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 average price to ride in Waymo’s robotaxis has dropped by 3.6% since March to $19.69 per ride, according to a new report by ride-hailing analytics firm Obi. Riding in a Waymo is now, on average, 12.7% more expensive than riding in an Uber and 27.4% more expensive than riding in a Lyft, down ... Read more ›
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As more tech executives weigh in on the weekend’s fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff this week that he believes “ICE is going too far,” according to a copy of the internal memo published by the New York Times’ DealBook. “There is a big ... Read more ›
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Pinterest said Tuesday it will lay off up to 15% of its employees, or around 700 staffers, as part of a restructuring to put more resources towards artificial intelligence-focused projects. The digital scrapbooking app has been fighting for user attention as AI chatbot apps like ChatGPT grab a ... Read more ›
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Private equity firms are struggling to sell the software companies they acquired in a buying frenzy in 2021 and 2022, even though they enjoyed a rebound in sales for such companies last year. The lack of deals could force more PE firms to sell their holdings at a lower price, or even at a discount to the original deal price. Sales did pick up last year but not enough to... Read more ›
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Moonshot AI, a Chinese large-language model developer, released its new foundation model called Kimi K2.5, saying it excels in coding as well as its understanding of visual data. K2.5, which can process both text and visual inputs, can generate code based on images and video, according to the ... Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Monday outlining how he sees the risks from powerful AI, such as the possibility of AI taking over the world or empowering an authoritarian regime. Regarding the essay, Amodei posted on X that “given the horror we’re seeing in Minnesota, its emphasis ... Read more ›
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Jury selection kicks off in Los Angeles tomorrow for a trial that both friends and foes of social media are saying could be existential for the social media industry—broadly defined to include Google’s YouTube as well as Meta Platforms and TikTok. The trial centers on a 19-year-old girl from Chico, Calif. who says her social media addiction led to depression and suicidal thoughts. It will be the first of thousands... Read more ›
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The founder and partners of OpenAI-backer Khosla Partners made opposing statements on X about the killing of a Minneapolis resident by a federal agent, in a rare instance of partners at the same VC firm clashing over politics in public. In a series of posts on X over the weekend, Khosla Ventures ... Read more ›
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Last week, the data center industry migrated temporarily to Hawaii for the Pacific Telecommunications Council conference. The event—like Davos except warmer—is typically where deal talks in the data center business begin and the priorities for the year are set. The sector’s power brokers are coming off a wild 12 months, bookended by the announcement—during last year’s conference—of the $500 billion Stargate data center project, and by the largest transaction in... Read more ›
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The circular funding party continues! This morning, Nvidia announced that it’s invested $2 billion into cloud provider CoreWeave, who said it’ll use that capital to build more than five gigawatts in AI data center capacity by 2030. CoreWeave also said that it’ll be an early adopter of Nvidia products like its AI chips and software. This is just another example of how Nvidia has used its deep coffers to support... Read more ›
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The European Union has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X over how the social media service has integrated xAI’s Grok AI chatbot. The investigation comes amid an outcry after users were able to prompt Grok to generate sexualized images of real people on X, including minors. X is ... Read more ›
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Nvidia invested another $2 billion into AI cloud startup CoreWeave as part of a broader deal in which CoreWeave committed to adopt “multiple generations” of Nvidia chips including the upcoming Rubin GPUs. News of the agreement sent CoreWeave stock 15% to $107 on Monday morning. Stock of ... Read more ›
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In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL, and well above what rivals such as Meta Platforms’ social media apps charge. But unlike Meta or Google, OpenAI won’t be providing detailed information about the query responses accompanying their ads or whether ads prompted ChatGPT users to take an action, like buying something or looking up a website. OpenAI... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Beijing on Sunday after spending two days in Shanghai over the weekend, according to various Chinese media reports. He is expected to attend the company’s Lunar New Year celebrations and meet Chinese clients,, according to China Daily. It’s unclear if Huang ... Read more ›
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Anthropic had been in discussions with Apple to supply models to rebuild its Siri AI assistant and was seeking several billion dollars annually over multiple years, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. But negotiations with the AI startup stalled over the summer over the terms of a potential ... Read more ›
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The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday said it planned to open a safety investigation into the activity of Waymo vehicles around school buses in Austin, Tex. The investigation follows a report by the Austin Independent School District in November that Waymo vehicles had illegally ... Read more ›
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Clear your schedule on Wednesday afternoon. Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Tesla are each reporting their December-quarter earnings after the market closes that day. Tesla is its own thing—we have a sense of what’s coming because it already released vehicle delivery numbers, signaling that revenue will drop. But Microsoft and Meta will be important to track, as their results should give us an update on AI development spending and—at least in... Read more ›
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China is letting AI and semiconductor startups go public at a furious pace. Since December, two developers of large language models and four designers of graphics processing units have listed on stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai, raising a total of over $4 billion. At least two more are in the pipeline. Kunlunxin, the chip arm of Baidu, is seeking to raise up to $2 billion in Hong Kong,... Read more ›
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OpenAI is getting ready to unveil a new offering aimed at large companies that aims to help business customers with large AI transformations, the process when companies overhaul their existing technology to incorporate AI into a variety of operations, from customer service to ... Read more ›
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Some of OpenAI’s most attention-grabbing efforts over the past year have involved products for consumers, from a social app to an AI-powered device it plans to announce later this year. Last week, though, the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, gathered Disney CEO Bob Iger and other corporate executives in San Francisco to deliver a message: OpenAI is serious about catering to business customers. Over a lavish multicourse dinner accompanied by fine... Read more ›
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