Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: How a Chinese megabillionaire became the Jensen Huang of batteries. • Style and Shopping: Tech invaded Cannes. Then we went shopping.• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Long Buried,” “How to Not Die in Prison” and “Dust Bunny”On Tuesday, a closely watched Congressional primary in New York City ended in defeat for Alex Bores, a former Palantir engineer turned state legislator who... Read more ›
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European Union regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying security software that competes with Microsoft’s, according to a document the EU sent to at least one rival in January. It’s the latest sign of growing scrutiny from policymakers, especially in the EU, of Microsoft’s fast-growing cloud business and its practice of bundling products. Regulators from the European Commission, the agency that enforces the EU’s antitrust laws,... Read more ›
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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. “AI should empower human creativity, not replace it,” he wrote. “Everyone should have access to AI tools that will push the boundaries of creative expression.” 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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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, Glossier’s CEO, Kyle Leahy, is trying to reinvent the one-time direct-to-consumer darling. “We’re not a tech... Read more ›
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Today just may have been the most important day for the future of tech. We’re 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 hearing—see here, here and here—the court correctly perceived the complexities of the... Read more ›
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An up-and-coming video-generation startup—and its new investors—may 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 OpenAI’s 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 ›
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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 Carolina–based First Citizens Bank. “They were all pretty good, pitching different... Read more ›
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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 rivals—much greater than the 300 or so miles that most motorists consider sufficient—Ijaz 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 ›
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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 company’s generative artificial intelligence tool. While you couldn’t 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 ›
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Anyone uninitiated in the glories and ignominies of Silicon Valley will delight in “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” Kara Swisher’s memoir-cum-history of Silicon Valley’s 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 Swisher’s life. For that same reason, it will delight anyone who has only recently discovered Swisher’s... Read more ›
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During the past week, J.T. Rogers, Tony-winning playwright, was intently trying to straighten out the remaining kinks in “Corruption,” his new production about the News Corp phone-hacking scandal of a decade ago, through daytime rehearsals and nightly preview performances at New York’s Lincoln Center. He still wanted to perfect how the characters’ tweets would appear onstage, and he also worked on a scene involving U.K. parliamentary mechanics with lead star... Read more ›
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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 Cuberg’s 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 ›
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Question: Is what’s 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 Thursday—attributed by pundits to investor enthusiasm about Nvidia’s 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 ›
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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 hasn’t 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 ›
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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 ›
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We’re deep into an era-defining boom in artificial intelligence, and with so much attention falling on the money and mania generated by this fast-evolving technology, it’s worth stepping back to ask: How do people really use it? And moreover, what are the people at the epicenter of this surge using AI to do? They use it for quite a lot of different things: as on-demand tutors for their children, home... Read more ›
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New CEOs love turning to familiar faces. It’s an age-old habit that is well represented across the nearly 60 Org Charts we’ve now published for Pro subscribers.Take ServiceNow, whose Org Chart we published Wednesday. Bill McDermott joined the IT giant as CEO in 2019 after a nearly 10-year stint as SAP’s chief executive. The following year, McDermott tapped Nick Tzitzon, an SAP executive vice president, to be ServiceNow’s chief strategy... Read more ›
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TikTok has hit a snag in its efforts to bring employees back to its New York City office: bed bugs. The discovery of a bed bug in the office last December, where hundreds of employees are based, has sparked a frenzy among workers fretting about the risks of transmitting bed bugs to roommates and pets, not to mention creators and other business partners. Employees this week asked for the office... Read more ›
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When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told investors on Wednesday that the chipmaker’s supply of specialized semiconductors vital for artificial intelligence was “improving,” he confirmed what many AI software developers already knew: The yearlong chip crunch is easing. More than half a dozen companies that use AI chips say it’s become easier to rent Nvidia’s most advanced chip, known as the H100, from cloud providers. That’s a change from last year,... Read more ›
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