It’s good to see that Tesla’s board is focusing on what’s important. The electric car maker revealed today that it will put Elon Musk’s contentious 2018 pay package to a shareholder vote again in mid-June, along with a proposal to move the company’s corporate domicile to Texas from Delaware. The pay vote makes sense: Musk created value and should get...
After a bruising couple of years for cash-burning financial technology startups, valuations are starting to rise again. Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund are co-leading a $150 million financing of Ramp, which offers credit cards and software for managing corporate expenses, at around a $7.65 billion valuation including the new capital, according...
There’s a palpable anxiety in Hollywood about AI leading to job losses or automating some of the creative process. Creative Artists Agency, the talent agency that represents stars like Brad Pitt and Reese Witherspoon, is also trying to figure out how entertainers can benefit. Last fall, the talent agency started testing a new initiative called CAA Vault...
A year ago, the board of Salesforce, one of the most acquisitive companies in tech, disbanded its mergers and acquisitions committee as it faced pressure from activist shareholders to reduce spending. The economic backdrop had sent deal-hunters into hiding. Forecasters braced for a global recession. Investment bankers complained they had nothing to...
More than two-thirds of The Information’s readers think Joe Biden would be a better president for the technology sector than Donald Trump, despite the Biden administration’s aggressive antitrust policies and moves to regulate artificial intelligence. Roughly 68% of respondents to The Information’s latest reader survey said they believe Biden would...
There are plenty of reasons generative artificial intelligence hasn’t taken off with businesses as much as pundits expected, including high costs and errors (i.e. hallucinations). One less-discussed reason is that conversational AI is simply hard to use. Big companies outside of tech can’t often hire the kind of technical talent needed to make AI software...
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