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The Big Read

Benchmark’s AI Pressure Test: High Prices, Smaller Stakes—and a Poached Star

By Natasha Mascarenhas · Oct 31, 2025 9:49am PDT · 1 comment
Last year, Benchmark, the storied venture capital firm, embarked on a lavish courtship of Brendan Foody, founder and CEO of Mercor, a startup that fills a lucrative niche in AI by hiring workers to train AI programs. First, General Partner Victor Lazarte chatted with Foody over Zoom. Then Peter Fenton, the firm’s longest-tenured active GP, took... Last year, Benchmark, the storied venture capital firm, embarked on a lavish courtship of Brendan...
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WTF: Women in Tech, Media and Finance

OpenAI’s Potential IPO, AI Ending 9-9-6: WTF Highlights

By The Information Staff · Oct 30, 2025 12:05pm PDT
It’s hard to find a leader in tech and finance who isn’t feverishly figuring out how to implement artificial intelligence in their company. At The Information’s Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference, executives said their use of AI had gone well beyond experimentation, changing the kind and number of employees they hire, how they reach new... It’s hard to find a leader in tech and finance who isn’t feverishly figuring out how to implement...
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The Briefing

Netflix’s Success Spotlights Warner’s Failure

By Martin Peers · Oct 21, 2025 5:00pm PDT
OpenAI continued its march to world domination, unveiling its long-anticipated Web browser, ChatGPT Atlas. It offers some snazzy features, including a split-screen view that allows you to ask ChatGPT questions related to the webpage you’re on without switching tabs. Given how difficult it is to change people’s ingrained habits, getting consumers... OpenAI continued its march to world domination, unveiling its long-anticipated Web browser, ...
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Creator Economy

Snapchat Now Wants (Some) Videos to Stick Around

By Kaya Yurieff · Jun 12, 2025 2:00pm PDT
Snapchat has realized the limits of disappearing content—especially when it comes to attracting creators. On Thursday, the app said users will be able to automatically save their disappearing Stories to their public profiles. That’s a big change, and it’s one that should help make the app more of a destination for creators, whose Instagram,... Snapchat has realized the limits of disappearing content—especially when it comes to attracting...
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Creator Economy

YouTube’s Election Boost; Spiegel Goes Public on Snapchat

By Kaya Yurieff · Feb 4, 2025 3:50pm PST
We’re hearing a lot of YouTube creators and media executives have already descended on New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl Sunday. Back at home in rainy Mountain View, Google leaders have been talking up the last national event that boosted YouTube—the 2024 presidential election. In a call with investors late Tuesday, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai... We’re hearing a lot of YouTube creators and media executives have already descended on New...
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The Briefing

Snapchat’s Safety Struggle

By Erin Woo · Oct 1, 2024 5:00pm PDT
Snap likes to cast its Snapchat app as “an antidote to social media.” Unlike its rival social media apps, Snapchat was “designed to be safe” for kids, the company claims. But designing something to be safe and actually making it safe aren’t the same things.How Snap has fallen short on this front became clear from an unredacted version of a... Snap likes to cast its Snapchat app as “an antidote to social media.” Unlike its rival social...