Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• Shopping: Introducing the Summer Fun List—gear, gadgets and toys that all come highly recommended• AI: Where is China ahead of America? In cracking down on AI romances • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Last Twelve Weeks,” “The Nord Stream Conspiracy”and “The Dark Wizard”Just after 3 in the afternoon last Wednesday, I walked into Corgi Cafe, a coffee shop in San Francisco’s Financial District... Read more ›
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The rush to build and finance AI data centers has created a new kind of stress for CFOs at companies developing them. Some executives at these firms tell me they are struggling to keep their books accurate and move money from their lenders to their suppliers on time, raising the risk of costly delays or even huge overpayments.That risk is creating an opening Kos.AI, which is developing software that functions... Read more ›
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If you’ve been on X or Reddit in recent weeks, you’ve likely seen images created by an upcoming model from OpenAI floating around. Sharp-eyed people have pointed out that the new model is potentially being tested with some ChatGPT users and on leaderboards under code names. The images generated by that model, which some are calling “gpt-image-2,” are genuinely impressive and, in some cases, nearly indistinguishable from real images. (Bad... Read more ›
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Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation, as it looks to automate more of its own coding and ultimately its AI research. The push was prompted in part by Anthropic’s recent AI model releases, according to two of the people. Researchers at Google DeepMind view Anthropic’s coding tools as exceeding the... Read more ›
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Predictions site Polymarket is in discussions with investors about $400 million in funding at around a $15 billion valuation, which would add to $600 million that Intercontinental Exchange recently invested in the company, The Information reported. This valuation is substantially lower than ... Read more ›
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The predictions site Polymarket is talking to investors about raising $400 million in funding at a valuation of about $15 billion including the new money, according to two people familiar with the talks. The financing would add to the $600 million already invested in the funding round by Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, which the exchange announced last month without disclosing the valuation. It’s looking... Read more ›
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The National Security Agency is using Anthropic’s powerful new AI model, Mythos Preview, even though the agency’s parent, the Department of Defense, has sought to blacklist the AI startup from government contracts, Axios reported. Axios didn’t say how the NSA is using Mythos, though other ... Read more ›
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Vercel, a cloud development platform, on Sunday said a security breach allowed an attacker to gain unauthorized access to data for a “limited subset of customers.” In a post on X, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch said the attack began when a Vercel employee’s Google Workspace account was ... Read more ›
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If you’ve never visited Las Vegas, this week might be the time. Adobe and Google Cloud are both having big shows there this week, with Adobe kicking off its customer summit tomorrow and running through Wednesday. Google Cloud Next, conveniently, starts Wednesday and runs through Friday. Come for one, stay for both!The two companies might be in pretty different moods, however. Adobe is in the camp of enterprise software firms... Read more ›
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Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin completed the third mission for its New Glenn rocket, which mostly went as planned. On Sunday morning, the rocket’s booster successfully landed on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, the second time Blue Origin has accomplished that ... Read more ›
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Ask Washington’s most plugged-in politicians and lobbyists which Chinese chip company is the biggest threat to Nvidia and you’ll hear one name: Huawei Technologies. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly cited Huawei’s rising prominence in both private meetings with lawmakers and public forums. Huawei has become shorthand for China’s semiconductor ambitions. But that misses the bigger picture. China has more than 10 companies actively designing and shipping AI chips today,... Read more ›
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Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new chips aimed at running AI models more efficiently, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. One is a memory processing unit designed to work alongside Google’s tensor processing unit. The other is a new TPU built specifically for running AI models. The moves underscore surging demand for inference chips that run AI powering commercial products such... Read more ›
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Anthropic has received expressions of interest from investors who want to put money into the AI startup at an $800 billion valuation, but the company has no current plans to raise money. Those were among the details in a profile of Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao published by The ... Read more ›
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SemiAnalysis, the AI and semiconductor research firm, which also publishes a widely read industry newsletter, expects to do more than $100 million in sales this year, marked growth from a year earlier. SemiAnalysis did closer to $20 million last year, purveying in-depth data and research to ... Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday, in what both sides described as a “productive and constructive” discussion, according reports in Axios and The New York Times. The meeting signals a potential shift in the ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The rise of SemiAnalysis’ Dylan Patel, Silicon Valley’s favorite AI commentator • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Obit Project,” “Disneyland and the Rise of Automation” and “Unfamiliar”Recently, a close friend of mine introduced me to another of his friends, a tech investment banker, and now this banker and I have become friendly, too. I’ve enjoyed learning a bit about his... Read more ›
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These days, Anthropic is a crowded place: a startup with its own in-house philosopher, researchers devoted to preventing Armageddon and a CEO willing to go toe-to-toe with the Pentagon. And then there’s Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao, who has emerged as a key force within the company while staying far out of the spotlight. When Rao first arrived in 2024, he began pushing Anthropic, which had an agreement with Google... Read more ›
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Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital are in talks to co-lead a $2 billion investment in coding assistant startup Cursor at a $50 billion valuation before the investment, according to people familiar with the matter. The two firms first invested in the startup in 2024. Nvidia is also expected ... Read more ›
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Lawyers for Elon Musk said Friday that they may drop their fraud claims against OpenAI in his case charging the ChatGPT maker with violating its charitable mission and breaking promises to Musk. Dropping the claims would make Musk’s legal position more consistent with a court filing from earlier ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to lay off of around 8,000 employees next month, with further job cuts expected to occur in the second half of the year, Reuters reported. The initial wave of 8,000 layoffs is scheduled to begin May 20 and will account for about 10% of Meta’s worldwide headcount, Reuters ... Read more ›
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Kevin Weil, a member of OpenAI’s management team and a former executive at both Meta Platforms and Twitter, is leaving the AI firm, according to a post the executive made on X. Weil, who has been at OpenAI since mid-2024, was at one time Chief Product Officer but more recently led the company’s ... Read more ›
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