A profile of Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, who built the $5.3B firm outside his famous family, growing from a $40M fund in 2011 to a $3.3B eighth fund — How Joshua Kushner won over Silicon Valley CEOs and built a $5.3 billion venture firm outside his famous family.
A look at the escalating battle between YouTube and ad blockers, as YouTube more frequently adapts its detection methods and rolls out new ways to serve ads — Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. — YouTube recently took dramatic action …
Coinbase reports receiving 13,079 law enforcement requests between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023, up 6% YoY and 3x since 2020; ~50% were from the US — Almost half of the 13,079 law enforcement requests Coinbase received in 2023 came from the U.S., according to a new report.
Meta's and YouTube's use of celebrities' likenesses for AI chatbots and songs raises tough questions about identity, IP, safeguards, and licensing — Meta and YouTube are looking to Demi Lovato, Tom Brady and other A-listers to mainstream the technology — flawed guardrails and all.
Study: around 2,127 Web3 games became inactive in the past five years, representing 75.5% of the 2,817 that were launched in the same period — How Many Web3 Games Have Failed? — Around 2,127 web3 games have failed in the last five years since the GameFi niche emerged, representing 75.5% of the 2,817 web3 games launched.
Unity plans to cut 265 jobs, or 3.8% of its staff, and end its services deal with VFX company Wētā FX to focus on its “core business” — UPDATE: Scroll down for a statement from WētāFX: — Reuters is reporting that Unity Software (U.N) …
An in-depth reflection on Marc Andreessen's “techno-optimist manifesto”: tech is amazing, the high cost of delays, AI and risk, d/acc, centralization, and more — Special thanks to Morgan Beller, Juan Benet, Eli Dourado, Sriram Krishnan, Nate Soares, Jaan Tallinn, Vincent Weisser …
A study of UK teenagers: 79% of online users aged 13 to 17 use generative AI, compared to 31% of internet users aged 16+; 51% of ages 7 to 17 use Snap's My AI — Teenagers and children in the UK are far more likely than adults to have embraced generative artificial intelligence (AI) …
Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$10.7B, narrowly beating est., and net income up nearly 3x to ~$507M, boosted by strong Chinese travel demand — Meituan recorded a third straight quarter of profit, after strong travel demand helped the food delivery giant defy slowing growth …
Europol, the US, Ukraine, and other countries arrest members of a ransomware group in Ukraine linked to attacks on organizations in 71 countries — In cooperation with Europol and Eurojust, law enforcement agencies from seven nations have arrested in Ukraine the core members …
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
