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Talk about an epic decision. Epic Games scored a huge victory in court on Monday, when the judge overseeing Epic’s antitrust case against Google essentially shattered the company’s Android app store monopoly.

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Google has been racing to catch up with OpenAI in AI, but its latest conversational AI model, Gemini, seems to be falling short for developers. Despite improvements, developers report that using Gemini is far more complicated and time-consuming than using OpenAI. Greetings, Tesla is once again pushing the envelope with its plans for four new in-house batteries, including one designed specifically for its upcoming Robotaxi. This ambitious effort, set for 2026, could reshape its EV lineup and give Tesla more flexibility in how it designs and powers i...

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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter: • The Big Read: Why women in tech are sounding an alarm • Power and Influence: The tangled web behind the VC who wants to be mayor

It looks like Amazon has finally realized most people go to grocery and convenience stores to browse and shop—not to be wowed by technology. Case in point: Amazon is closing more of its futuristic cashierless convenience shops and launching mini Whole Foods stores that are comparatively low tech.

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On the public markets, the idea of companies that are burning cash also spending money on stock buybacks is a giant no-no. Yet for some reason, private tech investors are willing to give startups a pass for doing the same thing. Exhibit A is OpenAI, which we reported wants to use some of the $6.6 billion in cash it raised in its recent fundraising to buy shares from employees.

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Sam Altman should organize a celebration dinner for the men behind the largest venture capital funding round ever. I’d love to overhear SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son give advice to Thrive’s Joshua Kushner on how to avoid giving too much money to charismatic tech founders. Imagine seeing Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella fight over the dinner check to thank Altman for creating the product that boosted their own companies’ fortunes. Tiger Global Management’s Chase Coleman and Altimeter Capital’s Brad Gerstner could also swap war stories over the last, pre–artificial intelligence startup bubble.

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Snap likes to cast its Snapchat app as “an antidote to social media.” Unlike its rival social media apps, Snapchat was “designed to be safe” for kids, the company claims. But designing something to be safe and actually making it safe aren’t the same things.

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If you’re like me, you’re getting political fundraising text messages roughly every 15 minutes these days. But political candidates aren’t the only people raising money aggressively right now. There are also AI startup executives, most obviously the folks at OpenAI. Today we scooped the news that SoftBank is putting $500 million into OpenAI, which is expected to raise $6.5 billion at a $150 billion valuation.

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Google has been racing to catch up with OpenAI in AI, but its latest conversational AI model, Gemini, seems to be falling short for developers. Despite improvements, developers report that using Gemini is far more complicated and time-consuming than using OpenAI. Greetings, This week, Stephanie Palazzolo, Erin Woo, and Amir Efrati took a deep dive into the leadership turnover at OpenAI, one of the most influential AI companies today. Their piece, Behind OpenAI’s Staff Churn: Turf Wars, Burnout, Compensation Demands, reveals the internal struggles th...

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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter: •The Big Read: How YouTuber Mark Rober got inside the heads of Silicon Valley families. • The Top 5: The best trails to use e-bikes to get out of your cars and smell Mother Nature.

Mark Zuckerberg has become a watch nerd. In his appearance at Connect on Wednesday, he was flashing a timepiece identified by Redditors as this one costing tens of thousands of dollars, at least the third such ultrapricey watch he has sported lately. It’s all part of a recent style makeover that also includes gold chains and loud shirts. It’s smart: The watches, in particular, set Zuckerberg apart from his counterparts at Apple, who invariably wear more utilitarian Apple Watches while in public.

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