Articles from www.wsj.com

Articles from www.wsj.com

Sources: the DOJ is investigating Super Micro after a report by short-seller Hindenburg Research; an ex-employee accused the company of accounting violations (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-27

Sources: Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-26 Google AI

Sources: China-linked hackers, in a campaign called Salt Typhoon, have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-26 China

Access Now and 24+ others wrote to Pavel Durov in late 2021 asking Telegram to add transparent content rules, an appeals process, and more; Durov didn't respond (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-24

A profile of Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who now oversees a new team of thousands to develop AI products for an Alexa upgrade and other businesses (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-23 Amazon AI

Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which hires contractors to do data labeling tasks, as he looks to expand to higher-margin AI tools to sustain growth (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-23 AI

Sources: TSMC and Samsung execs have visited the UAE and are considering building chip factories funded by the UAE, with a central role for Abu Dhabi's Mubadala (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-23 Samsung

A profile of Santa Clara County Deputy DA Erin West, whose team clawed back ~$3M stolen from 26 US pig butchering victims, as she works to improve enforcement (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-21

Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Intel in recent days; Intel stock jumps 7%+ (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-21 Intel

Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most of its businesses by the end of this year, after a hacking group leaked more than 1TB of company data in summer (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-20 Slack

Amazon's new competition TV show, debuting October 30, will have entrepreneurs pitch judges, including Amazon execs; finalists' product will be sold on Amazon (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-19 Amazon Entrepreneur

Layoffs.fyi: tech companies have laid off ~137,000 people since January 2024; Indeed.com: software development job postings are down 30%+ since February 2020 (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-19 Layoffs

In an open letter coordinated by Meta, more than two dozen companies warned that the EU might reap fewer rewards of AI because of the bloc's tech regulations (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-19 AI

Lions Gate Entertainment, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in its movies and TV shows (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-18 AI

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100M to boost US cybersecurity: $50M to protect infrastructure and $50M to educate people about safeguards (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-18

A US appeals court signals skepticism with TikTok's arguments against the law that could force it to sever ties with China to keep operating in the US (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-17 China

Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI is most useful as a feature in devices and software we already use, rather than a standalone product (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-14 Google AI Apple

United Airlines plans to start testing Starlink internet service early next year, with the first passenger flights likely equipped with free Wi-Fi later in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-14 United Airlines

Utah-based Strider, which analyzes OSINT to help protect organizations against nation-state attacks, raised a $55M Series C, bringing its total funding to $110M (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-13

Analysis: VC investments in AI startups have reached $64.1B, ~30% of total VC dollars invested, so far in 2024 amid questions about whether it will pay off (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-12 Startup AI

In a memo to commemorate Alibaba's 25th anniversary, Jack Ma said the competition will make the company stronger, urging trust “in the power of market forces” (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-11 Jack Ma Alibaba

Oracle shares are up 34% since January, well outpacing the Nasdaq's 14% rise, as it becomes an attractive cloud-computing provider for AI developers (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-10 AI Oracle

How VC John Hering bet his career, time, and money on Elon Musk's businesses, including investing $4B+, more than half of his firm Vy Capital's reported assets (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-10 Elon Musk Asset Career

Parents concerned about students' screen time in school are opting their children out of classroom tech, after working to ban smartphones in the classroom (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-9 Ban

Sources: xAI discussed a deal that would give Tesla access to its AI models to help power Full Self-Driving in exchange for a share of Tesla's software revenue (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-8 AI Tesla

Trump says Elon Musk has agreed to lead a government efficiency commission, which would give Musk influence over federal agencies that regulate his companies (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-6 Trump Elon Musk

Applied Digital, which leases out data-center space and has started an AI cloud-computing service with Nvidia chips, raised $160M from Nvidia and others (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-5 AI Nvidia

Leaked Disney files include personal data of some staff and customers, and show that Disney+ had $2.4B+ revenue in March quarter, or 43% of Disney's DTC revenue (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-5

Sources: SpaceX has moved to evacuate employees from Brazil and warned others against traveling to the country, as Elon Musk battles Brazil's top court over X (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-5 Elon Musk Brazil SpaceX

A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs finds only about half ran smoothly; Microsoft says some titles with demanding graphics may not play (www.wsj.com)
2024-9-4 Microsoft

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