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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I’ve got some bad news. It’s about Bob.” A friend was on the phone, calling Jake Shields with news about their buddy Bob Lee. “Oh, shit. Is he OK?” said Shields, a mixed martial arts fighter who lives near Las Vegas. “No.” The news of Lee’s killing on April 4 spread quickly among the close-knit but far-flung group that called the technology executive a friend. They were shocked. They never... Read more ›
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.While I hope everyone carves out some time this weekend to read Abe’s fascinating cover story about the tech hero-turned-villain-turned-hero-again Parker Conrad, there’s one person I know will not be reading it: Conrad himself.As the Rippling CEO admitted to Abe during a lengthy interview in Vermont earlier this month, he hasn’t read any press about himself since 2016. That’s when things hit rock bottom at his... Read more ›
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The first time Joslyn Lacy tried neurofeedback, she was skeptical. A finance administrator for a large cloud software company, Lacy dealt in numbers, not woo-woo. But she’d long struggled with chronic pain and anxiety related to underlying medical conditions. “As an African American, I wasn’t feeling heard by my doctors,” she said. They often just resorted to prescribing her pain medications, but she wanted “more than a Band-Aid.” So when... Read more ›
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Last December, Bilawal Sidhu was living a double life. By day, he was a full-time product manager at Google, working on projects like building virtual reality tools. By night, he was experimenting with a barrage of new artificial intelligence models like Midjourney and Dall-E. He started posting TikToks and YouTube videos showing off the psychedelic, UFO-filled AI images he had created and predicting where AI was headed. Sidhu rode the... Read more ›
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When Jamie Snedden moved to San Francisco from London in late 2021, it occurred to him that he didn’t actually know how to make friends. In college, an abundance of common areas and extracurricular clubs had made it easy to meet new people. Now, working remotely for a startup, he barely left the house. He considered roving between coffee shops, but identifying potential pals there seemed as random as shooting... Read more ›
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Parker Conrad was touring me around a personal sliver of heaven when I asked him to relive his personal hell. As we traipsed through his sister Louisa’s hilly 100-acre farm at the eastern base of Vermont’s Green Mountains—Louisa’s chickens strutting in the spring sun, her goats poking their heads amiably from their pens—Conrad’s mind cast back to a much darker place. “I thought maybe the world was ending,” he recalled.... Read more ›
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Welcome back!Every time The Information publishes another great org chart, I scan the names listed in the C-suite and see what trends pop out at me. And lately there’s one that’s pretty clear: There are a relatively large number of female general counsels and chief legal officers in the world of tech. I counted 10 females and 22 males among those in our current org chart stable. In tech, women... Read more ›
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The slowdown in enterprise software spending is forcing some software firms to go to extraordinary lengths to win business. Palo Alto Networks, for instance, is giving away cloud security service—literally. The company, which is the biggest stand-alone security software firm measured by market capitalization, is offering its cloud security software for free for up to two years to customers who ditch a competing service to sign up with it, according... Read more ›
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Andy Jassy needs a raise. Amazon's annual disclosure of its top executives' compensation, released today, portrays a CEO who is woefully underpaid given the immensity of the job he has. The company's stock-heavy executive compensation packages are laudable in how they align the interests of executives and shareholders. But shareholders also need top executives to stick around. And seriously, Jassy has good reason to be hunting for a better-paying job.In... Read more ›
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Our latest update to the Creator Economy Database shows signs of life in the industry despite doom-and-gloom fundraising totals. We tallied 15 U.S.-based creator startups that raised money in the first quarter of this year, all of which were early-stage funding rounds. We also added more than two dozen startups as well as tracked the closure or sale of three others. Here’s more of what happened:• Startups that provide services... Read more ›
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Two Twitter alternatives, two Web3-based startups and a social music platform for communal DJing: These are some of the 15 creator startups that bucked a severe downturn in funding to raise money in the first quarter, according to The Information’s newly updated Creator Economy Database. The database now tracks more than 350 private companies both in the U.S. and overseas in the sector, offering everything from software that hosts virtual-shopping... Read more ›
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Tech firms may be known for their big personalities and frequent turnover. But that’s not DoorDash. The restaurant-meal delivery service’s CEO and co-founder, Tony Xu, keeps a low profile and his management team has been remarkably stable. Seven of his nine direct reports have been with him for an average tenure of five years, half as long as DoorDash has existed. So far, the stability has paid off: the company... Read more ›
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We probably all know by now that artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, is venture capital’s current obsession. What’s interesting, though, is that firms like Spark Capital and Greylock Partners, respectable outfits but generally not considered in the same league as Sequoia Capital or Benchmark, have led the industry’s latest push into the sector. Successful bets could propel them to VC’s upper echelons. Not that Sequoia has been absent from the... Read more ›
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Last month, the U.S. gave TikTok a choice—either its owner, Chinese artificial intelligence company ByteDance, has to sell it, or it will face a federal ban. As we wait to see how ByteDance responds, more than 25 U.S. states have gone ahead and banned the app from state employees’ devices. And in the event that ByteDance won’t sell, Congress is currently workshopping a legislative fix. That is no simple proposition—there... Read more ›
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To gain an edge in the suddenly hot artificial intelligence category, one venture firm is hiring from the startup—OpenAI—that set off the generative AI craze in the first place. Spark Capital has hired Fraser Kelton, the former head of product at OpenAI, as a venture partner, Kelton and Nabeel Hyatt, a Spark general partner, told The Information. Kelton, who started last week after leaving OpenAI in January, will lead investments... Read more ›
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Lithium prices are down almost 70% since a peak in November, depressing shares of a number of mining companies, but many analysts and industry veterans say a shortfall of the metal will soon drive a new surge in prices. The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a plan to significantly accelerate the creation of a U.S. electric vehicle industry. But where lithium prices go from here—and whether there is enough of... Read more ›
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Better late than never. That could be the motto of Warner Bros. Discovery, which today put on a glitzy presentation to promote its overhauled streaming service, to be renamed Max (dropping HBO from the name) on May 23. The new service, combining shows from the company’s Discovery portfolio of reality shows with HBO Max’s lineup, is a worthy competitor to Netflix. It’s even got similar price points, Netflix-like program recommendations... Read more ›
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When I got verified on Instagram in October 2020, my friends were very impressed. It felt like a big flex. The coveted symbol gave my account an aura of importance. But the significance of that checkmark has been going through a major upheaval across social media. The genesis of the shift, of course, comes from Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter last fall. Soon after, he decided he would begin charging... Read more ›
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We’re excited to see everyone on April 20th at The Information's Creator Economy Summit. Our masterclass breakout sessions are an important part of the Summit. At this year’s event, we’ll have two sets of 45-minute breakout sessions. Here’s a preview of this year’s topics. Gen Z and the Creator Economy (1:30 p.m. PT) Gen Z is quickly becoming a key piece of the consumer puzzle, as it matures and its... Read more ›
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In a recent panel hosted by The Information in partnership with Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs, several experts took a look at where artificial intelligence is now and where it’s going. Amir Efrati, executive editor at the Information, acted as moderator. The panelists included AI experts from the worlds of customer support, technology, entertainment and investing: ● Isaiah Jenkins is senior manager of startup programming and employee engagement for Comcast NBCUniversal... Read more ›
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