Wall Street Journal:
A look at challenges to OpenAI becoming a for-profit company, including the complexity of splitting assets with the nonprofit arm, which will continue to exist — Converting from a nonprofit happens rarely, especially for organizations this wealthy. OpenAI has two years to do so.
Sources: Apple considers options for its headsets, including moving compute to iPhone, and is working on homeOS; new Masimo CEO could enable a deal with Apple (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple considers options for its headsets, including moving compute to iPhone, and is working on homeOS; new Masimo CEO could enable a deal with Apple — Meta’s latest AR glasses and cheaper mixed-reality headset add pressure on Apple to make its Vision push work.
NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained on his equity valuation work that is in the public domain, why AI will empower generalists, and more (Aswath Damodaran/Financial Times)
Aswath Damodaran / Financial Times:
NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained on his equity valuation work that is in the public domain, why AI will empower generalists, and more — Whether the risks to jobs is real or not, it behoves us all to act like it is given how consequential the costs could be
A look at OpenAI’s sprawling product portfolio as the startup matures into a real business and runs into the challenges of avoiding product creep (Matthew Lynley/Supervised)
Matthew Lynley / Supervised:
A look at OpenAI’s sprawling product portfolio as the startup matures into a real business and runs into the challenges of avoiding product creep — Plus: OpenAI’s portfolio is getting a little big. — ∙ Paid — This issue was finished on a mobile device so I apologize ahead of time for any typos and formatting errors.
Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has climbed almost sixfold to $200B+ in less than two years, buoyed by Meta’s record-high share price, which is up 60%+ YTD (Alex Perry/Bloomberg)
Alex Perry / Bloomberg:
Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has climbed almost sixfold to $200B+ in less than two years, buoyed by Meta’s record-high share price, which is up 60%+ YTD — – Meta CEO’s wealth has jumped sixfold in the past two years — Shares of Meta are trading near record high, up 60% this year
YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others in the US, after its music licensing agreement with performing rights organization SESAC expired (Jem Aswad/Variety)
Jem Aswad / Variety:
YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others in the US, after its music licensing agreement with performing rights organization SESAC expired — Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, R.E.M., Burna Boy, Rush and many others are currently unplayable on YouTube in the U.S. due …
Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI’s role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
Steven Levy / Wired:
Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI’s role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more — He’s deep in the defense-startup world as a Founders Fund partner and Anduril cofounder. His bunker, though, isn’t fully prepped for the end times.
Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue — Bumble and Match Group launch friendship and social products to help reverse post-pandemic slowdown
Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, its first entry into news-related programming (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, its first entry into news-related programming — Brian Williams may have found his next TV-news job….except it won’t be on traditional TV. — The veteran NBC News …
Court docs: Brazil’s Supreme Court say X still needs to pay $5M+ in pending fines, including a new one, before it will be allowed to resume service in Brazil (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)
Ricardo Brito / Reuters:
Court docs: Brazil’s Supreme Court say X still needs to pay $5M+ in pending fines, including a new one, before it will be allowed to resume service in Brazil — Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Friday that social platform X still needs to pay just over $5 million in pending fines …
