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. Rubinās startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more āŗ
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Apple may have just BlackBerried Meta Platformsā Quest devices. Appleās presentation of its mixed-reality headset, the Vision Pro, on Monday seems likely to spell the beginning of the end for Metaās ambitions in augmented reality and virtual reality. Remarkably, given the endless amounts of media coverage devoted to this device over the past couple of years, Appleās presentation felt surprisingly fresh. By showing how iOS apps, movies and photos would... Read more āŗ
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A new Hulu docuseries out on Monday called āThe Age of Influenceā examines the underbelly of the influencer world, from people whoāve used social media to perpetuate scams and fraud to child abuse happening behind the scenes of a popular kids YouTube channel.The show, produced by Part2 Pictures for ABC News Studios, looks at lesser known scandals involving social media that havenāt risen to the same level of attention as... Read more āŗ
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Sequoia Capitalābacked logistics startup Next Trucking, facing a slowdown in the trucking sector, is trying to sell itself, according to people familiar with the matter and a pitch deck reviewed by The Information. Next has enlisted the help of BG Strategic Advisors, a Florida-based boutique investment bank specializing in transportation and logistics mergers and acquisitions, according to the deck and a person familiar with the matter. The sale process for... Read more āŗ
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As OpenAI and Google battle for artificial intelligence supremacy in the West, a parallel contest is happening in China. Dozens of young Chinese startups as well as local tech giants Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu are developing machine-learning models to power chatbots similar to OpenAIās ChatGPT. Five Chinese startups, including MiniMax and LangBoat, stand out from the startup pack when it comes to funding theyāve raised and their foundersā experience in... Read more āŗ
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As it has for decades, the U.S. this year will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on its military. Political support for that spending remains strong, through peace and war, in part because the Pentagon is careful to disburse it across virtually every Congressional district and through 200,000 defense contractors. Critics claim the system encourages waste, but hawks say it helps guarantee a strong military, tying Pentagon budgets to the... Read more āŗ
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ThousandsĀ converged on San Francisco this week for a 200-event āSF Tech Weekā extravaganza that attempted to answer the question: Wait, isnāt every week tech week in San Francisco? The six-day roving party, which officially ends Sunday evening, was organized by Andreessen Horowitz, the famed and flashy venture capital firm known locally as a16z, which last year moved its official headquarters from the San Francisco Bay Area āto the cloud.ā... Read more āŗ
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It was the boom-iest of times, it was the doom-iest of times. At least thatās how it feels right now in Dickensian San Francisco, where AI companies are setting up shop on every avenue, while fentanyl dealers are hanging out in every alley. I jokeābut seriously, itās wild out here. No fewer than 17 of the 35 startups listed on The Informationās newĀ Generative AI Database... Read more āŗ
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Adam DāAngelo is basking in an āendless summerā of artificial intelligence. A few weeks before he and 350 industry peers released a bizarre, one-line statement warning that AI could herald a nuclear-level extinction event, the 38-year-old co-founder of Quora told me he actually sees more upside in AI than downside. āRight now thereās a little bit of a climate of, like, if you say something thatās too positive, people need... Read more āŗ
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Zume, which raised $375 million from SoftBank to automate pizza-making with robots before switching to developing sustainable packaging, has shut down. The company is insolvent and has retained restructuring firm Sherwood Partners to liquidate the assets for the benefit of the creditors, an alternative to bankruptcy, according to Martin Pichinson, Sherwood Partnersā cofounder. It ceased operations late last month, according to a person with direct knowledge. Zume, which raised a... Read more āŗ
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Until it reached its planned obsolescence last week, the mythical city of Zuzalu was an intellectual wonderland. Days at Zuzalu began shortly after dawn at the edge of the Adriatic Sea. In the pursuit of an infinite life, Zuzalans (as they self-identify) enjoyed submerging themselves in the frigid waters of Montenegro at 8 a.m.āand again at 1 p.m., depending on their level of dedicationābefore heading to a white geodesic dome... Read more āŗ
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Welcome back!To help readers track the frenzy around generative artificial intelligence, we launched The Information's Generative AI Database, listing 39 startups that make AI models or build services on top of them. Together, those companies have raised more than $15 billion from more than 50 investors.OpenAI, whose ChatGPT fueled the generative AI craze, has seen the bulk of that haul, raising $11 billion from investors including Microsoft and Khosla Ventures.... Read more āŗ
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Microsoft and other software companies that recently launched artificial intelligence features now face the hard part: getting customers to pay for the features, which are costly to operate. More than 600 of Microsoftās largest customers, including Bank of America, Walmart, Ford and Accenture, have been testing the AI features in its Microsoft Office 365 productivity apps, and at least 100 of the customers are paying a flat fee of $100,000... Read more āŗ
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You donāt need special glasses to see why Meta Platforms announced its latest mixed-reality headset, the Quest 3, on Thursday, just days before Apple is expected to unveil its own entry to the field. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has literally bet the company, and its name, on the metaverse, but the results so far have been disappointing.Ā Itās been almost a decade since Meta, nĆ©e Facebook, stepped into another reality by... Read more āŗ
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Grocery upstarts Instacart and Gopuff havenāt been able to deliver two things at once this year: growth and profits. Privately held Instacart disappointed some investors last week by reporting the number of grocery orders it facilitated declined by 2% in the first quarter from the same period last year, and was flat compared to last yearās fourth quarter, people familiar with the matter said. The companyās gross transaction volumeāthe amount... Read more āŗ
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After OpenAIās ChatGPT took the world by storm six months ago, social media companies have been scrambling to join the cluster of tech giants integrating and adapting OpenAI's large language models or rival technology to their platforms to create conversational chatbots.Snapchat was the first to enter the fray, launching its My AI chatbot, which is based on OpenAIās ChatGPT technology, in February for its paying Snapchat+ subscribers. The company then... Read more āŗ
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Meta Platforms has notified employees they will need to return to the office three days a week starting in September, according to a person familiar with the matter. The announcement, which has not been previously reported, marks the strictest policy changeĀ since it embraced remote work during the pandemic. While tech companies have met resistance from employees about such mandates in the past, leverage has swung to employers in the... Read more āŗ
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Welcome back,Amid all the hype for generative artificial intelligence, some venture capitalists have refused to join the fray. These young companies need so much capital and so much computing resources, the VC skeptics say, that theyāll have little chance of competing against Google, Amazon and other big tech companies that may soon have similar products.Our recent reporting this week was a reminder of how the internet giants are staking out... Read more āŗ
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OpenAIās ChatGPT launched six months ago, igniting a boom in generative artificial intelligence. Since then, all manner of startups have emerged, building technology to compete with ChatGPT and developing services that use generative AI. Despite an otherwise cool funding environment, investors are jockeying to join the action. The most recent sign: The Information reported Wednesday that Google led a roughly $100 million round in video-generation company Runway. Runway is one... Read more āŗ
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One of the biggest open-ended questions in the tech world is whether Twitter is truly dyingāand if it is, what will replace it. Last December, I argued that whatever came next might feel like Twitter in certain ways, but that ultimately there was probably no way to recapture the lightning in a bottle that was the infamous bird site. Six months later weāre a little closer to getting answers. The... Read more āŗ
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When Kevin Smyth learned in April that Goldman Sachs and Apple were offering a savings account with higher yields than anyone else, he jumped at the chance to shift money that was earning less at another online bank. But within a few weeks, when he had to withdraw a small portion of the funds to pay for a home renovation, everything went awry. A transaction that was supposed to take... Read more āŗ
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