Alibaba Group unveiled its first artificial intelligence glasses, as Meta Platformsâ success with its Ray-Ban AI smart glasses prompts Chinese tech giants to follow suit. Alibaba announced the new product, the Quark AI glasses, at a tech conference in Shanghai over the weekend. The glasses, ... Read more âș
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Anthropic is in early talks with investors including MGX to raise around $3 billion at a $150 billion valuation, The Financial Times reported Friday. A fundraising at that price would be even steeper than the price The Information first reported investors had been considering. The talks follow ... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: Sports execsâ favorite pastime? Venture capitalâą The Top 5: The best new startup accelerators ⹠Plus, our Recommendations: âAutocracy in America,â âI Regret Almost Everythingâ and âStar Trek: Strange New Worldsâ LeBron James would like the internet to behave itself. Of course, it wonât. The NBA great has apparently become deeply annoyed by the proliferation of AI-generated videos depicting him as pregnantâI... Read more âș
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Need a mentor to jolt your thinkingâor need to lock yourself away from the world for 20 days? A whole new generation of startup accelerators has proliferated in recent years, each one promising to turbocharge a founderâs ambitions. Many of the best are from the most prominent names in Silicon Valley, including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. But thatâs not the case for all... Read more âș
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Oracle chair Larry Ellison's power in American business is about to expand. The Federal Communications Commissionâs approval on Thursday of Ellison-backed Skydanceâs takeover of film and TV icon Paramount Global cleared the last major hurdle standing in the way of the $8 billion deal. Itâs expected to close on Aug. 7, when Larry Ellisonâs son David will become CEO of a newly enlarged Paramount, owning CBS, Paramount studios, a bunch... Read more âș
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Ramp, a six-year-old corporate card and expense management startup, is in discussions with investors to raise $350 million at a valuation of about $21 billion with the investment, according to three people with direct knowledge of the fundraising, just a month after raising at a $16 billion valuation. Existing investor Iconiq is in talks to lead the round. Back-to-back financings of this scale have become more common for in-demand AI... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms has named Shengjia Zhao as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs, its new artificial intelligence organization, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads on Friday. âShengjia will set the research agenda and scientific direction for our new lab working directly ... Read more âș
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Incident management software maker PagerDuty is exploring a potential sale, according to a Reuters report on Friday. The companyâs shares soared more than 10% on the news. The firm is working with tech-focused investment bank Qatalyst Partners after receiving takeover interest from private ... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms in October will stop political and social issues-related advertising in the European Union, the company said in a blog post on Friday. The social media giant said the move was in response to forthcoming regulation in the bloc about the transparency of political advertising. The ... Read more âș
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Oura CEO Tom Hale said that the health-tracking company crossed more than $500 million in annual revenue last year, and grew at more than 120 percent. âI think the smart ring category is really on fire and Ouraâs leader in it,â he said in an exclusive interview with The Information ... Read more âș
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Tesla isnât making Optimus humanoid robots fast enough to meet CEO Elon Muskâs goal of 5,000 by the end of this year, The Information reported on Friday. Inside Tesla, one hurdle to scaling up production is the companyâs struggles with perfecting the Optimus hand. Still, Tesla this year has been ... Read more âș
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A couple weeks ago, LeBron James was in Las Vegas, seated courtside at the Thomas and Mack Center to watch his team, the Los Angeles Lakers, scrimmage against their crosstown rivals, the Clippers. The game was a highlight of the NBAâs annual off-season Summer League tournament, where rookies and rising starsâlike Jamesâ son, Bronnyâgain playing experience, while starters get a first look at the young talent theyâll soon face on... Read more âș
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GPT-5 is almost here, and weâre hearing good things. The early reaction from at least one person whoâs used the unreleased version was extremely positive.Thatâs good news for OpenAI. The ChatGPT creator has been under pressure to show major gains from its next big artificial intelligence model since we first broke the news last November that it had seen diminishing returns from using more computational resources and data during âpretraining.â... Read more âș
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Elon Musk says humanoid robots will be the future of Tesla. The company has a long way to go. Tesla is well behind the pace necessary to meet Muskâs publicly stated goal of producing at least 5,000 of its Optimus humanoid robots this year, according to two people with knowledge of the program. So far, the number of robots it has made is in the hundreds, one of the people... Read more âș
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Hereâs a question: If Google was started today, would it have a search bar on its website separate from its artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini? I asked Gemini that question earlier today, and the chatbot thought that was âextremely unlikelyâ and that a âunified interface would be the almost certain choice.â As Gemini said, âthe fundamental paradigm of how users interact with information has shifted. A company starting today would build... Read more âș
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On Intelâs second-quarter earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan made it clear that things are going to be different under his leadership than they have under his predecessor Pat Gelsinger. The biggest change is that Intel will only invest in building factories to manufacture chips for other ... Read more âș
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The Federal Communications Commission approved David Ellisonâs purchase, through his company Skydance, of Paramount Global, moving the $8 billion deal a step closer to completion. Ellison had to navigate political hurdles to get the approval of the FCC, including by commiting in writing to â ... Read more âș
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The NFL and ESPN are nearing a deal for the league to take a 10% stake in the Disney-owned sports media company, according to a report from CNBC. The terms could include ESPN taking ownership of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, two cable channels owned by the league. ESPN and the NFL have been ... Read more âș
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Benchmark general partner Victor Lazarte is leaving the blue-chip venture firm and is in the process of starting his own fund to back early-stage AI startups, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. He has already received capital commitments for the new fund and has an anchor ... Read more âș
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As TikTokâs future in the U.S. continues to be in limbo, the company is trying to quell a different regulatory threat north of the border.In November, the Canadian government told TikTok to wind down its operations in the country due to national security concerns, but curiously has allowed the app to remain available to the 14 million users in the country. The order means TikTok has to shut down its... Read more âș
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