Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside ZaiNar, the secretive startup hoping to power the physical AI era • Policy: Meet the Trump official who wants to deliver a win to prediction markets • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Expanse: The Nannup Four,” “The Infinity Machine” and “Beef”Watching the Elon Musk versus OpenAI trial from inside the courtroom gave me a front-row seat to the AI boom’s... Read more ›
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You can call 2025 the year of the robot, at least for the major AI companies. While companies such as Anthropic, Meta and xAI filled out their AI hardware and software lineups, nearly everyone started to work on technology for humanoid robots. The shift to robots says as much about the current competitive landscape in AI as it does about the dream of humanoids running around every factory and household.... Read more ›
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The giant tech stocks have dominated the U.S. stock market for years, leading in profit growth and performance. Despite the power of these stocks, the U.S. market was left in the dust in 2025 by most of the world’s markets, according to Goldman Sachs. The S&P 500 is up just under 18% so far ... Read more ›
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The White House is pushing the federal government to address power demands of AI by taking control of part of the nation’s power grid, The Wall Street Journal reported. State utility regulators are pushing back, saying the effort violates federal law, which splits control of the power grid ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• A Tehran thriller, a chronicle of tech epochs—and 18 more great books to read over the holidays • The best video games of 2025• The best new tech and business podcasts of 2025 Back in 2024, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang made a really memorable boast: Even if his competitors started giving away their chips for free, they still couldn’t surpass what Nvidia had to offer. (You... Read more ›
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Quantity is so often the enemy of quality, a truth made plainly apparent across podcast feeds these days: Everyone and their cousin—or, rather, everyone and their Series B investor—is trying to do a lengthy chat show, seated behind high-end video cameras and the same set of Shure mics that Joe Rogan uses. In other words, our feeds are ever more cluttered with—sorry, to say it—slop. Yet as you can tell... Read more ›
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In the early 1980s, while driving his sports car, the game designer Eugene Jarvis was struck by another vehicle that ran a red light. His car did not survive the collision, but Jarvis, mercifully, did—though with a hand injury that temporarily made it impossible for him to press an arcade cabinet’s buttons. Rather than abandon his work, Jarvis adapted. He rigged up a second joystick to stand in for the... Read more ›
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JPMorgan in recent months has frozen accounts used by at least two fast-growing stablecoin startups operating in high-risk countries like Venezuela, The Information reported Friday. The bank’s moves highlight the risk that cryptocurrency transactions pose for banks, which are required to ... Read more ›
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“Suspense is an artform,” said Bruce Holsinger, the author of “Culpability,” a tense family drama about the ramifications of a horrific car accident. Oh, yes, I should add: The mini-van was driving itself. “I think a lot about suspense—at the level of the chapter, the sentence, the sequence of chapters,” said Holsinger, an author of four previous novels. “I like a sense of momentum, so that the characters are kind... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase in recent months has frozen accounts used by at least two fast-growing stablecoin startups, highlighting the risk that cryptocurrency transactions pose for banks, which are required to know the people they do business with and the source of their cash. The stablecoin startups did business in Venezuela and other places that posed legal risks to the bank due to sanctions or other restrictions. One of the stablecoin startups... Read more ›
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Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one of the best-funded startups trying to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in chips for powering AI applications, known as inference computing, according to a person involved in the deal. Nvidia is also hiring Groq’s founders and other leaders, according to the startup, which didn’t disclose the financial details. It isn’t clear whether the... Read more ›
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AI chip startup Groq said Wednesday that it entered an agreement with Nvidia where the chipmaker would license its technology. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed, but CNBC reported that Nvidia is paying $20 billion in cash for Groq’s assets. Groq said in a blog post that it will continue ... Read more ›
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In my hometown of Memphis, Tenn., Elon Musk’s xAI is a big topic of conversation for the second holiday season in a row thanks to the two gigantic data centers the company has opened here. The multibillion-dollar facilities have sparked a lot of local opposition because they’re being powered by gas generators that emit air pollution. In response, xAI has ramped up efforts to convince Memphians it’s a good neighbor.... Read more ›
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Waymo on Tuesday provided further details about its decision on Saturday to temporarily pause its robotaxi service in San Francisco amid a citywide power outage that caused its driverless cars to stall traffic. The company said it made the decision so its vehicles wouldn’t obstruct first ... Read more ›
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Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said it will start offering users up to 20% annualized yield on USD1, the stablecoin issued by President Donald Trump’s family crypto venture World Liberty Financial. The promotion on Binance, set to last for a month, is designed to help drive ... Read more ›
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Private equity firms sold $3.5 billion of general partner stakes through the end of October, on pace to set a record, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing data from PitchBook. The GP stakes give outside investors a slice of investment firms’ profits and management fees. More ... Read more ›
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Anjney Midha, a former Andreessen Horowitz general partner, is in discussions to secure more than $10 billion in capital for a coalition connected to his new venture, AMP, according to someone familiar with the deal. The coalition, which includes both strategic and financial partners, aims to ... Read more ›
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Nvidia has stopped testing an Intel process to manufacture its chips, Reuters reported, driving Intel’s shares down. Nvidia was recently testing an Intel production process known as 18A but decided to stop moving forward with the efforts, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the ... Read more ›
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The best prediction for 2025 would have been predicting the soaring growth of prediction markets. My prediction for 2026 is it will be a tough year for prediction markets.My colleagues Sara Germano and Yueqi Yang chronicled the stunning rise of these markets last weekend. They focused on the dramatic growth in sports betting and the tumult this has caused in college and professional sports. That’s one piece of the story—there... Read more ›
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Two Chinese AI startups are vying to be the first publicly traded AI model providers in the global stock market, ahead of expected future initial public offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The Chinese firms’ IPO filings offer a window into the hardship facing smaller AI firms that don’t have older cash-cow businesses.Shanghai-based MiniMax Group and Beijing-based Knowledge Atlas Technology, better known as Zhipu, both recently received regulatory approval to go... Read more ›
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OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to prioritize sponsored information in ChatGPT’s responses when users ask relevant queries, a person familiar with the discussions said. For instance, a Sephora-sponsored... Read more ›
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