
Tom Dotan
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5 days ago |
newcomer.co | Tom Dotan |Eric Newcomer |Madeline Renbarger
OpenAI steals Instacart’s CEO as Sam Altman’s negotiations with partner Microsoft are increasingly shaky. Secondary share sales have become the easiest way for VCs and LPs to land liquidity in this frigid exit market, but some can come at a steep loss compared to a startup’s 2021 valuation. Read on for exclusive data on the current prices for 60+ startups. We also have more details on OpenAI’s decision to call off its for-profit conversion, for now, in a win for Elon Musk.
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2 weeks ago |
newcomer.co | Tom Dotan |Madeline Renbarger
From Tom Dotan, our new senior correspondent, fresh off two years covering Microsoft for the Wall Street JournalAt Microsoft’s annual executive huddle last month, the company’s chief financial officer, Amy Hood, put up a slide that charted the number of users for its Copilot consumer AI tool over the past year. It was essentially a flat line, showing around 20 million weekly users.
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1 month ago |
on.wsj.com | Tom Dotan
米マイクロソフトのある幹部は2000年、登山家で物理学教授のチェタン・ナヤック氏(53)に魅力的な提案をした。ワシントン州レドモンドにある同社に加わって、近くのレーニア山に一緒に登り、そして量子コンピューターを作ろうというものだった。 ナヤック氏はそれから2年以内に同州最高峰のレーニア山に登頂した。しかし実用的な量子デバイス開発への道のりは、現在も続いている。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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1 month ago |
businessandamerica.com | Tom Dotan
A Microsoft executive made a compelling pitch to mountaineer and physics professor Chetan Nayak in 2000: Join the Redmond, Wash., company and together they would scale nearby Mount Rainier—and build a quantum computer. Nearly all major tech companies are working to build a practical quantum computer, which they hope will enable leaps forward in fields such as encryption and medicine.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Tom Dotan
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00Paused0:00 / 5:57Inside the Race to Revolutionize Quantum ComputingPlay video: Inside the Race to Revolutionize Quantum ComputingA Microsoft MSFT 2.58%increase; green up pointing triangle executive made a compelling pitch to mountaineer and physics professor Chetan Nayak in 2000: Join the Redmond, Wash., company and together they would scale nearby Mount Rainier—and build a quantum computer. He summited Washington’s highest peak within two years.
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Really excited to be reporting and publishing again, freelancing for my friend @EricNewcomer and @NewcomerMedia. First post is an exclusive look at finances for some top AI startups like Anthropic in an overall robust start to the year. https://t.co/fGoaRmIa7q

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