The site, a throwback to an earlier era of social media, is poised to go public as soon as next week. It hasn’t been easy to reach this point.
In Silicon Valley, Venture Capital Meets a Generational Shift
Big-name investors such as Reid Hoffman and Michael Moritz are pulling back, creating room for a new generation of tech power brokers.
Why a Sale of TikTok Would Not Be Easy
As legislation moves ahead that could eventually mandate a sale by the Chinese parent company ByteDance, hurdles include finding buyers.
(BPRW) Unleash Curiosity and Creativity: 3D Girls, Inc. Announces Girls’ Link Up 2024 Summer Camp!
(Black PR Wire) Atlanta, GA – 3D Girls, Inc. is thrilled to announce the return of its Girls Link Up Summer Camp, offering an exciting four-week experience for rising 3rd-8th graders in Atlanta. This action-packed program, running June 3rd through Ju…
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.
Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have unearthed Linux malware that circulated in the wild for at least two years before being identified as a credential stealer that’s installed by the exploitation of recently patched vulnerabilities. The newly identified malware is a Linux variant of NerbianRAT, a remote access Trojan first described in 2022 by researchers...
Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images
Enlarge / A burglar with a flashlight and papers in a business office—exactly like scraping files from Discord. (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, Midjourney banned all employees from image synthesis rival Stability AI from its service indefinitely after it detected “botnet-like” activity suspected to be a Stability employee attempting to scrape prompt and image pairs...
OpenAI CEO Altman wasn’t fired because of scary new tech, just internal politics
Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6, 2023, in San Francisco. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday afternoon Pacific Time, OpenAI announced the appointment of three new members to the company’s board of directors and released the results of an independent review of the events surrounding CEO Sam...
Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home.
After making billions in tax-deductible donations to his philanthropy, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX gave away far less than required in some years — and what he did give often supported his own interests.
Sam Altman Asserts Control of OpenAI as He Rejoins Its Board
Mr. Altman, whose sudden firing and rehiring in the fall shocked Silicon Valley, was among several new additions to the board announced on Friday.