This year has seen three fledgling AI firms swallowed up by Big Tech companies. As the Financial Times (FT) notes in a report Wednesday (Aug. 14), it is a pattern that threatens to leave venture capitalists (VCs) on the outside looking in at the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. AI companies Adept, Character.AI and Inflection had, combined, raised
Several ETFs at Wood’s firm, ARK Invest, bought a variety of tech stocks after they fell alongside a broader market drop. ARK Invest, which has $6.7 billion in assets under management, is an influential firm whose funds have fallen on hard times. Reports earlier this year showed investors pulled a total of $2.2 billion from
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: For a brief and marvelous time, the latest and greatest consumer services the tech economy had to offer came on the cheap, with generous subsidies from the companies themselves. Jeff Bezos picked up