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4/19/2023
7 : 4

NPR and PBS give up on Twitter, FTX recovers far more cash and crypto, and super sweet custom sneaks

View in browser Top News Whoa. Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has recovered over $7.3 billion in cash and liquid crypto assets, an increase of more than $800 million since January, the company's
4/19/2023
6 : 25

A break in the Bob Lee case, stock sales on Twitter, and Reid Hoffman's role in a lawsuit against Donald Trump

View in browser Top News The fatal stabbing of tech executive Bob Lee in the early hours of the night last week was not a random act of violence in San Francisco but instead tied to an altercation with
4/19/2023
6 : 4

Elon Musk has created a new AI company called X.AI Corp after cofounding, then leaving, then flaming OpenAI

View in browser Happy Friday.:) We're on semi-vacation this week and are especially short on time today so publishing an ever-so-slightly condensed issue. If you are Orthodox (special shoutout to
4/19/2023
5 : 34

How Spotify uses AI to find your songs, stingy Series C rounds, and the Murdochs' succession drama: “It’s sad”

View in browser Go Cavs! (Hot damn.) Top News Meta is expected to conduct another mass round of layoffs tomorrow, according to Vox. Netflix is preparing to ship its last red DVD envelope, 25 years
4/19/2023
5 : 25

Tesla's deadly disclosure, Apple's inroads in India, and the myth of the broke millennial

View in browser Top News According to The Information, OpenAI has told employees it has finalized a tender offer in which investors buy employee profit units—essentially, rights to future OpenAI
4/11/2023
6 : 44

“We sometimes find $50m of assets lying around that we lost track of," and other horrifying communications inside FTX

View in browser Top News Parag Agrawal, Twitter's former CEO; Ned Segal, its onetime chief financial officer; and Vijaya Gadde, who was its head of legal and policy, are suing Twitter for the $1
4/8/2023
6 : 34

For two Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies, it's suddenly all-out war

View in browser To those of you celebrating it this weekend, happy Easter. 🐰🥚🖌 Top News A California Tesla owner today sued the electric carmaker in a prospective class action lawsuit accusing it of
4/7/2023
8 : 4

What it feels like to work in AI right now

View in browser Top News As it deals with pressure from chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google plans to add conversational AI features to its flagship search engine, CEO Sundar Pichai tells the WSJ.
4/6/2023
7 : 14

It's more than a feeling; according to new data, venture firms are raising -- and deploying -- a lot less

View in browser Happy Passover to those who observe it. (Also, have you seen that moon tonight?! Our entire neighborhood is illuminated.) Top News ChatGPT is being threatened with its first defamation
4/5/2023
5 : 54

A founder arrest, a look at BloombergGPT, and if you want an A in this class, you'd better go viral

View in browser Top News So sad: Bob Lee, the 43-year-old former CTO of Square (now Block), who joined the cryptocurrency outfit MobileCoin as chief product officer in late 2021, was stabbed to death
4/4/2023
7 : 4

Elon Musk thinks digital banking could transform Twitter into a company worth more than $250 billion

View in browser Top News The Federal Trade Commission today rejected Illumina's $7 billion deal for cancer-test developer Grail, a fresh sign the commission wants to take a more aggressive stance
4/1/2023
6 : 54

Andreessen Horowitz is "all in" on Saudi Arabia, it made clear today

View in browser Top News Andreessen Horowitz is "all in" on Saudi Arabia, it suggested at a Miami event today. According to Bloomberg, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz appeared on stage with
3/31/2023
6 : 4

What we still don't know about how AI is trained

View in browser Top News OpenAI is facing a new complaint to the Federal Trade Commission that urges the agency to investigate the group and suspend its commercial deployment of large language models.
3/30/2023
5 : 54

A "forced marriage" inside Alphabet, the rise of "AI whisperers," and a VC who no one knows raises questions

View in browser Facts. If you're wondering why we've stopped responding to email this week, this is partly why. We'll be back with more vim and vigor tomorrow hopefully.:) 🤒 Top News
3/29/2023
6 : 14

1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking "all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months"

View in browser Top News More than 1100 signatories (as of this writing), including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology, have signed an open letter that
3/28/2023
7 : 34

SVB finds a buyer from across the country, U.S regulators go after Binance, and Eric Schmidt hosts "Succession"

View in browser Top News The US took a step toward cracking down on crypto exchange Binance Holdings and its CEO, Changpeng ("CZ") Zhao. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission alleged in
3/25/2023
4 : 34

First Republic's succession drama, Twitter Blue's woes, and a harder look at why Elon Musk and OpenAI split up

View in browser Top News China's Foreign Ministry today criticized the US for targeting TikTok and said Beijing would never require companies to illegally gather data and intelligence from overseas
3/24/2023
5 : 24

TikTok's dire day, OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet, and Hindenburg Research goes full bore after Block

View in browser Top News Shares of the fintech company Block tumbled today after the activist short seller Hindenburg Research released a report accusing the company of inflating its user numbers and
3/23/2023
5 : 44

"I would not choose this week to go to [Capitol] Hill unless you have a death wish.”

View in browser Top News The Federal Reserve pressed ahead with a quarter-point rate rise today despite the recent turmoil in the banking sector, but it signaled that it may soon pause its monetary
3/22/2023
8 : 14

"Graceful Way Out": Investors Propose Struggling Founders Close Shop and Return What's Left of Funding

View in browser Top News The Federal Reserve is expected to raise rates again tomorrow, though some economists say it could hit pause this month or in coming months. Here's what that could mean for