Articles from www.wsj.com

Articles from www.wsj.com

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

US drone makers are wary of working with Taiwanese companies, fearing China's retaliation and being caught in a crossfire if US-China tensions rise under Trump (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-21 Trump China Taiwan Drone

A look at UK hedge fund Man Group's ArcticDB, an open-source tool used internally and by customers like Bloomberg to analyze daily stock trading data and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-20

A profile of Sulinna Ong, Spotify's head of editorial, whose team curates thousands of playlists and discovers new artists to complement Spotify's algorithms (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-20 Algorithm Spotify

A profile of smart ring maker Oura, which was founded in 2013 in Oulu, Finland and has grown to a $5.2B company by focusing on overall health than fitness alone (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-19 Finland

A group of 18 former European heads of state call on the EC to break up Google's advertising tech business, claiming it erodes Europe's media landscape (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-18 Europe Google

Sources: Meta's Community Notes won't apply to paid ads, but will be enabled for organic content, which includes brands' and influencers' unpromoted posts (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-17

Earnest Analytics: ~60% of paid Gemini users kept their subscriptions six months after signing up, better than Perplexity but lagging behind ChatGPT and Claude (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-17

Sources: Zuckerberg met with Trump on Friday, in part to mediate a 2021 lawsuit Trump brought against Meta over his account suspension after the Jan. 6 riot (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-14 Trump Zuckerberg

A look at Troodi, a mental health chatbot built by AI startup Elomia Health for Troomi's child-focused phones, with thousands of teen users across the US (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-14 Startup AI chatbot

Donald Trump Jr. is joining prediction-market startup Kalshi as a strategic adviser; CFTC called Kalshi “an online casino” in a December filing (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-14 Trump Startup CFTC

Blackstone invests $300M in DDN, which helps organizations store and analyze large amounts of data more efficiently for AI and HPC, at a $5B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-9 AI

AMD invests $20M in drug-discovery company Absci, which will move toward greater use of AMD's GPUs; Absci has 470+ AI chips, most of which are from Nvidia (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-9 AI Nvidia AMD

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg demanded a review at Meta after his 2023 knee surgery post on Facebook initially got anemic attention; Meta downplays the significance (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-8 Facebook Zuckerberg

Sources: Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2B in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners that would value it at $60B (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-8

Uber and Lyft are embracing autonomous vehicle operators like Waymo, May Mobility, and others, after abandoning their own self-driving car programs (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-6 Uber Autonomous Car

A look at Chinese hackers' attacks on US infrastructure and telecoms; sources: Charter, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream networks were also breached (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-6 China

Influencer marketing company Later acquires Mavely, which pays commissions to social-media creators for the sales they generate, for $250M in cash and stock (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-4

Many advertisers on TikTok say they will shift ad dollars if and when a US ban actually takes effect, as the yearslong saga has dulled any real sense of urgency (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-3 Ban

As Beijing pushes for self-sufficiency in the $80B+ per year car chip business, sources say the use of homemade chips in Chinese cars has risen to around 15% (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-1 China

Philippine investigators say Alice Guo, ex-mayor of the Bamban town, owned the land on which a pig butchering scam center was built, housing ~3,000 scammers (www.wsj.com)
2024-12-30 Real Estate Philippines

Some residents and lawmakers worry that the pace of Atlanta metro's data center growth, projected to hit 4,000+ MW by 2028, up 30x since 2012, has gone too far (www.wsj.com)
2024-12-30

Law enforcement officials worldwide say Chinese mafia boss Wan Kuok-koi, aka Broken Tooth, has played a central role in the emergence of pig butchering scams (www.wsj.com)
2024-12-30 China

Previous Page Next Page