Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: Midjourneyâs David Holz was AIâs creative rebel. Then Google pounced. ⹠Plus, Recommendationsâour weekly pop culture picks: âCatching the Codfatherâ  âAmerican Reichâ and âFor All MankindâThe only thing more fluid these days than which AI company has a better model is which ultraexclusive conference techies lust to be invited to.And JPMorgan Chaseâs Tech100, at the private Yellowstone Club in Montana, has been... Read more âș
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Venture capitalistsâ wallets are still open for artificial intelligence startups. But as the field has gotten more crowded, some startups that are raising new capital have leaned on metrics that donât exactly scream confidence in their business prospects. They include the number of AI PhDs on staff, how many Nvidia AI chips the company has, and a fuzzier measure of potential revenue.Some of this behavior reminds VCs of WeWork. The... Read more âș
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As Google grapples with the backlash over the historically inaccurate responses on its Gemini chatbot, Meta Platforms is dealing with a related issue. As part of its work on the forthcoming version of its large language model, Llama 3, Meta is trying to overcome a problem perceived in Llama 2: Its answers to anything at all contentious arenât helpful. Safeguards added to Llama 2, which Meta released last July and... Read more âș
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Maybe Apple should cancel multibillion-dollar projects more often! Shares of the iPhone maker, which have fallen since the start of the year, rose nearly 1% Tuesday after Bloomberg scooped the news that Apple had canned Project Titan, its decade-old autonomous car project. As a Morgan Stanley analyst said in a research note, the Bloomberg report, âif true, would be a positive development.â The analyst said he hadnât put any value... Read more âș
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Visa is stepping up its efforts to become more synonymous with the creator economy, from utilizing creators heavily in marketing to servicing their payments needs.âItâs been the gold rush for creators. Everyoneâs like, âHey, up in those hills are a bunch of creators who have a lot of reach and big audiences,ââ said Frank Cooper III, chief marketing officer at Visa. Creators are ânot only delivering the information, theyâre the... Read more âș
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European Union regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying security software that competes with Microsoftâs, according to a document the EU sent to at least one rival in January. Itâs the latest sign of growing scrutiny from policymakers, especially in the EU, of Microsoftâs fast-growing cloud business and its practice of bundling products. Regulators from the European Commission, the agency that enforces the EUâs antitrust laws,... Read more âș
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In a letter to YouTube creators earlier this month, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan shed light on the emerging challenges artificial intelligence poses to creators. âAI should empower human creativity, not replace it,â he wrote. âEveryone should have access to AI tools that will push the boundaries of creative expression.â Some creators are plainly worried about being replaced, even more so since OpenAI released Sora, its text-to-video tool. In an interview... Read more âș
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TikTok has shaken up its senior ranks, replacing several senior executives including the person running its trust & safety unit, which handles content moderation, and appointing a protege of CEO Shou Zi Chew to oversee that part of the business, according to people at the company and a memo distributed to staff. The shakeup comes weeks after Shou testified before Congress about how TikTok deals with content that could be... Read more âș
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First, some news. As generative AI has seeped into a number of industries, from law to healthcare, industry-specific large language model startups have proliferated, as we showed in this analysis. But I was still surprised to come across a startup working to apply AI in a traditionally unsexy field: construction.Parspec, a startup that uses AI to help distributors of lighting and electrical equipment, recently raised $11.5 million in seed funding... Read more âș
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Beauty company Glossier was an Instagram-fueled breakout star of the mid-2010s, winning over shoppers and investors alike with its promise to reinvent the stodgy, slow-moving beauty industry. But today, as a host of younger makeup brands made famous on TikTok nips at its heels and the trends it helped start now dominate the industry, Glossierâs CEO, Kyle Leahy, is trying to reinvent the one-time direct-to-consumer darling. âWeâre not a tech... Read more âș
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Today just may have been the most important day for the future of tech. Weâre talking about the Supreme Court arguments regarding Florida and Texas state laws that curb the freedom of tech companies such as Meta Platforms and Google to moderate content on their own platforms. Judging from the coverage by the news outlets present at the hearingâsee here, here and hereâthe court correctly perceived the complexities of the... Read more âș
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An up-and-coming video-generation startupâand its new investorsâmay get more than they bargained for when it comes to competition.AI-powered video startup Genmo is set to raise at least $30 million in funding from NEA, according to 3 people familiar with the situation. Word of the fundraising follows OpenAIâs preview of a new video generation model dubbed Sora, which sent AI enthusiasts on X into a tizzy and put a damper on... Read more âș
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When BedRock Systems co-founder Bob Tinker was recently searching for a venture loan to provide extra cash for his cybersecurity startup after it raised a Series A round funding round, he approached a gaggle of lenders specializing in that type of financing: Comerica, HSBC and Stifel as well as Silicon Valley Bank, now operating as a division of North Carolinaâbased First Citizens Bank. âThey were all pretty good, pitching different... Read more âș
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For four years, Mujeeb Ijaz has argued that the world needs a mainstream-priced electric vehicle with 600 miles of driving range. While that seemed excessive to rivalsâmuch greater than the 300 or so miles that most motorists consider sufficientâIjaz argued that few were considering how people really drive and how EVs really perform. Real people turn on the heat or air conditioning, Ijaz said. They punch the accelerator, slam on... Read more âș
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Welcome to your Weekend!The internet kicked up a fuss this week when it discovered a surprising thing about Google Gemini, the companyâs generative artificial intelligence tool. While you couldnât prompt it to, say, provide an image of a white pope, it did respond to a request asking for a Black pope. It also seemed to have a habit of placing nonwhite characters in settings that may present historical inaccuracies. In... Read more âș
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Anyone uninitiated in the glories and ignominies of Silicon Valley will delight in âBurn Book: A Tech Love Story,â Kara Swisherâs memoir-cum-history of Silicon Valleyâs internet era. It presents a thorough accounting of the people, companies and trends within technology from the 1990s onward, told through the bombastic, breezy prism of a narrative of Swisherâs life. For that same reason, it will delight anyone who has only recently discovered Swisherâs... Read more âș
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During the past week, J.T. Rogers, Tony-winning playwright, was intently trying to straighten out the remaining kinks in âCorruption,â his new production about the News Corp phone-hacking scandal of a decade ago, through daytime rehearsals and nightly preview performances at New Yorkâs Lincoln Center. He still wanted to perfect how the charactersâ tweets would appear onstage, and he also worked on a scene involving U.K. parliamentary mechanics with lead star... Read more âș
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Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt fired the senior leaders of its California-based lithium metal battery subsidiary, Cuberg, a Northvolt spokesperson confirmed on Friday. Those let go included Cubergâs founder and CEO, Richard Wang, who sold the startup to Northvolt in 2021 as a spinout from Stanford University. The others let go were chief operating officer Reza Nikfar and chief strategy officer Michael Bartholomeusz. The spokesperson declined to say why they were... Read more âș
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Question: Is whatâs good for Nvidia also good for America? That old line, originally referring to General Motors, came to mind after the stock market rallied to new records on Thursdayâattributed by pundits to investor enthusiasm about Nvidiaâs robust earnings. Stock of the AI chipmaker rocketed 17% on Thursday and Friday, lifting its market value briefly above $2 trillion on Friday and confirming its week-old status as the third most... Read more âș
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A number of U.S. lawmakers are pushing for a ban on imports of goods sold on Temu, the fast-growing shopping site known for selling bargain products shipped from China, saying it hasnât done enough to prevent its suppliers from using forced labor, two people with knowledge of the conversations said. In recent weeks, China critics including Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer have been asking agencies including the Department of Homeland Security to... Read more âș
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This week, the drama that has been brewing across the tech industry entered another gear. Top of mind: Reddit, OpenAI and investors that don't see eye to eye with CEOs. Hope you enjoy! Apple Spotify YouTube Read more âș
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