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Twitch is a live-streaming platform owned by Amazon that primarily focuses on video game content, but has expanded to include other areas such as music, creative arts, and talk shows. Twitch faces competition from other live-streaming platforms such as YouTube and Facebook Gaming.

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TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants

By Ann Gehan · Oct 22, 2025 6:00am PDT
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in recent weeks has begun pushing its sellers to switch to... As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled...
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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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AI Enigma: Search Traffic Drops to Sites, but Revenue Doesn’t—Yet

By Catherine Perloff · Oct 21, 2025 6:00am PDT
In the past year, Mexican hotel chain Tafer Hotels & Resorts has seen traffic to its website fall 25%. Despite that, Tafer’s revenue is up year over year, according to Max Gomez Montejo, chief digital marketing officer at the hotel chain. Tafer isn’t alone. A growing number of companies say their websites are losing traffic, thanks to how... In the past year, Mexican hotel chain Tafer Hotels & Resorts has seen traffic to its website...
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What Investors Are Missing in Apple’s iPhone 17 Sales Surge
By Martin Peers · Oct 20, 2025 5:00pm PDT
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The Briefing

What Investors Are Missing in Apple’s iPhone 17 Sales Surge

By Martin Peers · Oct 20, 2025 5:00pm PDT
It’s the calm before the earnings storm. Netflix kicks off tech earnings on Tuesday with its third-quarter report, and most of the big tech names come next week. Already, though, investors are anticipating the news. That’s most obviously true of Apple, whose shares jumped 4% on Monday on a research report about strong sales of the recently... It’s the calm before the earnings storm. Netflix kicks off tech earnings on Tuesday with its...
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Nvidia, Broadcom and AMD Face New Risks From OpenAI Deals

By Anita Ramaswamy · Oct 17, 2025 6:00am PDT · 3 comments
The deals keep coming for semiconductor firms and OpenAI. In the past month, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom have each reached very different agreements to supply chips to OpenAI. The arrangements open up all three to the risk that OpenAI, which expects to burn $115 billion through 2029, can’t afford to keep its commitments. The... The deals keep coming for semiconductor firms and OpenAI. In the past month, Nvidia, Advanced...
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Applied AI

What We Learned From Salesforce’s Dreamforce; Using OpenAI and Anthropic For Different Tasks

By Kevin McLaughlin and Jing Yang · Oct 16, 2025 11:06am PDT
Welcome back!Salesforce is shifting its artificial intelligence strategy to boost flagging growth as even CEO Marc Benioff this week acknowledged a gap between the technology’s capabilities and corporate customers’ willingness to buy it, Erin and I reported Wednesday. At its annual Dreamforce event for customers in San Francisco, we were... Welcome back!Salesforce is shifting its artificial intelligence strategy to boost flagging growth...
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Salesforce CEO Shifts AI Strategy as OpenAI Threat Looms

By Kevin McLaughlin and Erin Woo · Oct 15, 2025 2:22pm PDT · 5 comments
At Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce event for customers last year, CEO Marc Benioff told roughly 45,000 attendees that using artificial intelligence to automate everything from customer service to sales functions was an easy and quick process. At this year’s event, now underway in San Francisco, Benioff toned down the rhetoric. He said Tuesday at... At Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce event for customers last year, CEO Marc Benioff told roughly...
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AI Ad Tech ‘Land Grab’ Pits Salesforce Against Google, Microsoft and Amazon
By Catherine Perloff · Oct 13, 2025 6:00am PDT
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AI Ad Tech ‘Land Grab’ Pits Salesforce Against Google, Microsoft and Amazon

By Catherine Perloff · Oct 13, 2025 6:00am PDT
The murky, highly complex business of helping advertisers buy space on digital media is currently dominated by Google, Amazon and a handful of much smaller ad tech firms. But an array of other companies, including Salesforce, Microsoft and a new initiative led by AppNexus founder Brian O’Kelley, hopes to use new artificial intelligence tools to... The murky, highly complex business of helping advertisers buy space on digital media is currently...
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Applied AI

OpenAI Makes it Easier to Build Agents—and Harder to Switch Models

By Aaron Holmes · Oct 7, 2025 10:30am PDT · 1 comment
Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to create customized agents that automate complex tasks, but they’ve gotten mixed results. Now, OpenAI is pushing a new suite of tools to make the assembly of agents easier, and to peel customers away from competitors like Anthropic and Google.OpenAI on... Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to...
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The Big Read

Can Reed Jobs Be More Than the Son of Steve?

By Jemima McEvoy · Oct 3, 2025 6:06am PDT · 1 comment
Last month, Reed Jobs was on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers and representatives from America’s top hospitals, universities and medical organizations. He came to deliver an impassioned plea: Save the National Institutes of Health, which faces a push by President Donald Trump to slash its budget 40%. As a keynote speaker at the... Last month, Reed Jobs was on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers and representatives from America...
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Cybersecurity Startup Snyk Considers Buyout Interest as IPO Plans Stall

By Valida Pau, Cory Weinberg, Katie Roof and Kevin McLaughlin · Oct 1, 2025 10:36am PDT · 3 comments
Snyk, a startup that sells security tools for developers, seemed like a shoo-in for a lucrative initial public offering a few years ago. Sales were doubling or tripling every year, reaching into the hundreds of millions of dollars annually, as exploding corporate use of open-source software code created vulnerabilities that businesses needed to... Snyk, a startup that sells security tools for developers, seemed like a shoo-in for a lucrative...
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Three New Papers AI Researchers Are Reading; What To Expect at AI Agenda Live
By Stephanie Palazzolo · Sep 30, 2025 7:00am PDT
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AI Agenda

Three New Papers AI Researchers Are Reading; What To Expect at AI Agenda Live

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Sep 30, 2025 7:00am PDT
It wouldn’t be the eve of our AI Agenda Live conference without a midnight scoop! In case you missed it, check out last night’s story from Amir, Cory and me on OpenAI’s financials for the first half of 2025.I might be slightly sleep-deprived, but I’m thrilled to be seeing many of you in just a few hours at our AI Agenda Live: The Next Wave event... It wouldn’t be the eve of our AI Agenda Live conference without a midnight scoop! In case you...
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Artificial Intelligence

How Jensen Huang is Using Nvidia Cash to Rule the AI Economy

By Anissa Gardizy, Nick Wingfield, Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu · Sep 27, 2025 6:00am PDT · 8 comments
Even by the standards of one of the most prodigious dealmakers in tech, the past month or so has been a head-spinning one for Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Just in September, Nvidia agreed to buy any unused Nvidia graphics processing units that cloud provider CoreWeave doesn’t sell to other customers over the next seven years, a deal potentially... Even by the standards of one of the most prodigious dealmakers in tech, the past month or so has...
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The Big Read

The $10 Billion Enigma of Mira Murati

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Sep 26, 2025 6:00am PDT · 7 comments
This summer, Meta Platforms offered multiple researchers at artificial intelligence startup Thinking Machines Lab sizable compensation packages to join its new AI lab. When all of the researchers declined the offers, Thinking Machines CEO Mira Murati sent a flattering news report about Meta’s attempted raid to her staff over Slack. At the same... This summer, Meta Platforms offered multiple researchers at artificial intelligence startup...
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The Investment Bankers Winning at the AI Deal Game

By Valida Pau · Sep 25, 2025 6:00am PDT
There’s nothing like an earth-changing new technology to get the tech industry’s dealmaking juices flowing. That’s been good news and bad news for bankers, who have pocketed fees but have been boxed out of some of the biggest deals. We’ve pulled together a list of the bankers who have led the way on artificial intelligence dealmaking. The... There’s nothing like an earth-changing new technology to get the tech industry’s dealmaking...
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Apple’s Missing Savant
By Martin Peers · Sep 24, 2025 5:00pm PDT · 2 comments
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The Briefing

Apple’s Missing Savant

By Martin Peers · Sep 24, 2025 5:00pm PDT · 2 comments
If you’ve ever wondered why Apple has never bought a TV giant like Warner Bros. Discovery, just look at the minidrama over its upcoming Apple TV+ thriller “The Savant.” Apple this week delayed release of the show, about a “top-secret undercover investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent... If you’ve ever wondered why Apple has never bought a TV giant like Warner Bros. Discovery, just...
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Meta’s Wearables VP Alex Himel Discusses New Display Glasses

By Akash Pasricha · Sep 19, 2025 12:43pm PDT
Meta Platforms hopes to make money out of its augmented reality glasses through software features, such as subscriptions to its artificial intelligence service, its vice president of wearables Alex Himel said in an interview with The Information’s TITV this week. But Meta doesn’t have near-term plans to try and sell ads on the glasses,... Meta Platforms hopes to make money out of its augmented reality glasses through software...