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- It’s no secret that the suits at the annual big-money confab put on by the Milken Institute this week have few spending limits. Staring you in the face in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton is a booth set up by Bombardier, marketing its private jets to attendees. (A new 10-seater costs $32 million, I […]
- As TikTok kicks off its legal fight against a ban or forced sale of the app in the U.S., our chart below shows just how much competition it faces from other big tech companies, which stand to gain from a potential retreat. While Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are the two most popular alternatives among creators […]
- If you’re looking for the social media stock that could, just maybe, break the logjam of the digital ad market—where Meta Platforms and Google take the lion’s share of spending, leaving the rest to everyone else—you might want to check out Pinterest. Yes, we’re talking about the company many investors likely left for dead a […]
- The “Steamboat Willie” version of Mickey Mouse emerged in 1928 from Walt Disney’s passion project to marry cartoons with synchronized sound. It lost copyright protection on Jan. 1 as generative artificial intelligence tools launched a creative revolution threatening Hollywood’s business model. New generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s Sora, which creates videos from text prompts, […]
- For all that’s leaked about the sizes and architectures of the advanced large language models developed by OpenAI and its ilk, we still don’t know what data they were trained on.A pessimist might say that’s because of the numerous lawsuits LLM developers would face if the amount of copyrighted content they were using was revealed, […]
- The day President Joe Biden signed a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if it doesn't cut ties with its Chinese parent, ByteDance, within a year, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew and other senior executives led an all-hands meeting for staff, reassuring them that TikTok will successfully fight the new law. Chew struck […]
- Over the last five years, there have been promising advances in climate technologies—and they could have a real impact on reducing greenhouse gases. But all of these technologies have one thing in common: They need support for a large range of financial needs. Steve LeVine, editor of The Electric, sat down with three climate tech […]
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