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Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

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By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

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Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cade Metz， Karen Weise and Tripp Mickle
29 April 2024 at 00:01
The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.

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Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

✇NYT: Technology
By: Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur
26 April 2024 at 10:43
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.

‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

✇NYT: Technology
By: Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur
25 April 2024 at 00:00
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.

In Silicon Valley, You Can Be Worth Billions and It’s Not Enough

✇NYT: Technology
By: David Streitfeld
23 April 2024 at 10:28
Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he engaged in insider trading for a profit of $415,726.

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Andreas Bechtolsheim, a founder of Sun Microsystems, at the company’s offices in Mountain View, Calif., in 2007. He helped bankroll Google in 1998.

TikTok’s Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass

✇NYT: Technology
By: Mara Hvistendahl and Lauren Hirsch
18 April 2024 at 06:12
Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.

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The former headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of the video sharing app TikTok, in Beijing.

Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.

✇NYT: Technology
By: Liz Alderman and Adam Satariano
12 April 2024 at 00:01
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.

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“The issue with not having a European champion is that the road map gets set by the United States,” Mr. Mensch said.

Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.

✇NYT: Technology
By: Erin Griffith
5 April 2024 at 14:10
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech companies, including Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI and Discord.

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Inside Amira Yahyaoui’s Claims about Mos, a Student Aid Start-Up

✇NYT: Technology
By: Erin Griffith
25 March 2024 at 11:04
Amira Yahyaoui, a human rights activist, promoted the success of her student aid start-up, Mos. Some of her statements do not add up, according to internal data and people familiar with the company.

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Amira Yahyaoui at the 2013 World Bank and IMF annual meeting in Washington. She founded Mos, a student aid start-up, in 2018.
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