Adobe in recent months held talks with Synthesia, a London-based maker of artificial intelligence software that generates video avatars of people, to buy the startup for about $3 billion, a premium from the startup’s $2.1 billion valuation in a January financing, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. Synthesia and Adobe walked away without reaching a deal after disagreeing about the price, this person and two others said.... Read more ›
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The Information’s editors shared this note with staff today. Hi - We’re delighted to announce Katie Roof is joining The Information to continue what she does best: break news about the most important tech deals. She will also share her years of experience by mentoring other reporters on the craft of deal-scooping. She’ll be our new deputy bureau chief, venture capital. Katie joins us after more than five years at... Read more ›
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Stablecoin issuer Circle, which went public in a blockbuster IPO in April, reported second-quarter revenue of $658 million, up from 53% a year ago, on growing circulation of its USDC tokens. Shares jumped 7% Tuesday morning to $173 per share, up from its IPO price of $31 as investors bet that ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk threatened to sue Apple for alleged antitrust violations, claiming that the iPhone maker is unfairly favoring OpenAI’s ChatGPT over xAI’s Grok in its app store. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which ... Read more ›
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We might be a long way away from sipping Pina Coladas on a beach while AI-powered humanoid robots handle all our work. But we’re already starting to see how AI is upending society. Some ChatGPT users are lamenting that they’ve lost their “only friend overnight” with the latest GPT-5 update, while other headlines suggest AI chatbots can even induce psychotic episodes. Partly in response to these trends, Anthropic has hired... Read more ›
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Just weeks after Nvidia reached a deal with President Trump allowing it to sell AI chips in China, the chipmaker has hit a new hurdle—Chinese authorities. China’s internet regulator in the past two weeks ordered local tech companies including ByteDance, Alibaba Group, and Tencent Holdings to suspend their purchases of Nvidia chips, citing data security concerns with the chips, according to three people briefed on the matter. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump praised Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan after their meeting on Monday, saying Tan’s “success and rise is an amazing story.” Trump’s positive description of his meeting with Tan came after the president last week demanded that Tan step down immediately. Trump’s call for Tan’s ... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing a copyright lawsuit brought by a group of authors against Anthropic on Monday denied the company’s request to delay the case while it appealed to a higher court. Anthropic is appealing the federal district court’s ruling that downloading and storing over 7 million “pirated” ... Read more ›
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For tech CEOs, having an investment banker playing the role of president has its advantages. President Donald Trump is displaying a willingness to consider all sorts of deals that might be verboten on national security grounds—as long as the government is getting paid. Not only is he allowing Nvidia to sell its China-specific H20 artificial intelligence chips to the country in exchange for a 15% cut of the resulting revenue,... Read more ›
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Ticketing platform StubHub is giving an initial public offering another go, and will have to explain lumpy business results to prospective investors. The company publicly filed first-quarter financial information Monday, revealing that revenue growth had slowed to 10% in the first quarter to ... Read more ›
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Bullish, a Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange and owner of news outlet CoinDesk, is seeking to raise as much as $990 million in its U.S. IPO, up from its target of $629 million last week. The Cayman Islands-based company is planning to offer 30 million shares at $32 to $33 per share, it said in ... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he would consider a deal with Nvidia to allow the chip company to sell a version of its advanced AI “Blackwell” chips to China. “It’s possible I’d make a deal” on a “somewhat enhanced — in a negative way — Blackwell,” he said at a press briefing with ... Read more ›
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A small Nasdaq-listed company said Monday it’s raising $1.5 billion through stock offerings to buy tokens of World Liberty Financial, the crypto project co-founded by Donald Trump’s sons last year. Alt5 Sigma, which has a biotech and blockchain business, is selling $1.5 billion in shares. World ... Read more ›
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The CEO of Microsoft’s GitHub subsidiary, Thomas Dohmke, will step down, he announced on Monday. Dohmke said in a blog post announcing his resignation that he plans to found a new startup after stepping down from the role at the end of 2025. The move comes several months after Microsoft ... Read more ›
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There’s no doubt: OpenAI’s GPT-5 is a good model.I’ve been talking to developers, who’ve had a chance to to use the AI now. As we predicted, the flagship AI improved in domains like coding—where it got better at both practical coding tasks and designing websites and apps—and creative writing. Developers told me that the new model is also better at ingesting and analyzing longer prompts, which makes it more useful... Read more ›
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In David Ellison’s first major move after taking control of Paramount, the company has announced a seven year, $7.7 billion media rights deal with UFC, the mixed-martial arts owned by Ari Emanuel-led TKO. Under the terms of the agreement, Paramount will exclusively distribute UFC’s events on its ... Read more ›
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Last year, when money was surging into artificial intelligence startups, even some venture capitalists involved in those deals worried that the high costs of AI and unreliable demand from businesses were setting up many startups for disappointment. Such skepticism, if not dead, is on its last legs. Monthly revenue that is doubling or quadrupling this year at startups such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Cursor-maker Anysphere have shown that businesses and... Read more ›
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Nvidia and AMD will give the U.S. government a 15% cut of the sales of their chips in China, in exchange for receiving export licenses for the Chinese market, The Financial Times reported. The unusual arrangement will affect China sales of Nvidia’s H20 and AMD’s MI308 chips, for which the U.S. ... Read more ›
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A week after President Donald Trump called on Intel’s CEO to resign, the two men are slated to meet in the White House on Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported. Last week, Trump posted a message on Truth Social demanding that Lip-Bu Tan, the Intel CEO, resign immediately. The message came ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Nvidia’s quiet rising stars? The CEO’s kids • The Top 5: The best at-home longevity tests• Plus, our Recommendations: “StanLand,” “King of Kings” and “Pee-wee as Himself” In Piedmont, Calif., a group of parents have been encouraging their friends to do the unthinkable: Take their kids to the park on Friday afternoon—and leave them there.“There’s this mindset that hypervigilance equals good parenting,... Read more ›
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Green juices and meditation apps are so 2015. In the quest to live better and healthier, anyone interested in wellness is likely into data-heavy optimization for greater insight on their body’s longevity. And such data is now increasingly easy to accumulate at home with just a few drops of blood or saliva in tests that purport to reveal how fast someone’s body is aging and how to slow that process... Read more ›
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