herself precariously balanced in the middle. A Stanford University computer science professor and co-head of its Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Li is neither a Geoffrey Hintonâesque doomer, fretting that the machines weâve created will slaughter us, nor an unbridled techno-optimist (to use Marc Andreessenâs self-identifier), who equates regulating AI with impeding prog Read more âș
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In Bradley Tuskâs new satirical novel, âObvious in Hindsight,â no one is safe from skeweringâincluding the author. When I asked Tusk whether his cast of conniving characters is based on people heâs encountered in his long, drama-filled career in politics and tech, or whether they are actually all versions of himself, he admitted, âA little bit of both.â The bookâs plot includes the delusional founder of a flying-car startup who... Read more âș
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What a week Tim Cook had. On Thursday, Apple reported anemic September-quarter results, completing a fiscal year where revenues fell 2.8%. Thatâs actually not a bad result given that the smartphone market that drives Appleâs business shrank 10.5% in the same 12-month period, according to IDC data. Still, it is yet another reminder (if any were needed) that Apple is no longer a growth company. Cookâs other big event this... Read more âș
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This week, the United States and the European Union tipped their hands on how they plan to regulate AI. The rules amounted to a sea change in the relationship bewteen tech businesses and the government and spurred a whole lot of thinking on our part about what comes next. We hope you enjoy. Apple Spotify YouTube Read more âș
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