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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The Securities and Exchange Commissionâs latest crackdown on Wall Street bankers and tradersâ use of encrypted apps is sparking interest in whether large-language models and other artificial intelligence tools can catch Wall Street workers talking in code about something they shouldnât beâor switching to an encrypted app to continue a conversation. Itâs not easy. When chatting over text, people can be cryptic even when theyâre not trying to evade rules.... Read more âș
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Alphabetâs biggest âother bet,â part of the blue-sky investment projects carved off from the companyâs Google ad-based empire several years ago, is moving toward the exits. Stephen Gillett, CEO of Verily, an Alphabet subsidiary that aims to apply data analytics to healthcare, told employees this month that by the end of 2024 it would stop using its parent company for a wide range of corporate services, from real estate to... Read more âș
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Most auto companies and their customers are obsessed with how far electric vehicles will go on a charge. To be taken seriously, most carmakers think an EV should have 250 to 300 miles of range; 400 to 500 miles on a charge is the ultragold standard. EVs that deliver such long range are kings of the hill.Lucid Motors says this thinking is all wrong. What sets a terrific EV apart... Read more âș
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Believe it or not, U.S. companiesâ biggest antitrust irritant may not be Lina Khanâs Federal Trade Commission. International regulatorsâmainly in China and Britainâare increasingly elbowing their way into foreign deals that donât obviously require their attention. The latest example is Intelâs decision on Wednesday to walk away from its $5.4 billion acquisition of Israeli chipmaker Tower Semiconductor because it couldnât get approval from the Chinese government. Whatâs worse: When it... Read more âș
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When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the war took over social media as people outside the country posted videos and photos pledging support for the residents. Ordinary people as well as professional creators also published updates from Ukraine, including a livestream of the invasion on Twitch. But 18 months later, itâs no longer a prominent topic on social media feeds around the world.From February to July, about 212,000 videos... Read more âș
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Enterprise software firm Databricks is in early discussions with investors for a new cash infusion, likely totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, as it looks to capitalize on the fervor over artificial intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said. The investment talks come as Databricks has moved closer to break-even, after losing a total of about $900 million, excluding depreciation and amortization, in its last two fiscal years. That... Read more âș
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Unless youâre running an AI startup, itâs tough to raise money these days. Thatâs especially true for crypto companies, where global venture funding fell by 78% in the first half compared to the same period last year, according to data from PitchBook.Crypto focused venture capitalists still have plenty of money to put to work though, and several have told me that theyâve increasingly been buying more shares in secondary deals.... Read more âș
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Hello!One of the earliest companies to commercialize generative AI was GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code repository, which released its AI coding assistant Copilot under preview in June 2021. Powered by OpenAIâs technology, the assistant quickly captured the hearts of developers by giving them a tool that suggests code fragments while they type, similar to autocomplete in Gmail. Last September, just a few months after GitHub began charging developers $10 per month... Read more âș
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As Meta Platforms has tried to cut costs and trim headcount over the past year, one area has emerged as an exception: generative artificial intelligence. Caught flat-footed by the explosion of interest in OpenAIâs ChatGPT, Meta scrambled to put together a team in February focused on the buzzy technology in the hopes of deploying it in features and tools across its apps. The leader of the unit, former Apple executive... Read more âș
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For years, politicians and the public have attacked the leaders of companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google, arguing they had their âthumbs on the scalesâ of political discourse. Critics worried these companies had too much power over how content was amplified on their sites, were picking winners and losers in elections, and on and on.And so it was sort of stunning today to learn that Elon Muskâthe new owner of... Read more âș
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In early August, Elon Musk said X would only take a cut of its creatorsâ subscription revenue on the platform if their payouts topped $100,000 in lifetime earnings, a more generous offer than Muskâs prior deal, which delayed taking its 10% cut for the first 12 months of a creatorâs subscription revenue. The move looked designed to attract more creators to sell subscriptions on X, which in turn could boost... Read more âș
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With AI technology progressing, itâs getting increasingly difficult to tell what content is real and whatâs not. While many deepfakes are for entertainment purposes, more and more of them are being used to defraud people or influence elections. In partnership with Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs, The Informationâs Margaux MacColl sat down to discuss misinformation and deepfakes with three experts: Ben Colman: Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator Alum & co-founder and... Read more âș
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Historically (and much to the dismay of people born in May and June), the word âGeminiâ has been associated with being âtwo-facedâ or having dual personalities.  So itâs somewhat fitting, then, that Googleâs upcoming collection of large machine-learning models using that name was borne out of the forced marriage of two AI teams, Google Brain and DeepMind, with diverging and sometimes conflicting philosophies and histories.The Gemini models, which The Information... Read more âș
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In April, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai took an unusual step: merging two large artificial intelligence teamsâwith distinct cultures and codeâto catch up to and surpass OpenAI and other rivals. Now the test of that effort is coming, with hundreds of people scrambling to release a group of large machine-learning modelsâone of the highest-stakes products the company has ever builtâthis fall. The models, collectively known as Gemini, are expected to give... Read more âș
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When CMC Capital, a Shanghai-based venture capital and private equity firm, started raising a new fund from global investors in 2021, its target size of more than $1 billion didnât seem ambitious. The amount was only a tad more than the firmâs previous fund of $950 million. And CMCâs founder, Li Ruigang, is a well-known media mogul, sometimes referred to as Chinaâs Rupert Murdoch, who has a stake in the... Read more âș
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Venture-backed consumer lending startups are starting to fold their cards. Happy Money, an online lending startup formerly known as Payoff, is in talks to sell itself, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The Torrance, Calif.-based company, valued at $1.1 billion in a private financing announced in February last year, has held sale discussions with at least one financial institution, the person said. And Sable, a Y... Read more âș
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One of the more fun business stories of recent weeks was the pressure campaign waged by an activist investor againstâwait for itâCarl Icahn, an activism icon for decades! Few other activists run public companies, as Icahn does, so weâre unlikely to see something like this repeated. But it is a good reminder that activists, who like to point out where CEOs go wrong, arenât exactly infallible. One common activist shortcoming... Read more âș
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Asset manager Yieldstreet is near a deal to buy Cadre, a once-promising real estate investment firm whose value has fallen sharply in recent years, said people familiar with the situation. If the two sides finalize an agreement, it would be the latest sign that mergers and acquisitions activity among troubled startups is beginning to pick up as founders accept that valuations are not likely to recover. Cadre shareholders are expected... Read more âș
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Creatorsâ success on social media often has a limited shelf life. They need to generate a constant stream of new content, keep up with frequent changes on social platforms and deal with inconsistent income. So many are starting offline brands to expand their businesses and find new ways to connect with their fans. Take Cassey Ho, 36, who started her career on YouTube in 2009 posting Pilates videos and eventually... Read more âș
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You know those horror stories of people who leave a faucet running in their house while on vacation for a week, returning to a flooded residence? That kind of thing is happening in AI.Edo Liberty, founder of Pinecone, a buzzy infrastructure startup which helps developers build AI applications using their own data, says he heard about an intern at a company who accidentally spent half a million dollars worth of... Read more âș
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