Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: How a Chinese megabillionaire became the Jensen Huang of batteries. ⹠Style and Shopping: Tech invaded Cannes. Then we went shopping.âą Plus, Recommendationsâour weekly pop culture picks: âLong Buried,â âHow to Not Die in Prisonâ and âDust BunnyâOn Tuesday, a closely watched Congressional primary in New York City ended in defeat for Alex Bores, a former Palantir engineer turned state legislator who... Read more âș
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U.S. revenue at X, formerly known as Twitter, fell 53% in the second quarter from a year earlier, to $114 million, as CEO Linda Yaccarino tries to woo back advertisers to the site who fled after Elon Musk bought it in 2022, The New York Times reported. The company aims to bring in $190 million ... Read more âș
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I just spent a relaxing week at the beach that started in turmoil: Mine was one of more than 3,500 Delta flights canceled as a result of a CrowdStrike-sparked outage that also shut down hospital, bank and courthouse systems. While Deltaâs still on the hot seat with transportation regulators, Wall Street seems to have largely forgiven CrowdStrikeâthough the stockâs after-hours drop Monday show how skittish investors can be. Read more âș
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Appleâs artificial intelligence features will not be ready when the iPhone maker launches new phones and software in September, Bloomberg reported. Apple plans to release Apple Intelligence to consumers in October, according to the report, which said the additional time is intended to give the ... Read more âș
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Humane, the maker of a wearable device that aimed to replace smartphones, has told investors that former Cisco CEO John Chambers is joining its board of directors, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. The move came after the six-year-old San Francisco startup recently considered a sale after reviewers panned the device, and it has been in talks to raise debt from its current investors that would later... Read more âș
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Amazon-owned livestreaming site Twitch generated about $667 million in advertising revenue and $1.3 billion in commerce revenue in 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. That means the unit, which Amazon acquired for about $1 billion a decade ago, makes up less than 0.5% of ... Read more âș
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Machine learning conferences used to be about pushing boundaries and thinking outside the box. These days, theyâre focused on practicality and helping businesses cut the cost of running artificial intelligence.Take the International Conference on Machine Learning, or ICML, in Vienna last week, where the desire to lower AI costs seemed front of mind, some attendees told me.On the bright side, much of this research is cheaper to do than building... Read more âș
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Social media platforms such as Pinterest, TikTok and LinkedIn are trying a new tack to gain a bigger share of digital advertisingâgetting news outlets and other publishers to help them sell ads. Pinterest, for instance, is testing a new program through which publishers would be able to sell advertising on their Pinterest pages using the companyâs computerized ad-auction system, according to Jeremy Jankowski, head of media companies and publishing in... Read more âș
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Appleâs artificial intelligence features wonât be ready for this yearâs launch of iOS 18 and could be delayed by several weeks to October, Bloomberg reported. The delay underscores the short timeline Apple has had to work on its new AI features, which began in early 2023. Apple tends to make ... Read more âș
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Appleâs artificial intelligence features wonât be ready for this yearâs iPhone launch and could be delayed by several weeks to October, Bloomberg reported. The delay underscores the short timeline Apple has had to work on its new AI features, which began in early 2023. Apple tends to make major ... Read more âș
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup Zhipu AI launched a new AI video generator, as the countryâs tech giants and startups are in a race to release text-to-video AI models similar to OpenAIâs Sora. Zhipuâs text-to-video AI model, Ying, allows users to generate a six-second video, and it takes ... Read more âș
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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 appâs parent company, ByteDance. The accusation was part of the Justice ... Read more âș
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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 âstrategic national bitcoin stockpileâ in a second presidential term. In a speech in Nashville at the Bitcoin ... Read more âș
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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 âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âąÂ The Big Read: A lawyer who thinks social media and asbestos have a lot in common âąÂ The Top 5: New water toys that tech moguls loveâąÂ Power and Influence: Kamala Harrisâ Silicon Valley hive is fired upâąÂ Revisiting: The Parker ConradâDavid Sacks feud âąÂ Plus: What eels say about planet Earth; a voyeurâs (nearly real-time) bacchanal; and a chance to stop and snap the... Read more âș
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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 friendsâ10 to 20 small sails dotting the San Francisco Bay, riding a cargo shipâs wake. Theyâre not kitesurfing or windsurfing: Theyâre wing foiling. Itâs a new water sport thatâs made a real splash over the past couple of years, with wing foilers like Poler eagerly scrambling atop what... Read more âș
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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 âș
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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 WBDâs offer to renew its longstanding deal to air NBA games. Whatever the merits of WBDâs argument, this doesnât seem likely to end well for Zaslav.The fundamental issue he faces is that sports leagues have all the... Read more âș
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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. Itâs the second acquisition so far this year by the Kleiner Perkinsâ and Founders Fundâbacked 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 âș
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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 companyâs proposal to match the rights that were awarded to Amazon in the leagueâs new deals that begin in 2025. The NBA signed 11-year deals ... Read more âș
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In January, after members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had spent hours grilling tech CEOs about their platformsâ 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 Metaâs Instagram made life worse for some teenage girls and exposed them to unwanted sexual advances and nudity. He then... Read more âș
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