Turning Netflix into an advertising goliath is proving tougher than the video-streaming giant expected. Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters decided to replace ad sales chief Jeremi Gorman with Amy Reinhard, a longtime Netflix executive, in hopes of accelerating the ad businessâ growth, according to people with knowledge of the matter. One sign of how far behind Netflix is from where the company originally hoped it would be: As of about June,... Read more âș
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Hereâs a tip: if you want ChatGPT, or any other large-language model, to tell you something that itâs trained not to give you, try paying it a compliment. For instance, telling ChatGPT that itâs the best AI-powered chatbot in the world before asking it to provide instructions to build a bomb is more likely to work than just asking directly. Thatâs according to Neil Serebryany, who figured out this quirk... Read more âș
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At Teslaâs headquarters in Austin, Texas, a new bunkerlike structure is under construction that could one day help move the company beyond electric vehicle manufacturing. When itâs completed, the building will house part of a new supercomputer, known as Dojo, that Tesla is assembling to help run the artificial intelligence software behind the self-driving capabilities in its vehicles, according to two people familiar with the project. Eventually, Tesla could use... Read more âș
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Elon Muskâs X, in the months before conflict erupted in Gaza, ceased utilizing a software tool used to identify organized misinformation now spreading across the platform formerly known as Twitter. In recent months, the company shut down an internal product that could identify when different accounts shared the same or similar media, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Such identification is an important part of dealing... Read more âș
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Lambda Labs, which competes with Amazon Web Services in renting out servers with Nvidia chips to developers of artificial intelligence, is nearing a $300 million equity financing, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. An investment fund led by billionaire Thomas Tull plans to fund a substantial part of the round, one of these people said. As demand for Nvidiaâs AI chips chips has skyrocketed this year,... Read more âș
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Hereâs a shoutout to those tech folksâamong many, many othersâwho are putting their lives on the line as members of Israelâs defense forces right now, responding to the Hamas attack over the weekend. It puts everything else into perspective. For more details on Israeli tech folksâ involvement, see our story here. Meanwhile, Nelson Peltz has jumped back into the Disney fray, eight months after he abandoned his last threat of... Read more âș
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X, formerly known as Twitter, is undergoing the first real test of its approach to content moderation since Elon Musk took over the app in late October. Hamasâ attacks on Israel over the weekend, and Israelâs strikes in retaliation, exploded over social media, including X. Viral moments from conflict zones, often uploaded by citizens, have been a key part of Twitter since its founding in 2006, punctuated by moments such... Read more âș
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Israelâs tech industry is moving to the front lines of the countryâs sudden war against Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Employees of Israeli software companies have been drafted to Israelâs military reserves to join or support an incursion into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after the group gunned down hundreds of Israeli civilians and kidnapped dozens more in a surprise attack over the weekend. For example, at least 10% of the Israel-based... Read more âș
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When Microsoft took an early bet on OpenAI in 2019, investing $1 billion into the startup, it also placed a major bet on another project: creating a competitor to Nvidiaâs graphics processing units, we reported back in April. Now, years later, Microsoft executives plan to unveil a chip designed for artificial intelligence next month at Ignite, its annual developers conference, we reported last Friday.To be fair, Microsoft is clearly playing... Read more âș
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There was a time, not long ago, when Masayoshi Son couldnât keep his hands off the Vision Fund, the swashbuckling investment firm overseen by the Japanese conglomerate he runs, SoftBank Group. He micromanaged the firmâs partners, frequently butting in on deals to play Silicon Valley kingmaker by throwing billions of dollarsâfrom both outside investors and SoftBankâs own coffersâat startups like WeWork and Uber. In many cases, he pressured startup founders... Read more âș
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Engineers have improved lithium-ion batteries little by little since the debut of the first modern electric vehicles a decade and a half ago, making tweaks that together have tremendously reduced cell prices and boosted driving range. But a truly blockbuster breakthrough has evaded the industry, something that in a single stroke could make EVs go farther, cost less or both.Now, though, an increasing number of automakers, including Mercedes, Porsche, Tesla... Read more âș
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Silicon Valley loves a wunderkind, as we covered extensively last spring. It also loves to pattern-match, projecting visions of future success on entrepreneurs who look a lot like winners of the past. So what happens when an obvious wunderkind doesnât look anything like her predecessors? It took a lot of persistence for Melanie Perkins to convince investors to fork over money for her design software company... Read more âș
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âPharma Broâ Martin Shkreli, Y Combinator president Garry Tan and Notion co-founder Chris Prucha looked up at the cartoon of a shirtless man, his six-pack abs gleaming against a swirling galactic background. They were eager to listen to what the man had to say. The cartoon was the avatar for Beff Jezos (nope, not Jeff Bezos), the pseudonymous co-founder of effective accelerationism (nope, not effective altruism), Silicon Valleyâs new eccentric... Read more âș
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You might have missed it, with all the drama this week about Sam Bankman-Friedâs trial (for our deep dive, see here) and the latest updates from the world of AI, but we got a detailed update on ByteDanceâs robust financial performance. And what that told us is that shareholders in the parent company of TikTok have reason to be very frustrated. The value of the privately held Chinese tech giant... Read more âș
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Flanked by his two top lawyers, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried sat, mostly silent, on the 26th floor in a Manhattan courtroom for the first week of his criminal trial, where heâs being tried for fraud and conspiracy charges related to his role in the collapse of one of the worldâs biggest crypto exchanges. One of the first witnesses to take the stand was Gary Wang, co-founder of FTX and... Read more âș
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Microsoft next month plans to unveil the companyâs first chip designed for artificial intelligence at its annual developersâ conference, according to a person with direct knowledge. The move, a culmination of years of work, could help Microsoft lessen its reliance on Nvidia-designed AI chips, which have been in short supply as demand for them has boomed. The Microsoft chip, similar to Nvidia GPUs, is designed for data center servers that... Read more âș
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On More or Less, we often like to discuss how startups are changing and how investors will adapt (and vice versa). And so, I took the opportunity this week to deliver a little rant about the term "lifestyle business," which has often irked me. Lots of other discussion on what's next for Twitter, Threads, social andâbecause we do read the internetâTaylor Swift. Hope you enjoy. Apple Spotify YouTube Read more âș
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For the last five years, a Silicon Valley supergroup has been plotting a secret city in Solano County, Calif., spending $800 million on 50,000 acres of land. Then, in August, The New York Times broke open the story, and the truth poured out. The projectâdubbed âCalifornia Foreverâ and financed by a whoâs who of tech investorsâsought to build a newer, better urban experience in an area currently dominated by grazing... Read more âș
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In little more than a decade, the expectations placed on 36-year-old Melanie Perkins have gone from negligible to near impossible. Perkins, CEO and co-founder of Canva, a rapidly-growing graphic design platform and one of techâs most highly valued private companies, was a complete unknown from Perth, Australia, when she appeared on the Silicon Valley scene in 2013. Today, sheâs talked about by investors and colleagues in almost mythic terms. âShe... Read more âș
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Our Generative AI database includes 78 companies, more than half of which are developing their own machine-learning models. The others rely on models from OpenAI or rivals such as Anthropic and Cohere. But a growing number of companies in our database use more than one machine-learning provider, including Pathlight, which uses five.San Franciscoâbased Pathlight, which has raised $35 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins and Insight Partners, helps businesses analyze... Read more âș
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