Sitemap - 2023 - TWiST Ticker
Microsoft plans to deprecate Windows Mixed Reality, Cisco acquires Isovalent
Microsoft Copilot gets a music creation feature, Guac trains algorithms to predict grocery demands
Streaming TV is entering its franchise era, Flipboard plans to replace its social backend
Waymo launches curbside robotaxi at Phoenix airport, MrBeast’s launches an analytics platform
Microsoft releases Phi-2 AI language model, Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban smart glasses
Meta announces initiative to promote responsible AI, Robinhood launches crypto trading in EU
Google Announces a New AI Model with Three Tiers, Sam Altman Named CEO of the Year
OpenAI Signed a LOI to Spend $51M on Brain-Inspired Chips, Meta Announces Seamless Communication
Together AI raises $102M to pre-train open source models, Spotify Wrapped 2023 adds an AI DJ
Black Friday sales hit $70B globally, Amazon becomes the largest delivery business in the US
Stripe & Shopify share real-time visualization of Black Friday and Cyber Monday data
OpenAI breakthrough model Q*, Google updates Bard with access to YouTube content
Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO, Nvidia Q3 revenue up 206% YoY
Broadcom to close $69bn VMWare acquisition, Zoom Q3 earnings, OpenAI talent poaching
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired as CEO, Co-Founder Greg Brockman & senior OpenAI researchers resign
Humane reveals full details on $699 Ai Pin, Unity earnings
Roblox earnings, Microsoft inks cloud deal with Oracle due to AI demand
Uber earnings, 23andMe goes 2FA by default, Enable raises $120M Series D
OpenAI DevDay announcements, Bumble CEO to step down
SBF guilty on all seven counts, Apple earnings, and more
Airbnb & DoorDash earnings, SafeMoon execs charged
UK announces new AI policy paper, WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy next week
Mistral seeks $300M at a $1B+ valuation, Shield AI raises $200M at a $2.7B valuation
Biden signs genAI EO, OpenAI launches "All Tools" feature
Amazon earnings, Google to invest up to $2B more in Anthropic
Meta earnings, YouTrip raises $50M, CentML raises $27M
Alphabet, Microsoft, Spotify, Snap earnings + more
CA's DMV suspends Cruise's robotaxi license, Nvidia begins designing Arm-based CPUs
Databricks acquires Arcion for $100M, Spider-Man 2 sells 2.5M copies in first 24 hours
Convoy shuts down, NY AG sues Gemini, Genesis, and DCG over defrauding investors
Global AI startup funding up 27% y/y in Q3, Amazon announces 10K Rivian EVs in its delivery fleets
Former FTX exec testifies against SBF, US VC deal volume drops to lowest level since 2018
Flexport cuts 20% of staff, OpenAI generating revenue at a $1.3B annualized rate
Latest in FTX trial, DeepMind cut staff expenses by 39% in 2022
Ellison says SBF instructed her to invest with customer funds, Shift files for bankruptcy
Unity CEO steps down, Microsoft losing $20/user/month on GitHub's Copilot
OpenSea cuts 20% of staff, Headway raises $125M, Habyt raises $42M
Anthropic in talks to raise $2B at a $20B-$30B valuation, Qualtrics cuts ~14% of staff
LinkedIn announces new OpenAI-powered tools, Greylock announces new $1B early-stage fund
FTC sues Amazon, OpenAI seeks $80B-$90B valuation in secondary offering
Blue Origin to change CEOs, Openly raises $100M, Beehiiv acquires Swapstack
Amazon to invest up to $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI launches voice and image features in ChatGPT
JOKR raises $50M down round, HiddenLayer raises $50M, Meta expands paid verification program
Klaviyo IPOs at $30/share, Cisco acquires Splunk for ~$28B in cash
Instacart closes first day up 12%+, FTX sues SBF's parents
Instacart prices IPO at $30/share, Levelpath raises $30M Series A
Bastion raises $25M seed, Joby to build eVTOL production plant in Ohio
Instacart to IPO next week, EU fines TikTok ~$379M, Adobe Q3 earnings
Arm pops ~25% in trading debut, Flexport revenue dropped ~70% in H1
Arm prices IPO at $51/share, Starlink generated $1.4B in revenue in 2022
Apple announces new USB-C powered iPhone 15 lineup, TikTok starts rolling out TikTok Shop in US
Spotify pushes audiobooks, IRS to use AI to target billion-dollar firms
Imbue raises $200M, Inceptive raises $100M, Stack AV raises $1B+
Meta considers offering ad-free, paid versions of FB and Insta in the EU, Beta Bionics raises $100M
OpenAI on pace to generate $1B+ in NTM revenue, China to approve first genAI tools for public use
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise, Sen. Schumer to host closed-door AI forum
Instacart and Klaviyo file for IPO, Didi to sell smart car arm to Xpeng
Snowflake earnings, Hugging Face confirms $235M Series D, Modular raises $100M
Nvidia smashes earnings, SpaceX working with Cloudflare to increase Starlink speeds
Arm files for IPO, Ramp raises $300M down round
UK looking to purchase £100M worth of GPUs, Meta to launch web-based version of Threads
OpenAI makes first public acquisition, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt building moonshot nonprofit
UK plans AI summit, Commerce Dept builds "startup" team to deploy $39B in chip subsidies
Google plans major AI release this fall, Gulf nations acquire thousands of Nvidia GPUs
Anthropic to raise $100M from SK Telecom, SoftBank to acquire 25% of Arm from its own Vision Fund
Waymo and Cruise allowed to operate robotaxi fleets 24/7, ByteDance revenue growth slows in China
US launches AI DARPA contest, Chinese tech giants purchase $20B+ of Nvidia GPUs
Earnings: Roblox, Lyft, Twilio, Toast; UMG/Google in talks for AI licensing deal
Top chipmakers plan to invest in Arm's IPO, Stability AI exec departure, Vision Fund bounces back
Neuralink raises $280M, Saudi PIF reports $15.6B loss in 2022
Amazon, Apple, Airbnb, Cloudflare earnings
Robinhood, Shopify, DoorDash earnings, Clutter sells for huge discount
Arm targets $60B-$70B IPO valuation, top ad agencies flee TV for YouTube
Uber earnings, Nvidia asks for its cloud provider's customers, Google overhauls Assistant
Meta earnings, SBF won't face campaign finance charge
Top AI leaders testify before Congress over risks, FTC finalizing Amazon lawsuit
Alphabet, Microsoft, Spotify & Snap earnings
Twitter starts rebrand to X, Worldcoin starts rolling out its token
SEC subpoenas Bolt, OpenAI to launch ChatGPT for Android, Sergey Brin returns to the office
Netflix and Tesla earnings, Google tests AI-powered journalist assistant
Meta releases Llama 2, Apple works on "Apple GPT," Sequoia shakes up partners
Nvidia closes in on Lambda Labs investment, Netcraft raises $100M
SpaceX on track to double revenue to $8B in 2023, Apple rebrands Vision Pro group
Elon Musk announces xAI, former Celsius CEO arrested on fraud charges
Oklo agrees to go public via SPAC, Arm targets $35B-$40B price range
Judge denies FTC's request to postpone $70B MSFT/ATVI deal, Ryan Petersen joins Founders Fund
Former Sequoia offshoots to go head to head, OpenAI opens up Code Interpreter
Adam Mosseri says Threads won't encourage politics, Apple plans slow retail rollout for Vision Pro
Threads hits 30M signups in 24 hours, Crypto funding drops again, US VC funding down 50% y/y
Best Nasdaq H1 since 1983, DWAC insider trading, Apple becomes first to close above $3T
Inflection AI raises $1.3B, Shein reportedly files for US IPO
Judge denies SBF's motion to dismiss charges, Nothing raises $96M
Unity stock jumps 15% on AI marketplace announcement, Byju’s attempts to raise $1B in turmoil
Databricks acquires MosaicML, Apollo leads $1B debt investment into Wolfspeed
Reddit revenue growth slows in 2022, IRL shuts down after faking 95% of users
Secondary market heats up for buyers, beehiiv raises $12.5M, Captions raises $25M
Kobold Metals to raise $200M, ElevenLabs raises $19M, Grab to cut 1K employees
Alibaba replaces CEO, US VCs up investments in defense tech
Tiger Global offers to offload individual stakes in startups, BlackCat attempts to blackmail Reddit
Tiger Global fundraising falls short, major media orgs discuss subscription fees for training data
Alphabet tells employees to avoid Bard and ChatGPT, Uber to introduce video ads
Databricks surpassed $1B revenue last year on 60% growth, Spotify pivots podcasting business
7000+ Subreddits go dark in protest, A16Z merges finance and consumer teams
Zuck addresses Apple's headset and announces gen AI plans, Cohere raises $270M
Chris Licht leaves CNN, Goldman Sachs lowers recession odds
Apple unveils its Vision Pro headset, The SEC sues Coinbase
Microsoft signs billion-dollar AI deal, Artifact uses GPT-4 to rewrite "clickbait" headlines
Runway raises $100M, WordPress launches paid subscriptions
Nvidia briefly surpasses $1T market cap, 350+ leaders sign statement around AI's existential threat
Paradigm drops crypto label, Neuralink lands FDA approval for first human study
Sam Altman weighs pulling OpenAI out of EU over AI Act, Nvidia + Snowflake earnings
Figure raises $70M to build humanoid robot, Spotify building AI tools for host-read ads
OpenAI proposes IAEA for AI, Binance commingling allegations, BuzzFeed's AI chat app
EU fines Meta $1.3B, Meta in talks with Magic Leap for AR deal, TikTok sues Montana
Instacart's ad business surges, Apple restricts ChatGPT, Paradromics raises $33M
Snowflake in talks to acquire Neeva, OpenAI announces ChatGPT iOS app
Shein raises $2B at a ~33% markdown, Google launches AI biotech tools, Zoom partners with Anthropic
Sam Altman testifies before Congress, Rumble acquires Callin, IBM acquires Polar Security
Klaviyo files for IPO, OpenAI to release open-source model
Elon hires new Twitter CEO, Anthropic upgrades AI chatbot, Google expands Bard
Google announces PaLM 2, Robinhood & Unity earnings, SoftBank Vision Fund loses ~$2B
Roblox & Affirm earnings, Sam Altman to testify before Congress, Uber rolls out flight booking in UK
Airbnb earnings, Tucker Carlson to launch show on Twitter, Bittrex files for bankruptcy
Google to change search layout, Amazon building ad-focused AI team, Slash raises $19M
Alphabet engineer claims OpenAI and Google will lose AI moat, Apple & DoorDash earnings
Shopify Q1 earnings, former OpenSea employee convicted of NFT insider trading, Fed hikes 25 bps
VP Harris meets with top AI CEOs, Cohere close to raising $250M at $2B, Inflection AI launches Pi
Amazon & Snap earnings, Zipline valued at $4.2B, Clubhouse plans to cut 50%
Meta earnings, Dropbox cuts 16%, generative AI tool for lawyers raises $21M Series A
Google & Microsoft earnings, Replit valued at $1.2B, UK blocks Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal
Tiger Global marks down $12.7B VC fund by ~20%, SeatGeek confidentially files for IPO
Netflix Q1 earnings, Microsoft developing AI chip, Reddit to charge for AI training
AI-generated Drake song goes viral, Google ramps up new AI search product, SEC charges Bittrex
AWS aims to be the "Switzerland" of LLMs, YC portfolio cos upset about Continuity Fund shutdown
Twitter working on its own LLM, UMG tells streaming platforms to block AI scrapers
Substack rolls out Notes, MilkRun shuts down, Tonal CEO steps down
Elon says Substack was trying to download a portion of Twitter's database, SenseTime debuts AI-suite
Google to add AI chat to search, global VC funding drops 53% y/y in Q1
Substack announces Notes, Tiger Global starts selling LP positions, Scopely acquired for $4.9B
Bloomberg develops "BloombergGPT," Frank founder charged with fraud, LayerZero Labs raises $120M
ByteDance revenue hits $80B, Bard incorporates PaLM, Saudi Arabia discloses VC ties
Italy blocks ChatGPT, Block refutes Hindenburg claims, Twitter publishes source code
Petition to stop AI development, Binance hid its China ties, new ByteDance app hits Top 10
First Citizens acquires SVB assets, Twitter values itself at ~$20B; CFTC sues Binance and CZ
Do Kwon charged, TikTok goes into damage control mode, Axios HQ raises $20M
OpenAI rolls out plug-ins, Hindenburg shorts Block, TikTok CEO grilled in House hearing
Coinbase issued Wells notice, Bill Gates on AI, Tonal in talks for >80% markdown
Adobe launches “Firefly,” Unlearn.AI raises $15M, Bing integrates DALL-E
Amazon to cut 9K more jobs, FDIC splits SVB's assets, Netflix's ad tier hits 1M MAUs
Tiger Global marks down VC investments by 33%, Twitch CEO steps down, SVB files for Ch. 11
SVB Capital’s investments, Adobe earnings, Via acquires Citymapper
Stripe raises $6.5B, Microsoft integrates GPT-4, First Republic weighs sale
Meta to cut 10K more roles, OpenAI debuts GPT-4 as Anthropic launches Claude
SVB depositors backstopped, First Republic falls ~62%, YC scales back its growth-stage team
Meta to cut thousands of more jobs, Embark to shut down, Overhaul raises $38M