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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You have to wonder whatâs going on with the systems Meta Platforms uses to pay creators. Some this week have seen an alert that their accounts are restricted from making money due to âunusual activity.â That follows a glitch we covered last week that vastly inflated Facebook creatorsâ estimated earnings from posting Reels with licensed music. And Iâve learned about a previously unreported problem some creators encountered earlier this year,... Read more âș
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Tome, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to make it easier to create and design presentations, has talked to investors about raising new money that could double its valuation to up to $600 million, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The new financing could amount to $60 million, according to one of the people, and comes while the nearly three-year-old company has generated barely any revenue.... Read more âș
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Crypto regulation has been a hot topic in 2023, thanks to the Securities and Exchange Commissionâs lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance. But crypto companies have much more to deal with than federal regulators.Case in point: Last week, as CEO Brian Armstrong and other Coinbase executives were discussing second-quarter results with analysts, Coinbase policy leaders were hosting the crypto exchangeâs first policy town hall at the Roxy Hotel in downtown Manhattan.... Read more âș
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AI founders need to watch out. Itâs no secret that publishers and writers are sensitive about large-language models using their data for training. But just how sensitive became clear in the recent shuttering of a six-year-old publishing dataset called Prosecraft.The service, created in 2017 by Benji Smith, founder and CEO at word processor Shaxpir, was intended to be a helpful resource to authors. It ranked titles based on how passive... Read more âș
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Adobe jumped into the generative artificial intelligence race in March by releasing a beta version of Firefly, which generates images based on text prompts. As it competes with smaller startups such as OpenAI and Runway, the 41-year-old software giantâwhich has more than 28,000 employeesâis leaning on its practice of having teams report to multiple leaders instead of a single manager, said three current and former employees. Adobe calls this organizational... Read more âș
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Part of the fun of business reporting is reading between the lines. When you follow a company or industry closely, eventually you pick up on very subtle shifts. And often those lead to even bigger ones. Thatâs happening at TikTok right now. The company has swung hard from being a little languid and consumed by political pressures to overhauling the business. Today, Erin broke the news of a significant shake-up.... Read more âș
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YouTube is getting ready to release generative AI tools for creators. But unlike rivals such as Facebook-parent Meta Platforms, itâs less interested in chatbotsâthe conversational software that can take on a persona such as Tony Soprano. Instead, itâs focusing on tools that will power video editing or help creators generate ideas, said Tara Walpert Levy, YouTubeâs vice president of Americas, in a recent interview. âWhatâs most exciting about generative AI... Read more âș
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TikTok has hired two retail veterans who worked at Amazon and Meta Platforms to help oversee its ambitious push to build a giant U.S. ecommerce business. At the same time, TikTokâs U.S. ecommerce general manager, Sandie Hawkins, is leaving the company, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. The shakeup comes as TikTokâs CEO Shou Zi Chew is trying to build a big TikTok ecommerce business, including... Read more âș
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One of the biggest complaints that ChatGPT users have is the lack of up-to-date information from the web in its models and chatbot. OpenAIâs announcement on Monday night of GPTBot, a web crawler that scrapes sites for data that may be used to improve its future models, could be the companyâs answer.It might not be a coincidence that the announcement follows recent news that the number of people using ChatGPT... Read more âș
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A nearly decadelong truce between Microsoft and Google is overâand the rivalry could reshape tech regulation for decades to come. The tech behemoths are at an escalating stand-off in Washington, with both companies deploying large lobbying teams to chip away at each otherâs competitive advantages in software licensing, search and artificial intelligence. Microsoft is helping regulators argue that Googleâs dominance in search is illegal, while Google is trying to stop... Read more âș
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Talk about a missed opportunity. Paramount Global said today it would sell its Simon & Schuster book business, which publishes author Stephen King, among others, to private equity firm KKR for $1.6 billion. Paramount CEO Bob Bakish should have thrown a few other assets into the deal, like some of its once-valuable cable channels (MTV, VH1, BET). Theyâre now more of a drag on the companyâs bottom line than anything... Read more âș
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Creators are lending their online influence to social causes. Alix Earle, a creator with 5.6 million followers on TikTok, is one of the most recent. This June she started a scholarship at the University of Miami for juniors and seniors pursuing a business degree at the University of Miamiâs Herbert Business School. The 22-year-old, who recently graduated from the university with that degree, told the Miami Herald she wanted to... Read more âș
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When Appleâs next iPhone goes on sale in September, its upgraded core processor will be more powerful than that of any rival smartphone. Thatâs possible because of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which makes all of Appleâs custom chips. TSMC is using a new process to make smaller, faster and more power-efficient chips, which it refers to as 3 nanometer, for Apple roughly a year before it makes them for anyone... Read more âș
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Like many others, I dream of having my own personal artificial intelligence-powered assistant to answer texts Iâve been avoiding or land that impossible-to-get reservation at a restaurant blowing up on TikTok. So like seemingly everyone else in AI-land, I was excited when a young startup, HyperWrite, publicly launched an AI-powered assistant last week, promising to help with tasks that take multiple steps, such as booking airline flights or purchasing clothes... Read more âș
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In 2019, Sean Parkâa co-founder of Anthemis Groupâwas on the road 200 nights a year, traveling to Boston, London and other tech hot spots to meet with startups. Even after Covid-19 curtailed travel, Park, who is also the firmâs chief investment officer, was swamped with Zoom meetings with entrepreneurs he was thinking about backing. How times have changed. Now Park estimates heâs on the road at most 20 nights a... Read more âș
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In 2000, Toyota introduced the hybrid Prius in the U.S. Sales started slowlyâAmericans bought just 5,600 of the novel cars that first year and 15,600 the next, a tiny fraction of the Japanese companyâs sales. Yet-Ming Chiang, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who at the time was just about to set up his own battery startup, remembers fellow professors sneering at the Prius as unnecessary. What was... Read more âș
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Ten years ago, almost to the day, my husband Sam took a video of me curled up in bed, convinced I had food poisoning. I was so nauseous, I felt like I couldnât move. It turned out it was just nerves. I had just told my parents I was going to leave a plum reporting job at The Wall Street Journal to start something new. It was the moment my... Read more âș
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Culturally, itâs been a very Barbie-Taylor-Tom (Cruise) summer. A season of mega-popular, mega-lucrative, four-quadrant entertainments that have returned us, however briefly, to the pre-internet days of the monoculture. So imagine my surprise when the online discourse shifted abruptly this week to the very niche topic of LK-99, the supposedly miraculous superconductive material created by physicists in South Korea. Julia writes more about the phenomenon in our... Read more âș
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M&A has finally picked upâonly itâs not the kind of dealmaking investors want. The Information was the first to report on two deals this weekâthe fire sale of storage company Clutter and the impending sale of troubled internet underwear company Parade. You know who gets screwed the most on these kinds of deals? Itâs not the founders. Itâs not the preferred shareholders, who get their money back first. Itâs the... Read more âș
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I was recently talking to a potential leadership coach and asked a fewâI guess pointedâquestions. âThatâs why you are a journalist,â she remarked. âYou are so skeptical.â I suppose I am. But this week, after taping More or Less, I momentarily wanted to join the optimistic camp. Sometimes you just have to root for the cool tech stuff, right? Hope you enjoy this episode which hits everything from Barbie and... Read more âș
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