Peter Kafka

1 week ago | businessinsider.es | Peter Kafka |Daniel Alonso Viña

Meta ha comprado casi la mitad de Scale AI por unos 13.000 millones de euros. En teoría, lo ha hecho porque Mark Zuckerberg quiere asegurarse los servicios de datos de Scale AI. Pero esto parece una adquisición disfrazada de fichaje. ¿Está Zuckerberg pagando todo ese dinero solo para contratar al cofundador Alexandr Wang? Probablemente no sepas quién es Alexandr Wang, pero eso va a cambiar muy pronto.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget

You probably don't know who Alexandr Wang is. But that's going to change: The 28-year-old is about to become known as the guy Mark Zuckerberg spent $15 billion on. Wang is the CEO of Scale AI, a data company that works with giant AI leaders like Meta and OpenAI. And Meta is reportedly about to spend $15 billion to buy a 49% stake in Scale AI. What does Meta get for that investment — which values Scale AI at close to $30 billion, about double its last valuation from a year ago?

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Brad Davis |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget

Scott Frank figured out how to thrive in Hollywood. Now he's doing it at Netflix. But the writer/director has advice for young people who want to follow in his footsteps: Try something else. If Frank were starting out his career in 2025, he said he wouldn't mess around with movies or television. "I'd want to go work in the gaming world, where I think there's some really interesting stuff going on," he told me this month.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Brad Davis |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget

No one wants to own cable networks anymore. Would you like to buy some? That is the pitch that Warner Bros. Discovery is making to Wall Street now that it has announced it's splitting itself into two companies: One will own Warners' movie and television studio and the HBO Max streaming service; the other — which it's calling its "global networks" unit — will own a bunch of cable TV networks including CNN, TNT, Discovery and the Food Network.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Brad Davis |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget

Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday — traditionally an event where the company tries to woo developers, users, and Wall Street all at once. Maybe that will happen this time around. But only because expectations are so low: Apple is limping into this year beset with all kinds of problems, from many directions, and it's not clear how it's going to work its way out from them.