Brian Boyle
writer/reporter/editor | currently: @thedailyupside | past: @sfgate, @techmeme, @latimesopinion | also seen in: @slate, @vice, @milwaukeemag | 🏳️🌈
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thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
To catch up in the AI race, Elon Musk’s xAI is going to have to burn some proverbial rubber — and lots and lots of literal cash. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that Musk’s artificial intelligence startup is in talks to raise $4.3 billion in an equity investment — on top of the $5 billion it had already been trying to borrow from debt investors. According to a separate report from Bloomberg, the fundraising comes as the company continues to burn through a remarkable amount of cash every month.
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thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
There’s a big regulatory shift under consideration in Washington. Possible side effects could be lethal for cable TV. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that the White House is considering policies that would ban pharmaceutical companies from directly advertising to patients. The news comes just after Senators Bernie Sanders and Angus King introduced a bill with similar intentions last week. If it goes into effect, it could leave a $10 billion void in the advertising ecosystem.
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thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s an … electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, or eVTOL (neither of which exactly rolls off the tongue, if you ask us). As Airbus lands major sales and Boeing tries to regain its credibility at this year’s Paris Air Show, the upstart not-quite-a-plane, not-quite-a-helicopter, not-quite-cleared-for-liftoff eVTOL industry is climbing closer and closer to achieving its sky-high ambitions.
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thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
The next Blue Origin flight is lifting off in five … four … three … two … wait one minute, please!As POTUS and his First Billionaire Buddy Elon Musk (very publicly) work out their feelings for each other after a (very public) falling out, NASA is suddenly looking to decrease its dependency on key contractor SpaceX, according to a Washington Post report.
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2 weeks ago |
thedailyupside.com | Brian Boyle
Jerome Powell sees what we see and he hears the huffing and puffing (hard not to), but he’s not budging as far as anyone can tell. Despite a slew of new data published Thursday and earlier this week showing inflation has cooled, Powell and the Federal Reserve are still almost universally expected to hold off on cutting interest rates when the monetary policy committee convenes again next week — opting instead to wait until their next meeting in September.
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This one’s easy: brainwashing billionaire scions is the most effective way to combat corporate monopolies
Like what is the political message in INCEPTION (2010) lol
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