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New on Elizabeth Holmes' partner Billy Evans’ blood testing startup: its former CTO and a key inventor on its patents, has left. Somebody who spoke with Billy says he refers to the company as “Theranos 2.0”, a label the company has rejected. forbes.com/sites/annatong/20…
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"They are." Watch Elizabeth Holmes' lie to Forbes about Theranos back in 2015, before the company imploded and she was sentenced to 11 years for wire fraud, and a decade before Nathan Fielder's "You Can See Everything." forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2…
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Exclusive - Satellite startup Xona has raised $250 million at a $2.45 billion valuation to build a commercial alternative to GPS. Leading the round: early SpaceX backer Steve Jurvetson’s Future Ventures. My latest for @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/monicahunte…
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NEW @Forbes: What's one thing Republicans and Democrats can agree on? Consolidation in the playground equipment market, it seems. The FTC and 12 state AGs are teaming up to block a proposed roll up from the PE firm run by Pistons billionaire owner Tom Gores. forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2…
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Iain Martin@_IainMartinOct 19
Forbes revealed earlier this month that TikTok quietly gutted its rules to police advertisers last year. That has opened the door to a black market on the social network for advertisers to hawk fake peptides, knock off luxury goods, street drugs and now even counterfeit money
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Musk’s pledges to give every American child a SpaceX share. But will he really go through with it? Don't hold your breath. As @DurotMatthew writes. . .
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New: Charlesbank Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, is investing in a newly formed services business supporting Wood Smith Henning & Berman, a Los Angeles-headquartered civil litigation defense firm, marking the buyout industry’s latest foray into the fee-rich legal sector. forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2…
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Scoop: Sergey Brin registered to vote in Nevada in December amid the frenzy over the CA billionaire tax, according to public records obtained by Forbes, where he lists his party affiliation as “nonpartisan.” w/ @DurotMatthew forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2…
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New: AI is coming for chemistry. Scientists at manufacturing giants like Kenvue, Henkel and Clorox use Albert Invent’s AI tools to track and design experiments. @Albert_Invent has raised $55 million in funding led by TCV. Latest in The Prompt: forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/…
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In the latest edition of my weekly newsletter, the Prototype, I look at a GAO report showing the federal government basically hasn't even started preparing for quantum computers, what OpenAI's papers last week mean for the field of mathematics, and more. forbes.com/sites/the-prototy…
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I chatted with OpenAI head of chips Richard Ho, who led the development of its Jalapeno chip. He told me about choosing Broadcom as a partner over Nvidia and AMD, “competing among friends” with Nvidia, and Sam Altman urging the industry to build more fabs. forbes.com/sites/richardniev…
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Iain Martin@_IainMartinOct 9
Ukraine’s Drone Makers Now Come With A Silicon Valley Price Tag forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/…
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Exclusive: @vkhosla has lead a $50 million seed round into Sabi, an AI startup building a mind-reading baseball cap that will let people interact with agents through their thoughts. “Thought-to-computer input is a sexy idea,” Khosla tells Forbes. forbes.com/sites/rashishriva…
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SCOOP: Nancy Pelosi is Congress' top investor in Data Centers—and it's not close—according to Forbes reporter @kylekhanmullins
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Brett Adcock is one of humanoid robotics’ biggest hype men. @Figure_robot is valued at $39B; @Forbes says he's worth $23.4B. Nearly two years ago, he said he saw a path to 100,000 robots across two customers in four years. How far has Figure gotten? Our profile 🤖: forbes.com/sites/annatong/20…
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Iain Martin@_IainMartinOct 7
That change comes as TikTok has been downsizing teams focused on advertiser policy and response, including layoffs in Brazil and Texas, while reposting some roles in San Jose with Mandarin fluency requirements.
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NEW: Last fall, executives at TikTok slashed the number of violations for which a TikTok advertiser could be immediately banned by more than half, from 37 down to 13, according to policy documents and four TikTok sources. That opened the floodgates to a surge in scams.
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