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Companies, including Google and Cisco, have reinstated in-person interviews for some roles to combat AI-driven cheating, with some using deepfake detection tech (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-14 Google AI Cisco

A look at social media “clippers”, who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-14 Startup

US tech startups are reviving US hiring plans as President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill lets companies accelerate R&D tax deductions, starting in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-14 Trump Tax Startup

Sources: World Liberty Financial's partnership with Binance-run PancakeSwap is helping boost demand for USD1, generating profit for Trump, as CZ seeks a pardon (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-13 Trump

Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others gaining global traction spurs US policymakers and companies to respond (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-13 China Alibaba AI

Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-13 Chrome

How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-12 Real Estate Google Apple

How Jensen Huang successfully lobbied Trump to restart H20 sales to China; US officials had not vetted Trump's 20% pay-to-play proposal when Trump offered it (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-12 Trump China

AI-focused hedge funds raise billions, such as ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness that amassed $1.5B+ for a “brain trust on AI” (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-11 AI

Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet Trump on Monday to propose ways the US and Intel could work together, show his commitment to the US, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-11 Trump Intel

Silver Lake unveils a $400M project to secure powered land for data center developers; it has secured 3GW of power and is developing sites in Texas and Georgia (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-9 Silver Texas

Sources: Intel's board has stalled recent efforts by CEO Lip-Bu Tan to raise capital and acquire an AI company meant to help it compete against Nvidia and AMD (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-9 Intel AI Nvidia AMD

An analysis of 96K public ChatGPT transcripts finds 100+ lengthy chats, of which dozens exhibited delusional traits where ChatGPT reinforced users' fringe ideas (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-8

Sources: TBD Lab, a team under Meta Superintelligence Labs that houses many researchers poached from rival labs, is spearheading work on Llama's newest version (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-8

Sources: Intel's board has stalled recent efforts by CEO Lip-Bu Tan to raise new capital and acquire an AI company meant to help it compete against Nvidia (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-8 Intel AI Nvidia

SignalFire: as the AI talent race explodes, Anthropic is hiring engineers 2.68x faster than losing them, above OpenAI's 2.18x, Meta's 2.07x, and Google's 1.17x (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

The EU says companies exporting chips to the US will face a 15% tariff ceiling despite President Trump's new “approximately 100%” chip levy announcement (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Trump

Sony reports Q1 revenue up 2.2% YoY to $17.8B, net profit up 23% YoY to ~$1.8B, PS5 sales at 2.5M, up from 2.4M in Q1 2024, and expects a lower FY tariff impact (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Sony

Index Ventures is set to receive $11B+ in proceeds after Figma's IPO, Google's Wiz acquisition, and Meta's investment in Scale AI, which paid out shareholders (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Google IPO AI

Sources: the researcher who declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B+ package over six years is Thinking Machines co-founder and ex-Meta staffer Andrew Tulloch (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Zuckerberg

An interview with Strava CEO Michael Martin on Athlete Intelligence, the premium-only AI “coach” debuted in 2024 that has alienated experienced users, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Interview AI Intelligence

Young Americans are increasingly turning to BNPL loans from Affirm and others, as getting approved for credit cards becomes harder in today's economic climate (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 U.S. Climate Credit Card

Disney is grappling with using AI in its filmmaking process while protecting its characters against it, plus legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and union concerns (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI “core infrastructure business” is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Microsoft AI 4Q

Connecticut-based Amphenol plans to acquire North Carolina-based CommScope's broadband connectivity and cable unit for ~$10.5B, including debt, amid the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

A draft White House EO shows President Trump plans to step up pressure against big banks over alleged discrimination against crypto companies and conservatives (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Trump

ElevenLabs launches Eleven Music, letting individuals and businesses use its AI model to generate music cleared for commercial use via English-language prompts (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

How Palantir won over US lawmakers, leveraging geopolitical crises, technological trends, and DC connections, as CEO Alex Karp adopts a persona not unlike Trump (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Trump

The UK CMA clears Omnicom's $13B acquisition of rival Interpublic after launching an investigation into the deal on June 23; the FTC cleared the deal on June 25 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7

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