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X names Mahmoud Reza Banki as CFO; Banki, who Trump pardoned for making false statements in January 2021, was Tubi CFO and, a source says, joined X in November (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-14 Trump

Nvidia says Jetson Thor, a computer first unveiled in March 2024 and designed for testing humanoid robot software, will be available in the first half of 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-14 Robot Nvidia

Spotify plans to pay incentives to video creators who hit certain viewing thresholds and, in January, to let Premium subscribers view podcast videos without ads (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-14 Spotify

PitchBook: tech as a percentage of total private equity deal value was 28.3% in Q3, up from 18.7% in Q2, as VC firms and tech startups turn to PE for liquidity (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-14 Private Equity Startup Venture Capital Equity

Charles Sporck, an early champion of globalization who moved some of Fairchild's chip assembly operations from the US to Hong Kong in the 1960s, died at 96 (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-13 Hong Kong Globalization

CBRE: tech companies leased 9.9M square feet of US office space in Q3, up from ~8M in Q2 and the highest since Q4 2021, as demand grows from new AI companies (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-13 AI 4Q

Sources: Marc Lore's food delivery startup Wonder is in advanced talks to buy Grubhub from Just Eat Takeaway; Just Eat bought Grubhub in 2021 in a $7B+ deal (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-13 Startup

Sources: Meta plans to show Facebook and Instagram users in Europe an option to get “less personalized ads” in the coming days, a concession to EU regulators (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-12 Europe Facebook Instagram

A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé who heads the Chinese intelligence agency accused of likely steering the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks on the US (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-10 China Intelligence

Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-10 AI

Amazon is testing grocery formats that pull together fulfillment networks for Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh stores into a common delivery platform (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-9 Amazon

Sources: CFPB told staff not to use mobile voice calls or text messages due to risk from the China-linked telecom hack; many US officials curtailed phone use (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-8 China Mobile

How the Salt Typhoon hackers breached US telecommunication infrastructure to carry out targeted espionage against the US for at least eight months (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-6

Sources: Perplexity is finalizing a $500M funding round led by IVP that would value it at $9B, triple its reported valuation from just a few months ago (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-6

Sources: as US rules bite, US chip toolmakers tell suppliers that they need alternatives to Chinese products and that suppliers can't have Chinese investors (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-5 China

Experts say Tesla's imitation learning-based approach to building fully autonomous driving systems needs AI breakthroughs that may not be achieved for some time (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-3 AI Tesla

A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, a budget hawk who has been in the position for 11 years and is at the center of the company's AI spending spree (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-3 Microsoft AI Budget

A look at Denmark's sovereign AI supercomputer Gefion, which has 1,528 H100 GPUs and was built with $100M in funding from Novo Nordisk and a state-owned fund (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-2 AI

Polymarket user Fredi9999, a self-described Frenchman, says he bet $30M+ on Trump after analyzing polls; he can't exit his wagers without crashing the market (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-2 Trump

The EU Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against Temu over the alleged sales of non-compliant products and its platform design, like addictive features (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-1

Mark Zuckerberg says the company's AI-driven feed and video recommendations have led to an 8% increase in time spent on Facebook and a 6% increase on Instagram (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-31 Facebook AI Instagram Zuckerberg

Sources: xAI is in talks with investors to raise several billion dollars in a funding round that would value it around $40B; xAI was valued at $24B in May (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-30

Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on Agility's humanoid robot Digit, which was demoed on stage sorting laundry, automation's impact on jobs, and more (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-28 Robot

Q&A with Precision Neuroscience executives about the uses of brain-computer interfaces, human trials, brain implants becoming consumer devices, and more (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-28

How militaries around the world are using warfare simulation video games like Slitherine Software's Command: Professional Edition to run battle scenarios (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-27

Alibaba agrees to a $443.5M settlement in a US shareholder lawsuit alleging that Alibaba hurt investors by making misstatements about its exclusivity practices (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-27 Alibaba

Sources: federal prosecutors are investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules; US Treasury is considering sanctions (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-26

Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on AI slop, the company's partnerships with Google and OpenAI, content moderation during an election year, and more (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-25 Google AI Reddit

A look at the fight over valuable social media accounts when couples divorce; data: 44% of 27M paid US content creators say social media is their full-time job (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-25

Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping (www.wsj.com)
2024-10-25 Taiwan Elon Musk

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