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5 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Sri Muppidi
5 hours agoWarren Buffett Says to Forget About 10,000 Hours of Practice — If You Want to Master Something, Do This InsteadAt the 2025 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, the "Oracle of Omaha" described the systematic approach to success that has worked so well for him over his storied career.
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Investors have reaped billions of dollars in gains from backing database software firms Snowflake and Databricks. Now venture capitalists are circling ClickHouse, a startup some investors believe could rival the incumbents, particularly as the rise of artificial intelligence increases demand for its database software. The startup is in talks to raise at a $6 billion valuation, triple that of four years ago, according to two people with knowledge of the deal.
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1 week ago | 
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14 hours ago'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in MemphisThe company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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1 week ago | 
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Source: The InformationAs OpenAI seeks to overhaul its corporate structure, it also expects to slash the revenue share Microsoft receives by at least half by decade’s end, The Information reported. Microsoft, whose servers power OpenAI products, hasn’t yet agreed to the changes, according to a person who spoke with a senior Microsoft executive involved in the negotiations.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Source: The New York TimesThrive Capital announced a new vehicle called Thrive Holdings, aimed at “investing in, acquiring, and operating businesses for the long term,” said the New York venture firm’s founder Joshua Kushner in an X post. The investment vehicle will start and buy companies that could gain from artificial intelligence, including services-oriented industries such as accounting, reported The New York Times.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Nearly anyone who’s anyone agrees: Bigger isn’t better—when it comes to conferences and networking. Indeed, the tech, media and finance elite have increasingly come to prefer an intimate gathering over attending anything giant and sponsored to death. Web Summit, Collision, South by Southwest and pretty much any event thrown by a media brand have lost some of their appeal and cultural cachet, say nearly a dozen of the best-connected folks we know.
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3 weeks ago | 
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For two years, ChatGPT has been OpenAI’s cash cow. But by the end of the decade, the company has told some potential and current investors it expects combined sales from agents and other new products to exceed its popular chatbot, lifting total sales to $125 billion in 2029 and $174 billion the next year, according to documents seen by The Information.
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3 weeks ago | 
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An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated Thrive Capital has used the option of investing in the latest OpenAI round at the last round’s valuation. While it has that option, Thrive invested in the round with the same terms as the other investors, said a person close to the fundraise. An edited version of the rest of the column follows.
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1 month ago | 
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Startups whose products evaluate artificial intelligence to make sure it isn’t making things up or delivering unsafe results, like Patronus and Braintrust, have caught the attention of investors. But previously undisclosed sales data from these and other startups selling evaluation software show corporate customers have been relatively slow to buy such tools. Take Weights & Biases, an eight-year-old startup that CoreWeave agreed to acquire for more than $1 billion last month.
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1 month ago | 
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5 hours agoArtificial intelligence is scaling at an unprecedented speed. As major tech companies roll out AI-integrated products at an ever-accelerating speed, the technology is seeping deeper into every day life. And as the tech world makes strides in generative and agentic AI and more, we are getting closer …
