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. Rubin’s startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more ›
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For proponents of a return to working in the office, it’s two steps forward and one step back. The haze of Canadian smoke that hung over New York City and other parts of the East Coast this week gave people a reason to stay inside. Some schools shuttered their doors. People on the streets have been wearing masks. Yes, it has felt a bit like 2020. But no one should... Read more ›
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Well, that was fast! Twitch on Wednesday walked back its new branded content guidelines that restricted how streamers on the livestreaming platform are allowed to display paid promotion.The new rules, released just one day earlier, would have prevented or limited popular ad formats that streamers embed in their livestreams, including video, display and audio ads, with the exception of display ads that take up less than 3% of the screen.... Read more ›
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Will the startup Stability AI be the first spectacular flameout of the new AI boom? That’s what I was asking myself as I read Forbes’ investigation into the three-year-old generative AI company, which raised $100 million at a valuation that last fall reached $1 billion. Without going into exhaustive detail, the article alleged the startup’s founder and CEO, Emad Mostaque, made misleading statements about his own background and the company’s... Read more ›
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Will the startup Stability AI be the first spectacular flameout of the new AI boom? That’s what I was asking myself as I read Forbes’ investigation into the three-year-old generative AI company, which raised $100 million at a valuation that last fall reached $1 billion. Without going into exhaustive detail, the article alleged the startup’s founder and CEO, Emad Mostaque, made misleading statements about his own background and the company’s... Read more ›
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In recent weeks, open-source software funded by the United Arab Emirates burst on the artificial intelligence scene as one of the most promising challengers to proprietary large-language models developed by OpenAI and Google. The value of the UAE-backed software, known as Falcon, became clear when one of the key researchers behind it was hired by prominent AI startup Hugging Face, according to the researcher’s Twitter profile. Hugging Face, which operates... Read more ›
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Seat belts protect children in cars. Safety standards protect children from faulty or dangerous toys. All these are the result of regulatory mandates. And yet for far too long, social media companies have been allowed to develop addictive design features such as endless scroll, autoplay and push alerts that keep kids and teens hooked on their products. The longer vulnerable kids and teens are online, the more likely they are... Read more ›
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Citadel Securities, a prominent high-frequency trading firm, has told startup founders and investors it is looking to license software from artificial intelligence startups working on large-language models or to buy stakes in them, according to two people with knowledge of the conversations. The discussions highlight how interest in the latest wave of AI advances has spread to Wall Street, where firms have long battled to eke out gains by making... Read more ›
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To paraphrase Tolstoy, each unhappy TV channel is unhappy in its own way. And as illustrated by the leadup to the Wednesday exit of CNN’s CEO, Chris Licht, the cable news channel hasn’t been a happy place lately. That’s not likely to change now that Licht is gone. Beyond the gossipy drama behind his departure is the reality that CNN and its corporate parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, are both struggling... Read more ›
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Brian Brushwood’s online career illustrates how regularly social apps go up in smoke. The magician, who spent 15 years touring college campuses, started to post video clips of his life on the road online in 2006. He amassed more than one million followers on six-second video app Vine and one million followers on Google+. Then, both shut down. “I am king of the failed platforms,” Brushwood, 48, said in an... Read more ›
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BuzzFeed is exploring a potential sale of Complex Networks, a digital media firm it acquired when going public in late 2021 for nearly $300 million, according to people familiar with the matter. The move, which follows a decline in Complex’s revenues over the past couple of years, is a sign of the challenges facing BuzzFeed, once a high-flying star of the digital media sector that has struggled to grow in... Read more ›
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The Securities and Exchange Commission started the week off with a one-two punch, filing lawsuits against Binance on Monday and Coinbase on Tuesday. The sweeping lawsuits shared some key charges, including that each company operates an unregistered securities exchange, but the Binance lawsuit contained other damning allegations, including that Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao secretly control Binance.US—the U.S. exchange that publicly said it was independent and separate from Binance—and... Read more ›
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Sam Altman is warning me about an unsettling new technology with dangers of misuse.“It’s one of those things, the more you think about it, the more ways you can figure out a creep could abuse it,” he said. The industry must propose solutions, he argued, to “keep from getting legislated out of business.”Sound familiar? Read more ›
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Last summer, advertising representatives for a national pizza chain in the U.S. met with Amazon ad executives to negotiate a potential sponsorship deal for Amazon Prime Video’s broadcast of “Thursday Night Football.” Amazon executives asked the pizza chain for commitments of up to $12 million for the full season, double what the chain wanted to spend, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Amazon’s aggressive demand reflected its... Read more ›
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I remember my jaw dropping last year when The Information’s Juro Osawa reported that Sequoia China was in talks to raise more than $8 billion in new funding from U.S. investors and others.I was baffled. I just couldn’t imagine that Sequoia, which had picked a slew of winners in the U.S. and China ranging from Google to Meituan, was going to continue to draw such inflows from the U.S. Moreover,... Read more ›
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People strike over wages, working conditions...and now, apparently, the decision by Reddit to charge developers for access to their users’ jokes, memes and gaming tips. On Monday, the managers of hundreds of forums on Reddit, including some of its most popular ones such as r/gaming and r/music, will take these forums private to protest the company’s decision to charge app developers for access to its application program interface, which has... Read more ›
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Sequoia Capital on Tuesday told investors that by the first quarter of next year it would fully separate its U.S. and China venture capital operations, ending an 18-year run during which Sequoia Capital China became China’s most successful VC firm and drove outsize returns for Sequoia’s global investors. But the separation, anticipated for years and related to a growing geopolitical conflict between the U.S. and China, won’t stop Sequoia’s U.S.-based... Read more ›
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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Coinbase today, alleging a wide range of securities violations, kicks off what will likely be a yearslong legal battle that holds the key to Coinbase’s future. If the SEC wins, it will be all but impossible for the crypto giant to do business in the U.S. The SEC alleges that Coinbase has been operating an unregistered securities exchange, broker and clearinghouse, and combining... Read more ›
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From Silicon Valley to Washington, America has suddenly woken up to the risks of artificial intelligence. While Congress is just beginning conversations over how to regulate AI, the technology is advancing at an astonishing pace. Rather than indulge the fantasy that regulation will establish a “responsible” AI trajectory quickly and sustainably enough, the better and more reliable bet would be on competition—more specifically, competition between proprietary and open-source models. Read more ›
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Will Patterson was on a hot streak. As the co-founder and CEO of CareRev—a gig-work platform sometimes described as an “Uber for nurses”—he saw his company’s business surge during the pandemic as hospitals and clinics scrambled to find healthcare workers. In late 2020, he seized the moment by pitching investors over Zoom about his vision for marrying technology and healthcare, ultimately nabbing $50 million for a Series A round. He... Read more ›
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Judging a new Apple personal computing device is a fool’s errand. Just ask the countless critics of the first iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Despite that unparalleled track record, the company’s $3,500 Apple Vision Pro headset, unveiled on Monday, might encounter unique challenges even as it appears likely to become the most advanced virtual or augmented reality device on the market, leapfrogging Meta Platforms’ Quest headsets. Those challenges include a... Read more ›
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