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Articles from www.wsj.com

AI threatens to upend India's $250B outsourcing industry, as companies plan to automate BPO; HSBC says 80%+ of the S&P 500 outsource some operations to India (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-7 India AI HSBC

How Google's Character.AI deal, which sources say had a $2B licensing fee, and other Big Tech AI deals show startups are seeking bailouts after raising billions (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-6 Google Startup AI

Mainframes are finding a new life in the AI era, as some banks, insurance providers, and airlines look to use them to run AI locally rather than in the cloud (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-6 AI Insurance

Investor letter: Josh Kushner says Thrive Capital raised $1B early-stage and $4B late-stage funds, its largest-ever pair of funds, after backing OpenAI in 2023 (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-5

Despite a weak earnings report, corporations are still buying from Intel, which continues to dominate market share for non-AI computing workloads on servers (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-5 Intel AI

Sources: OpenAI has a watermarking tech to detect text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but the project launch has been mired in internal debates (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-5

A profile of Huawei, which has expanded into new businesses, built out its supply chain, and boosted profit, thanks to billions of dollars in Beijing support (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-3

An investigation finds 450+ illicit drug ads on Facebook and Instagram from March to June 2024, some showing bottles or bricks of cocaine; Meta removed the ads (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-31 Facebook Instagram

T-Mobile now has five partnerships with fiber internet providers that could serve millions of US users in the coming years, in a bid to catch AT&T and Verizon (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-31 Mobile AT&T

How Elon Musk and X's division of labor stymied some of Linda Yaccarino's plans, like a Visa deal; internal figures show X had 250.8M DAUs in Q2, up 1.56% YoY (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-31 Elon Musk

Amazon is expanding its one- to two-day delivery to rural areas in the US, using hyper-efficient warehouses, contracted drivers, and mom-and-pop shops (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-31 Amazon

Sources: Twitch remains unprofitable a decade after Amazon's acquisition; Docs show Twitch generated ~$667M in ad revenue and $1.3B in commerce revenue in 2023 (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-29 Amazon

A now freed Ethiopian man named Guracha Belachew Bersha details how he scammed hundreds online after he was enslaved in a pig butchering scam center in Myanmar (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-29

How podcasting is turning into an industry of megastars with huge deals and the biggest audiences; Edison: the top 25 podcasts reach ~50% of US weekly listeners (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-29

Sources: Talkie, which lets users chat with AI personas of celebrities and was one of most downloaded AI apps in the US in H1, is owned by China-based MiniMax (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-28 China AI

A profile of CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, who co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 after departing as McAfee's CTO following Intel's acquisition of McAfee for $7.68B (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-27 Intel

Filing: the US DOJ says TikTok collected data about its users' views on gun control, abortion, and religion, and censored content at ByteDance's direction (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-27 Gun Control

US unions are trying to organize staff at chip firms set to receive CHIPS Act grants; CWA is pushing to organize workers at Intel and other big chip companies (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-27 Intel

Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-26 Career

OpenAI says it partnered with publishers including WSJ and The Atlantic to build its search engine SearchGPT; publishers can manage how their content appears (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-26

Google Is Keeping Cookies in Chrome After All (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-24 Google Chrome

Scientists hunt for clues about China's supercomputing progress as Chinese scientists turn secretive and stop participating in the Top500, after US sanctions (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-23 China

Sources: Amazon lost $25B+ on its devices business between 2017 and 2021 as its plan to sell hardware at a lower price and make money elsewhere hasn't worked (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-23 Amazon

How EA uses AI to scan ~11K players' photos to create 3D avatars for its college football game; EA secured players' likeness rights for the first time in 2021 (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-22 AI

Microsoft says it cannot wall off its OS due to a 2009 deal with the EC to give security software makers the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-21 Microsoft

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-20

Sources: Disney is working on features to increase the hours viewers spend on streaming, including pop-up live channels and more-tailored recommendations (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-17

Sources: China's CAC requires AI companies to prepare between 20K and 70K questions designed to test whether their AI models produce safe answers before release (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-16 China AI

Sources: Elon Musk plans to commit ~$45M/month to America PAC, a new pro-Trump super PAC; other backers include Palantir's Joe Lonsdale and the Winklevoss twins (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-16 Trump U.S. Elon Musk

Sources: activist investor Starboard has built a 6.5%+ stake in Match Group and calls for the company to fix margins or pursue sale; MTCH jumps 8%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-16

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