The U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing that TikTok collected user data on sensitive topics such as gun control, abortion and religion, and made such information accessible to China-based employees of the app’s parent company, ByteDance. The accusation was part of the Justice ... Read more ›
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Donald Trump on Saturday gave his full-throated support to the cryptocurrency industry, saying he would fire Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and create a “strategic national bitcoin stockpile” in a second presidential term. In a speech in Nashville at the Bitcoin ... Read more ›
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Vice President Kamala Harris has more support among The Information readers than President Joe Biden did before he dropped out of the presidential race, according to our latest survey. Asked who they would vote for if the election were held today, survey respondents favored Harris over former President Donald Trump 76% to 19%. In a similar survey a week earlier, readers favored Biden over Trump 59% to 27%. Nearly 1,900... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A lawyer who thinks social media and asbestos have a lot in common • The Top 5: New water toys that tech moguls love• Power and Influence: Kamala Harris’ Silicon Valley hive is fired up• Revisiting: The Parker Conrad–David Sacks feud • Plus: What eels say about planet Earth; a voyeur’s (nearly real-time) bacchanal; and a chance to stop and snap the... Read more ›
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Look past Crissy Field on the Presidio shoreline, and you might spot Ariel Poler, co-founder of Reveri Health, and some of his friends—10 to 20 small sails dotting the San Francisco Bay, riding a cargo ship’s wake. They’re not kitesurfing or windsurfing: They’re wing foiling. It’s a new water sport that’s made a real splash over the past couple of years, with wing foilers like Poler eagerly scrambling atop what... Read more ›
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This week on More or Less, we took a deep dive into Mark Zuckerberg's latest open source AI crusade and what's missing from the strategy. Plus, the Morins school the Lessins on Brat and all the latest in pop culture. Hope you enjoy! Apple Spotify YouTube Read more ›
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David Zaslav may be persona non grata the next time he shows up to an NBA game. Warner Bros. Discovery, which Zaslav runs, filed suit Friday against the league over its rejection of WBD’s offer to renew its longstanding deal to air NBA games. Whatever the merits of WBD’s argument, this doesn’t seem likely to end well for Zaslav.The fundamental issue he faces is that sports leagues have all the... Read more ›
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Logistics startup Stord is acquiring the e-commerce fulfillment services operations of publicly traded shipping services company Pitney Bowes, according to an internal memo sent to Pitney Bowes staff. It’s the second acquisition so far this year by the Kleiner Perkins– and Founders Fund–backed startup, which aims to help merchants better compete with Amazon on speedy shipping and has been trying to scale up faster by buying up established fulfillment operations. Read more ›
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Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against the NBA, arguing that the league violated its existing media rights contract with WBD by rejecting the company’s proposal to match the rights that were awarded to Amazon in the league’s new deals that begin in 2025. The NBA signed 11-year deals ... Read more ›
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In January, after members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had spent hours grilling tech CEOs about their platforms’ effects on children, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley pounced on Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Hawley, a Republican firebrand and a vocal tech critic, accused Zuckerberg of ignoring internal company data that suggested Meta’s Instagram made life worse for some teenage girls and exposed them to unwanted sexual advances and nudity. He then... Read more ›
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In the world of online lenders, Enova International stands out. It has been growing rapidly, lending more money last year than ever before even as rising interest rates caused competitors to cut back. Meanwhile, Enova executives have repeatedly argued the company’s stock was “undervalued,” and the company has spent heavily on buying back its stock. Enova’s growth continued into the second quarter, it reported on Tuesday, when new loans grew... Read more ›
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DoorDash is doubling down on its push to deliver more than just takeout noodles and late-night fast food. The company has hired an Amazon veteran and current Flexport executive, Parisa Sadrzadeh, as vice president of strategy and operations, a spokesperson confirmed. Her hire will help boost DoorDash’s efforts to deliver more types of goods through its app and to provide logistics and other services for retailers that sell on their... Read more ›
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Quick quiz: Which part of Google’s business has declined for eight straight quarters? If you guessed the Google network business—which sells advertising on other companies’ websites—you deserve an A in Google-nomics.In the second quarter, reported on Tuesday, Google reported that revenue from the network operation shrank 5% even as ad sales on its own properties (search and YouTube, primarily) rose 13.7%. This continues a steady trend: Over the past 18... Read more ›
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While we’re more than three months away from the election, there is no shortage of political squabbles, monologuing and grandstanding in every corner of Silicon Valley. I checked in with one of tech’s most outspoken Democrats, Reid Hoffman, who plans to co-host or host a fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris as soon as September, according to a person close to him. Hoffman declined to discuss that event but said... Read more ›
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Crypto exchange Coinbase is adding three members to its board, expanding its size to ten directors, as it brings in legal and political heavyweights. They are Chris Lehane, vice president of public works at OpenAI and operating partner at Haun Ventures who was a former Bill Clinton ... Read more ›
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Reddit has a new content and ad revenue-sharing program that it launched with sports leagues including the NFL, the NBA and NASCAR, as we reported earlier this week. The way it works is straightforward: Leagues post videos and other content on Reddit. Advertisers can buy ads against that content and the leagues and Reddit share the ad revenue. YouTube has long had a similar program, extending beyond sports leagues to... Read more ›
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he will ask the company’s board of directors to consider investing $5 billion in xAI, his artificial intelligence company. Musk posted a note on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter that he controls, after more than two-thirds of ... Read more ›
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OpenAI announced the prototype of its AI-powered search engine, dubbed “SearchGPT,” the company said in a blog post on Thursday. SearchGPT will provide answers in natural language in response to user queries, taking into account real-time information from the internet. Its responses will ... Read more ›
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Democrats with power and money in California are in a Kamala mood. Reid Hoffman, billionaire venture capitalist, has already shifted his attention as a top Joe Biden fundraiser to bringing in cash for the person who has replaced Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate: Vice President Kamala Harris, a Golden State native who was previously a California senator, state attorney general and San Francisco’s district attorney. “She combines California—understanding the... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley’s success has spawned some pernicious myths, most notably the glorification of the lone entrepreneur working in a garage, unfettered by government oversight. A closely related myth holds that regulation always jeopardizes innovation and technological progress, because government can’t wisely oversee technological change. It’s an attractive story, but it’s not true. From the earliest days of the semiconductor industry to the rise of the internet, public sector support for... Read more ›
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