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Amazon has shrunk its Amazon Go store portfolio by ~50% since early 2023 to 16 stores in four US states, as its efforts to compete in physical retail falter (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-6 Amazon Retail

Sources: OpenAI is expected to air its first TV ad during Sunday's Super Bowl; MediaRadar: AI companies spent $332M on ads in 2024, over double their 2023 spend (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-6 AI

Email: Google is eliminating its goal of hiring more employees from historically underrepresented groups and reviewing some DEI programs (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-6 Google

Sources: banks sold $5.5B in debt borrowed by X at $0.97 on the dollar, following strong investor demand; they had planned to sell ~$3B at ~$0.95 on the dollar (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-6

AWS aims to use “automated reasoning”, which uses mathematical logic to encode knowledge in AI systems in a structured way, to prevent AI models' hallucinations (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-6 AI

LG CNS, an IT services affiliate of LG, made a weak debut in South Korea, falling ~10% to ~$38.44, cutting its market cap to $3.72B from $4.13B during the day (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-5 Korea

Robinhood withdraws its plans to offer betting contracts on the Super Bowl, in partnership with online prediction market Kalshi, after pushback from the CFTC (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-5 CFTC

Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to €4.2B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 675M, subscribers up 11% YoY to 263M, and €1.14B in 2024 net income, vs. a €532M loss in 2023 (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-4 4Q Spotify

A look at Future You, an AI-based research tool that lets users interact with a virtual older self and is currently being used by 60,000 people from 190 nations (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-3 AI

DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much US companies should share about their AI breakthroughs, many of which have been detailed in scientific papers (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-1 AI

When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said “we are discussing” and “it's also not our current highest priority” (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-1

Sources: Meta is discussing moving its incorporation from Delaware to Texas or another state, following similar moves by Elon Musk (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-1 Elon Musk Texas

SoftBank, which sources say is in talks to invest $15B-$25B in OpenAI and $18B in Stargate, could borrow against its $140B+ Arm stake to fund the investments (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-31

Sources: Amazon is ramping up ad spending on X, as companies re-evaluate their stances in a changing political climate; source: Apple considers a return to X (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-31 Amazon Apple Climate

Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40B at a $340B valuation; the startup was last valued at $157B in October, when it raised $6.6B (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-31 Startup

Sources: Trump signs an agreement calling for Meta to pay ~$25M to settle a 2021 lawsuit he brought after Meta suspended his accounts after the January 6 riot (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-30 Trump

US officials and Google researchers: China, Iran, and 18+ others are using AI, including Gemini, to bolster their cyberattacks against US and global targets (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-29 China Google AI Iran

A profile of DeepSeek creator Liang Wenfeng, a math geek who founded hedge fund High-Flyer in 2015 and had to apologize to investors about returns in 2021 (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-29 Mathematics

Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-28 Startup AI

A look at China's booming crypto market, with Chinese traders using VPNs, overseas shell companies, and peer-to-peer networks to circumvent China's crackdown (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-27 China

Betting data from Illinois, New Jersey, and Colorado shows how parlays are driving revenue growth for FanDuel, DraftKings, and other US sports betting companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-27

Sources: DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng told Chinese Premier Li Qiang in a Jan. 20 meeting that US export controls on advanced chips to China were still a bottleneck (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-26 China

Despite assurances, advertisers worry Meta's tools may not prevent ads from appearing near offensive content as the new content moderation approach takes effect (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-26

Chinese self-driving company WeRide aims to make more inroads overseas in 2025; WeRide operates in nine countries and secured new deals in Switzerland and Japan (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-25 China Japan Switzerland

In email to X staff, Musk says “user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even”; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-25

ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised a $77.5M Series B led by Bessemer and Bain, sources say at a $410M valuation vs. $80M in 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-25

Zuckerberg says Meta is building an AI engineer that will “start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts” and is planning a 2GW+ data center (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-25 AI Zuckerberg

Sources: Trump's aides and Elon Musk became annoyed with Vivek Ramaswamy's outspokenness and some were angered by his H-1B comments, leading to his DOGE ouster (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-23 Trump Elon Musk H1B

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI were arguing over Microsoft's ability to fulfill OpenAI's computing needs, in the months leading up to the Stargate announcement (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-23 Microsoft

China suggests it is willing to work with Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying it would block any forced TikTok sale (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-21 Trump China

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