Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The tech elite are using AI to supercharge their cancer battles • Artificial Intelligence: Should AI and Christianity mix? • Tech Culture: Amid AI backlash, billionaires demand new breed of bodyguard—plus, inside the star-studded Breakthrough Prize gala • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Family Lore,” “The Long Run” and “Scream 7”Let’s get straight to one of the biggest happenings at Google... Read more ›
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Palo Alto Networks on Tuesday announced plans to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi, a deal meant to strengthen Palo Alto’s cybersecurity tools amid new threats posed by the advancement of agentic AI. Palo Alto didn’t give a price but Calcalist reported the company is paying $400 million. ... Read more ›
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Thrive Capital said it has raised $10 billion in new funds, including $1 billion for early stage investments and $9 billion for growth stage. The New York-based firm is referring to these funds as “Thrive X,” double the $5 billion Thrive closed in August 2024, for its funds labeled “Thrive IX.” ... Read more ›
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U.S. AI firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic haven’t yet turned a profit but they’re trying to get on the path to doing so. In China, the big tech firms behind AI chatbots are fighting a different battle.Chinese tech firms are competing so intensely to draw people to use their AI chatbots that they’re spending this week’s Lunar New Year holidays giving away free stuff, or cash, as an incentive.... Read more ›
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Activist investor Starboard Value said it would nominate a new slate of directors to the board of Tripadvisor, arguing that the travel booking and review site hasn’t moved quickly enough to address the threat posed by AI chatbots and incorporate more generative AI into its site and app. ... Read more ›
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For the past three years, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready appeared to have secured a second chance for the scrapbooking app to prove itself to Wall Street. All that evaporated on Thursday night, when weaker fourth-quarter ad revenue prompted a sell-off that drove shares down 17% to their lowest level since April 2020. Even before the earnings report came out, Ready was racing to revive the company’s slowing ad business while... Read more ›
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We could see a brief shift away from obsessive AI talk this week. On Wednesday, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is due to testify in the Los Angeles trial hearing a lawsuit filed by a young California woman against big tech firms, namely Google and Meta. The woman claims her social media addiction led to depression and suicidal thoughts, as we described here. Last week, one of Zuckerberg’s lieutenants, Instagram... Read more ›
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SpaceX and its AI unit xAI are entering a Pentagon competition to develop autonomous drone technology, part of a Defense Department effort to advance voice-controlled unmanned systems. Bloomberg reported that SpaceX is one of a small number of companies picked to compete in a challenge launched ... Read more ›
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Apple has invited media to attend events in New York, London and Shanghai on March 5. The company didn’t provide any details in the invitations, describing the events simply as “experiences.” Apple’s decision to hold the events away from its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., suggests that they ... Read more ›
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Charlie Berens is a Wisconsin comedian beloved for wickedly funny, and until recently apolitical, satires of “Midwest Nice” culture. He’s now become Public Enemy No. 1 to data center developers and AI model makers. Berens is on a crusade to block data centers, making at times unfounded claims to his social media audience of over 10 million that tech companies have no intention of paying their fair share for power... Read more ›
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Four years ago, right around the time the concept of the metaverse became fashionable, I wrote a post calling it a “dystopian nightmare.” I argued that instead of diving into virtual worlds, we should all do more to connect with the real world around us. Time will tell if the metaverse will eventually come to fruition, but with global business and leisure travel, as well as live event attendance, blowing... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group on Monday unveiled Qwen3.5, the new generation of its large language models, adding to the recent flood of new AI model releases from Chinese companies ahead of the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday. Alibaba, a major global competitor in open-source AI models, said ... Read more ›
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ByteDance has released its new generation of large language models, Doubao Seed 2.0, as the Chinese tech giant tries to compete at the highest level with U.S. rivals in all types of AI models, from LLMs to video. ByteDance, which owns TikTok, said Seed 2.0’s strong understanding of visual data ... Read more ›
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Disney, Paramount Skydance and the largest union for U.S. entertainment professionals sent cease-and-desist letters to ByteDance after videos generated by the Chinese tech giant’s AI video model, Seedance 2.0, went viral on social media, the entertainment publication Variety reported. Since ... Read more ›
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OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire Peter Steinberger, the founder of the popular open-source personal agent project OpenClaw, and several team members. The team would likely work on personal agents at OpenAI. They are also discussing setting up a foundation for the existing OpenClaw project. ... Read more ›
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OpenAI is in advanced discussions to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and a handful of other people helping to maintain the red hot open-source software for powering personal agents, according to two people directly involved in the discussions. If those efforts are successful, Steinberger and his team will likely work on personal agents at OpenAI, as well as other products, the people said. As part of the discussions, the teams... Read more ›
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The U.S. Department of War is considering ending its partnership with Anthropic over a dispute about how the startup’s AI model, Claude, can be used by the U.S. military, according to an Axios report. Defense officials have been pushing leading AI firms to allow military use of their tools for “ ... Read more ›
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A potential record-setting SpaceX initial public offering has sent Wall Street into overdrive. Main Street wants a cut of the action. Bankers and institutional investors who talk to SpaceX executives have been debating how much the company should set aside for individual investors to buy at the IPO price—through brokerages including Robinhood, SoFi and Morgan Stanley’s E-Trade—as well as for wealthy clients who can buy directly through the banks. Read more ›
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The Department of Homeland Security has begun ramping up its use of administrative subpoenas to obtain identifying information from major tech companies on anonymous social-media accounts that criticize or track Immigration and Customs Enforcement or post about ICE agents’ locations. The New ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Meet the billionaire financier who has become AI’s debt whiz • Artificial Intelligence: CEOs find new management ethos from AI tools• Wearables: Techies find a surprise alternative use for Oura rings • The Top 5: An emergency guide for salvaging ski season• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Walkers: The Real Salt Path,” “Super Nintendo” and “A Knight of the Seven... Read more ›
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When the tech elite begin tossing around words like “paradise,” “superpower” and “nuclear bomb,” it’s a pretty good indication that Silicon Valley is going through another vibe shift. Just such a moment is happening now—with the industry’s machers obsessively pouring themselves into using the latest AI tools, including Claude Code, Google’s NotebookLM and Replit. That allows them to take an even greater hand in coding, design and other tasks their... Read more ›
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