Tiger Global fundraising falls short, major media orgs discuss subscription fees for training data
Tiger Global has so far raised ~$2B of the $6B it was targeting for a new private fund after eight months of fundraising - Link
FT sources: The NYT, News Corp, The Guardian, and others have discussed subscription fees for training data with top AI players like OpenAI and Google - Link
Reuters sources: In an investor presentation, Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino laid out plans to diversify Twitter's business away from a reliance on digital ads with video, commerce, and creator partnerships, more video content, and payments - Link
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit's API was not made to support third-party apps, but rather enable devs to enhance the experience on Reddit - Link
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Reddit CEO and Co-Founder Steve Huffman joins Jason to discuss building a platform that serves Reddit's community (13:33), addresses the situation with third-party apps and moderators (35:00), and much more! - Link
Alphabet is discontinuing its Google Domains business and selling the assets, including 10M hosted domains, to Squarespace for ~$180M - Link
Jitwei report: ByteDance ordered ~100K units of Nvidia GPUs (~$1B worth), including A100s ordered before US chip export controls went into effect and nerfed versions of Nvidia's H100 chip, designed to comply with new restrictions - Link
Amazon's proposed $1.7B acquisition of iRobot received clearance from the UK's CMA, as the deal awaits reviews from the FTC and the European Commission - Link
Intel announced plans to invest $4.6B to build a chip factory in Poland as the EU aims to boost chip production - Link
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