A look at Abu Dhabi-based AI startup G42, as sources say US intelligence officials fixated on CEO Xiao Peng ahead of its China divestment and Microsoft deal
Abu Dhabi-based G42 found it could no longer play for both teams. — G42, a startup in Abu Dhabi, has made itself … X: @eliotwb . LinkedIn: Mark Bergen X: Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : Great read on the r...
OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo
4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC : Sam Altman's back. ...
AlphaSense: almost 40% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI or related terms in their latest earnings call, but only 16% had AI in the related regulatory filing
S&P 500 groups from a burrito maker to a cruise-ship operator tout promise of emerging technology X: @eliotwb . Forums: Slashdot X: Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : LOL “Almost 40 per cent of companies in the...
Tracxn: Indian startups raised $5.46B in H1 2023, down from $17.1B in H1 2022 and $13.4B in H1 2021; Tiger Global made just one deal while SoftBank made none
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Twitter: @ulonnaya and @eliotwb Twitter: Tage / @ulonnaya : Several high-flying Indian startups, including Byju's, Swiggy and PharmEasy, have experienced a dramatic downwa...
How startup founders are reacting to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, as some worry about frozen funds, operating expenses, and paying employees full salaries
'The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a leading lender to startups and venture capitalists … Bloomberg : Khosla Ventures Tells Some Startups Firm Will Cover Payroll South China Morning Post : China joint ve...
Sources: Tiger Global reduced its latest fund's target size from $6B in October 2022 to $5B; Tiger expected to raise roughly $12.7B, its prior fund size in 2021
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @eliotwb , @annberry_nyc , and @wsjmarkets Tweets: Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : Tiger Global: become synonymous with the overheated startup market by increasing investing at...
A look at the rise and fall of Alameda Research, whose troubles began well before the crypto crash as the firm took big gambles, winning some and losing plenty
Some projects are just better when dead asap. 😥 Tom Gara / @tomgara : Also maybe this is common knowledge but I didn't realize that famous SBF origin story trade in Japan profited less than $30 millio...
SBF's “carelessness” fraud defense, after misrepresenting risk management and funneling customer money to Alameda, is a confession the SEC sees straight through
Oh Sam — I. — Here is how you run a futures exchange: — You offer some bets on some propositions, say, whether Bitcoin will go up or down. Tweets: @qasimrashid , @eliotwb , @bruno_j_navarro , @ma...
Disney, P&G, LVMH, and other large companies have hired chief metaverse officers to capitalize on Web3 trends, but it's unclear how long they will be needed
Advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA introduced the newest member of its C-suite at a technology conference in Paris this year. Tweets: @bizboyle , @bizboyle , @armstrongdrew , @eliotwb , @alexweprin ...
Internal Meta documents detail Instagram's struggle to compete with TikTok; users spend 17.6M hours per day watching Reels, far below TikTok's 197.8M hours
Reels faces formidable competition from the leading short-video platform; creators follow the views Tweets: @sal19 , @mrinaldesai , @stevekovach , @jeffhorwitz , @newley , @newley , @newley , @reaganb...