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 parched market for initial public offerings is likely to see a new entrant soon: a canned water company. Liquid Death, the irreverent water brand backed by venture capitalists, has hired Goldman Sachs to lead a potential IPO as soon as next spring, according to a person familiar with the matter. The decision follows one of the few IPO âbake-offsââthe process by which banks vie for IPO business by pitching... Read more âș
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Two summers ago, when a group of employees who previously worked at newsletter and media startup Morning Brew was fundraising for their newsletter startup Beehiiv, they had to contend with Meta Platformsâ newly launched Bulletin newsletter service, Twitterâs Revue, as well as startup Substack, which had recently been valued at $650 million. A lot has changed since then. Beehiiv was âplaying from behind,â said its CEO Tyler Denk in an... Read more âș
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Among the many unusual facts about OpenAI, the buzzy startup behind the hugely popular chatbot ChatGPT, the most extraordinary may be that Sam Altman, its CEO and co-founder, doesnât have any equity in it. He gave up the opportunity for a huge potential payday, he says, simply because he doesnât need the money. But Altman, 38, has a head-spinning number of investments in plenty of other companies he believes will... Read more âș
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Fierce competition between two of the hottest and most highly valued security startups has turned into a legal battle. Orca Security, which became known for spotting glaring security flaws in Microsoft software, on Wednesday sued its biggest competitor, Wiz, alleging it illegally copied patented software that monitors data stored on cloud servers. Orcaâs lawsuit, filed in federal court in Delaware, claims that Wiz âwas birthed from the very beginning as... Read more âș
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Itâs hard to talk about crypto these days without bringing up regulation in the U.S., specifically, the Securities and Exchange Commissionâs recent crackdown on top crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase.  Where does this leave NFTs? The SEC has gone after exchanges and other crypto companies by alleging that most crypto tokens they list are securities. And in February, a federal judge ruled that NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs must... Read more âș
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HSINCHU, TaiwanâFor decades, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the worldâs largest chip manufacturer, has been notorious for its extreme culture of secrecy and security, designed to both prevent cyberattacks and to ensure that employees and outsiders donât steal information about the companyâs sophisticated manufacturing techniques. But the company has started to relax some of its cumbersome workplace security restrictions as it struggles to attract talent and retain existing workers, current employe Read more âș
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Lina Khan needs to work on her aim. A judgeâs ruling today against the Federal Trade Commissionâs request to block Microsoftâs purchase of Activision was so definitive that it has to hurt the regulatorâs credibility, at least when it comes to tech cases. Coming immediately after a similar defeat involving Meta Platforms, the ruling suggests that by going after all tech, all the time, Khan is overreaching and risks achieving... Read more âș
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TikTokâs efforts to encourage its users to buy goods directly from the app, dubbed TikTok Shop, have gotten off to a slow start, as my colleagues reported earlier this year. But some influencers who have gained a following on the short-form video app have found some early success.Arlene Resendiz, a 29-year-old tutor who teaches math tips and counts 1.5 million followers under her main TikTok handle @silentmath, generates most of... Read more âș
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TikTokâs parent company, ByteDance, will offer U.S. employees a chance to sell their shares later this year, an indication that the firm isnât planning to go public anytime soon, a person familiar with the matter said. ByteDance officials told employees the share sale plan would occur in the fourth quarter. Itâs unclear whether the company would buy back the stock itself or line up new investors for the sale. Itâs... Read more âș
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When Abhi Yadav, co-founder of the Cambridge-based AI Innovators Community forum, was preparing a June summit for artificial intelligence startups, he reached out to Silicon Valley Bank to see if the lender would support the conference. âThey jumped on it,â Yadav said. The event wound up drawing 150 executives. SVBâs director of sales origination, Lisa Puleo, hosted a lightning pitch round for dozens of startups. âItâs not your imaginationâwe are... Read more âș
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Itâs July, which means on the East Coast itâs hot and humid and in San Francisco itâs winter. It also means weâre in a news desert, which partly explains the breathlessness (not to mention brainlessness) of much of the coverage of Threadsâ rapid rise to 100 million downloads. Leave aside the fact that itâs easier to get to 100 million downloads quickly when youâre mining an existing user base like... Read more âș
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Earlier this year, we started asking our readers to submit their questions about the creator economy. Today I answer questions on how startups can reach creators, the downside of repurposing posts and how much influencers really make. Read previous Mailbag editions here and here. You can submit more questions through this page on The Informationâs Forum, or feel free to email me directly kaya@theinformation.com.What marketing channels are startups using to... Read more âș
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Mark Zuckerberg and his longtime lieutenant, Andrew Bosworth, were at odds. It was mid-2019 and the two men held a series of discussions about Meta Platformsâ plans to build futuristic eyeglasses, part of Zuckerbergâs ambitions to control the hardware underpinnings of the next wave of technology. Bosworthâthe imposing 6-foot, 2-inch executive who led Metaâs hardware divisionâwanted to focus on building augmented reality glasses that would blend digital images with the... Read more âș
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As major Western automakers have struggled to make the transition to electric vehicles, they have stubbornly favored nickel-based batteries, even though they are costlier and subject to more supply chain snarls than the iron-based batteries used by market leaders Tesla and Chinaâs Byd. AÂ primary objection to iron-based batteries has been that they are not economically recyclable, diminishing their value.But over the last year or so, little noticed in the... Read more âș
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Twelve days before last Christmas, Marina Rosa, an artificial intelligence engineer in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, walked into a neighborhood tattoo parlor and laid her left arm on the table. Rosa then asked artist Nadine Guerra to give her a tattoo made up of various elements, including a 1950s-style female cyborg, an abstract squiggle, and four small items that look like stereo speakers. The art was then permanently inked onto Rosaâs... Read more âș
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Since we launched our Weekend section in November 2021, weâve been near-obsessive chroniclers of the generative AI boom. Our very first cover story, written by yours truly, was on Sam Altman and his optimistic vision for OpenAI. We followed that up with reports on how AI image generators would disrupt the design profession, the software that launched a thousand music deepfakes and the e-commerce companies searching... Read more âș
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I knew that this week's conversation on Threads was going to be fun! For better or worse, the Morins and the Lessins have a lot of social media DNA. Dave built a social network Path and helped create the Facebook platform. Sam spent years working on Facebook's social network, wrestling with the balance of public and private content. I am pretty sure we talked about social networking on our very... Read more âș
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Itâs a return to a simpler version of a popular social network. An app without fancy bells and whistles. A new iteration of a famously walled garden, one less commercialized, uncluttered (so far) by advertising, and with more palatable ownership. No, Iâm not talking about Instagramâs Threads. This week, as Meta Platforms introduced the world to its new Twitter knockoff, I was testing out a beta version of Retro, an... Read more âș
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One Saturday morning earlier this year, Noam Shazeer, CEO of Character.AI and one of the worldâs foremost machine-learning researchers, looked out his window to see a stranger perched on a folding chair outside his home in Palo Alto, Calif. The man had come to Shazeerâs quiet residential street to deliver a message that had been gaining steam among devoted users of Character.AI. He had scrawled their plea on a whiteboard... Read more âș
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Welcome back! If you squint, you can see the lineup for tech initial public offerings starting to shuffle together, after a year and a half of dawdling. Thereâs Arm, the SoftBank-backed chip designer that expects to list on the Nasdaq sometime after Labor Day. The fall could also bring debuts for Klaviyo, a marketing-tech firm backed by blue-chip venture capital firms, and Oddity, maker of TikTok-famous beauty brands. Maybe even... Read more âș
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