Poetiq, which leverages existing LLMs to create “expert agents” for specific tasks, and spent just $40K to achieve high ARC-AGI-2 scores, raised a $45.8M seed
Poetiq, which leverages existing LLMs to create “expert agents” for specific tasks, and spent just $40K to achieve high ARC-AGI-2 scores, raised a $45.8M seed
Poetiq, a less-than-one-year-old A.I. startup just crushed the ARC A.G.I. benchmark, beating Anthropic and Google with only six people and $40,000.
Amazon files an objection to Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, and says its $475M investment in the department store is now effectively “worthless”
Amazon files an objection to Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, and says its $475M investment in the department store is now effectively “worthless”
Amazon wants a federal judge to reject Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, writing in court papers the beleaguered department store …
Instagram denies a breach and says it fixed an issue that let an “external party” send password reset emails, after a report that 17.5M users' data was exposed
If you're one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue.
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed
The company claims there was no breach of its systems. … If you're one of the many, many people who received a password reset email …
Netflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases
Netflix has spent years saying Netflix was playing a different game from YouTube (professional content vs UG), but Netflix is about to argue that YouTube is a streaming behemoth and this deal but a we...
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs. $10.51B est., net income of $2.89B, and stops reporting subscriber numbers on a quarterly basis
April 17, 2025 Fellow shareholders, ● We are off to a good start in 2025. Annika Masrani / TipRanks Financial : Netflix Stock (NFLX) Pops as Earnings Beat but Tariffs Threaten Growth Dan Gallagher / W...
Ted Sarandos says Netflix talent uses “AI tools to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning” and AI can make movies “10% better”
Citing recent comments by James Cameron, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said he hopes AI can make films “10% better,” not just “50% cheaper.”
Sources: CaaStle, a clothing inventory monetization platform that raised $530M+, is almost broke and is accusing its founder and ex-CEO of financial misconduct
Back when everyone wanted to be a tech company, Caastle pitched itself … Julie Bort / TechCrunch : Fashion startup CaaStle appears to be in trouble Bluesky: Dan Primack / @danprimack : SCOOP: A fashio...
A look at Marc Andreessen and a16z's political efforts, including starting the Keep Startups in America PAC and giving millions to a pro-crypto dark money group
How did Marc Andreessen get so red-pilled? The Facebook board member was further “radicalized” by the FB-Russia scandal, a friend tells me. “He felt the company was trying to be liberal and constantly...
Sources: before his ousting, Sam Altman moved to push out board member Helen Toner over a paper he thought was critical of OpenAI, among other board tensions
Sam Altman attacked a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed about who should fill board vacancies open for months.
US v. SBF: in closing statements, the US relied heavily on evidence to argue SBF is guilty and he was “greedy” while SBF's defense managed to make things worse
Mistakes aren't illegal, but fraud is — and Bankman-Fried's lawyers never made his defense land.
Y Combinator hires Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for publicly criticizing Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics
Y Combinator hires Yelp policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for his public criticism of Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics
Best known for his relentless public criticism of Google as a monopoly, longtime Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe has a new gig: heading up policy efforts for Y Combinator.
The Writers Guild of America calls for a strike after negotiations with Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and others over pay and AI issues failed; around 12K may strike
The Writers Guild of America, the union that bargains on behalf of Hollywood's screenwriters, has called a strike after negotiations …
The fight for a Montana bill to ban TikTok, which passed in the Senate and will likely pass in the House, previews the legally perilous road for a federal push
A state rep asked if “this generation” was, through TikTok, choosing the CCP “as their new god” — AT&T talked its way out of having to block the app — TikTok quietly used campaign-style tactics to ral...
Former FTX Director of Engineering Nishad Singh pleads guilty to six US criminal charges, becoming the third FTX exec close to SBF to plead guilty and cooperate
Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges …
In its superseding indictment, the US charges that SBF and two unnamed FTX executives made 300+ “unlawful” political donations, including using customers' funds
The Bahamas won't like that. https://twitter.com/... Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel : NEW: SBF “selected CC-1” to give a straw donation of “at least $1M to a super PAC” that was “affiliated with pro-LGB...
Sources: the US DOJ's Public Integrity Section is probing possible campaign-finance violations by Sam Bankman-Fried or his associates, implying more indictments
The Department of Justice's elite Public Integrity Section is probing the Sam Bankman-Fried matter as the DOJ's campaign-finance investigation expands. Read on @PuckNews to learn why there was recentl...