A.I.
Eriq Gardner
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August 7, 2024
The Record Industry’s Full-Blown A.I. War
A pair of well-capitalized A.I. music startups have found themselves in the middle of a gnarly lawsuit against the industry’s biggest labels in a case that may set precedents across numerous creative industries. These suits will either be remembered as a power play, or a devastating blow to their own assets and their relevance to artists.
Dylan Byers
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July 12, 2024
The Thiel-Hoffman Face-off in Sun Valley
News and notes from inside the Lodge, where former classmates Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel had a very public quarrel, Zaslav revealed his ’24 agenda, and masters of the universe debated the fate of Joe Biden.
William D. Cohan
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June 9, 2024
Shari’s Final Cherry & Elon’s $56B D-Day
Advice for David Ellison and Gerry Cardinale as they contemplate a last-minute wrinkle in their Paramount deal. Plus, notes on Elon’s comp and the GameStop roller coaster.
William D. Cohan
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May 29, 2024
S.B.F.’s Diesel Therapy
The crypto convict is on a cross-country prison bus to California, planning his appeal, and claiming Sullivan & Cromwell bartered away his freedom. Does he have a case?
Theodore Schleifer
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May 22, 2024
Sacks and the City
As Donald Trump traipses around the country on a fundraising expedition, an expensive podcast recording—a dinner, if you will—hosted by Silicon Valley’s loudest personalities has accumulated an air of mystery.
Baratunde Thurston
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May 19, 2024
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
And we don’t feel fine.
Theodore Schleifer
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May 15, 2024
Sacksfest ’24 & Melinda’s Split Decision
The latest details on Silicon Valley’s Trump fundraiser, the return of Palmer Luckey, and Marissa Mayer’s guest list. Plus: Gates insiders on why Melinda left the Foundation.
Theodore Schleifer
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May 8, 2024
The Silicon Valley Megadonor Olympics
A semi-scientific mid-cycle power ranking of who’s trending up (Marissa Mayer, Vinod Khosla), who’s trending down (Jan Koum, Peter Thiel), and who’s massively overhyped among the nouveau riche tech money crowd.
Baratunde Thurston
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May 6, 2024
Search and Destroy
A new wave of A.I.-assisted search products, like Perplexity A.I., have the biggest tech incumbents on their heels. Are we witnessing the birth of a new internet?
Theodore Schleifer
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April 30, 2024
Guess Who’s Coming to Elon’s Dinner
A secret billionaire dinner party in Hollywood, convened by Elon Musk and David Sacks, presages a major political realignment as Silicon Valley money turns against Biden and begins flowing to Donald Trump.
Theodore Schleifer
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April 24, 2024
‘All-In’ for Trump
An election cycle ago, Silicon Valley Republicans had to go into witness protection to support Trump. Now, post-cancel culture and post-‘All-In,’ an influential cohort of billionaires and quasi-billionaires are getting ready to write checks for 45.
Baratunde Thurston
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April 21, 2024
The D.E.I. Blame Game
Are panels really flying off Boeing 737s due to wokeness? An honest look at the recent D.E.I. hysteria.
Theodore Schleifer
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April 17, 2024
The Shanahan Persuasion Campaign
Three weeks ago, R.F.K. Jr. chose the well-connected (and very wealthy) but largely unknown Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Now, top Democratic donors and operatives are debating whether to use their friends in Silicon Valley to get oppo on her—or ask them to pitch her on an “off-ramp.”
Eriq Gardner
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April 15, 2024
Billionaire Boies Club
The plaintiffs who sued Google aren’t receiving a penny, but the law firms who represented them are looking at a historic billion-dollar bonanza over the company’s “incognito” mode scandal. David Boies, one of the lead attorneys, says more 10-figure paydays are coming.
Theodore Schleifer
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April 9, 2024
Tim Scott’s V.P. Edge & Trump’s Big Money Push
News and murmurs from the Mar-a-Lago money circuit: Larry Ellison’s involvement in the Trump veepstakes, John Paulson’s billionaire donor bash, and the anti-Biden progressive group trying to get serious.
Baratunde Thurston
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April 7, 2024
Altered Carbon
An urgent dispatch from the 35th annual Bioneers conference, where the scientific community underscored a series of novel, and deceptively simple, frameworks for reorienting our societies to address our carbon problem.
Theodore Schleifer
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April 3, 2024
Barbarians at the Gates
The hottest commodity in the world of megadonors is Rory Gates, the spotlight-averse, socially awkward 24-year-old scion of Bill and Melinda—an overnight sensation among Democratic donor-hustlers desperate for the next big thing.