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. Rubinâs startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more âș
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Startups and other companies trying to capitalize on the artificial intelligence boom sparked by OpenAI are running into a problem: They canât find enough specialized computers to make their own AI software. A spike in demand for server chips that can train and run machine-learning software has caused a shortage, prompting major cloud-server providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and Oracle to limit their availability for customers, according to... Read more âș
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Sibling rivalry. Itâs a real thing, as any parent with more than one child knows, and it can either motivate a kid to work harder or alienate them. No, you havenât accidentally opened a newsletter about parenting. Sibling rivalry turns out to be a big problem in tech. It prevented the two AI labs within Googleâs parent Alphabet from working together, at least until very recently, which likely slowed Alphabetâs... Read more âș
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So many TikTok videos on my For You Page the last few weeks have featured a CapCut overlay of âThe Last of Usâ actor Pedro Pascal eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The template, made on the app owned by TikTokâs parent company, ByteDance, has been used more than 1.15 million times on TikTok and other apps, according to metrics from the CapCut app. The viral spread of the... Read more âș
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A few weeks ago, at the SXSW conference, I sat down with journalist and the host of âPivotâ and âOn with Kara Swisher,â Kara Swisher. With Silicon Valley Bank imploding around us, and technology companies on edge about all sorts of issues, it felt like a good time to check with Swisher on not just the state of tech, but also the state of news. Swisherâs career in journalism has... Read more âș
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After months of writing about layoffs and cram downs, I stumbled across the rare buzzy deal in Silicon Valley this week. More than half a dozen venture capital firms have been vying for a stake in a San Francisco startupâEvenUpâthat uses artificial intelligence to help personal injury lawyers compile claims using medical documents and case files. Bessemer Venture Partners won the deal and is leading the Series B round at... Read more âș
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Historically, India has been a software kingdom, a place where more advanced economies such as the U.S. outsource their development jobs. Lacking both the infrastructure and the expertise necessary to be competitive in manufacturing, India rarely produced any major consumer electronic products. That is poised to change. As major tech companiesâincluding Appleâbegin to shift more of their manufacturing away from China due to its aging population and uncertain geopolitical position,... Read more âș
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The last time Disney CEO Bob Iger and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts tangled, in a battle for control of 21st Century Foxâs entertainment business, Roberts came off second best. But as they prepare for their next contest, over ownership of streaming service Hulu, itâs the Comcast CEO who appears to have all the leverage. Next January, Comcast has the right to sell its 33% stake in Hulu to Disney, the... Read more âș
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Greg Brockman needed a win. In 2017, Brockmanâthen chief technology officer of OpenAI, a 50-person nonprofit at the timeâwas worried about getting left in the dust by bigger rivals like DeepMind, an AI lab owned by Googleâs parent company, Alphabet. He also was concerned that OpenAI might fall into the trap that had ensnared other artificial intelligence labs, where researchers fiddled around with projects that were never put into practice.... Read more âș
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In September 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, right, and his deputy, Drew Baglino, laid out a case for making battery electrodes in a completely dry process. Photo: Courtesy TeslaIn a fresh attempt to produce $25,000 electric vehicles, Tesla has hired manufacturing specialist Matt Tyler to jump-start its stalled efforts to cut the cost of making batteries. As Teslaâs âdirector of dry electrode development,â Tyler is taking on a key challenge... Read more âș
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Itâs become a major refrain among several U.S. tech leaders that the U.S. canât let China win in artificial intelligence. And so it is pretty interesting that leading venture firms funded by U.S. endowments and other institutional investors are putting money into the most promising young AI startups in China. In an important piece in The Information today, Juro reported from Hong Kong that Sequoiaâs China arm had quietly backed... Read more âș
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Until November, Priyanka Naikâs career as a food blogger took place around the sidelines of her main job at Twitter, where she most recently led the social networkâs North American and Latin American partnerships with large companies developing products with its API, or backend to its tweet data. But after she lost that position in layoffs that followed Elon Muskâs takeover, Naik decided to focus solely on building her own... Read more âș
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Stablecoins have been in the spotlight recently, thanks to regulatory crackdowns and chaos in the traditional financial sector, and investors have been pulling money out of some stablecoins at a staggering pace. To recap whatâs been going on: The New York State Department of Financial Services in February ordered Paxos to stop issuing the Binance-branded stablecoin BUSD, and Paxos cut ties with the crypto exchange. And Circleâs USDC briefly plunged... Read more âș
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Tiger Global Management, the most prolific investor in private tech companies during the recent boom, also invested in dozens of venture capital firms as it sought to forge closer ties to the young startups those funds backed. But in recent months, the New Yorkâbased investment firm has been looking to dump some of those VC fund stakes. The firm has been working with banks to sell some of its VC... Read more âș
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A boom in artificial intelligence startup funding sparked by OpenAI has spilled over to China, the worldâs second-biggest venture capital market. Now American institutional investors are indirectly financing a rash of Chinese AI startups aspiring to be Chinaâs answer to OpenAI. The American investors, including U.S. endowments, back key Chinese VC firms such as Sequoia Capital China, Matrix Partners China, Qiming Venture Partners and Hillhouse Capital Management that are striking... Read more âș
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Who says there are no laughs in tech business news? Our scoop today that Amazon, the premier online retail website, was marking products made by big companies and foreign sellers with a label meant to denote small U.S. businesses has a comedic side (make sure you check out the anecdote about Chomps jerky). But thereâs a serious angle here. Over a period of nearly 30 years, Amazon has won over... Read more âș
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A few weeks ago, I asked readers to submit their questions about the creator economy. Letâs dive into a few of them today, and please keep the questions coming!1. Is Instagram dead? What should they do to stay relevant? âAnonymous subscriberAny eulogies for Instagram are premature. While the app has had plenty of stumbles in its fight against TikTok, recently it seems to be finding a better groove. Itâs not... Read more âș
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Smash Capital, a late-stage investment firm co-founded by Disney veterans including Kevin Mayer, is seeking to raise as much as $500 million in fresh capital, according to two people familiar with the matter. The new fundraising would supplement half a billion dollars the fund previously raised. The fund, which is separate from Mayerâs Blackstone-backed venture, Candle Media, invests in consumer internet and technology startups. Its portfolio includes stakes in Epic... Read more âș
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After slouching toward a sluggish end of 2022, technology mergers and acquisitions look to be showing new signs of life. That activity coincides with a continued rise in shareholder activism as value-oriented investors take advantage of the paradigm shift in valuations to demand higher profits and cash flow margins. Amid tightened market conditions and the still-looming potential of an economic recession, balance sheet health is now under a microscope. With... Read more âș
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What do a bottle of shampoo made by Johnson & Johnson, a lamp from a Chinese seller and an ArcâTeryx jacket all have in common? Amazon has labeled them all as coming from American small businesses. Amazon began adding a âSmall Businessâ badge to items on its U.S. site about a year ago, pitching it as an effort to âhelp customers who want to support small businesses while also enjoying... Read more âș
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Thereâs no AI (and perhaps not too much human intelligence) involved in either World Wrestling Entertainment or Endeavorâs Ultimate Fighting Championship. But for sheer spectacle, todayâs proposed merger of the two companies beats anything going on right now in techâand weâre not talking just about whatâs on the screen. Vince McMahonâs maneuvers over the past few months to take back control of WWE from his daughter, despite misconduct allegations, could... Read more âș
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