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...It is the top-of-the-line Gemini Ultra, due out early next year, that carries Google’s main hopes of matching or leapfrogging OpenAI’s GPT-4 in the race to turn generative AI into a more useful everyday...
...After that, the focus will be on getting the Exxon deal over the line....
...Spotify, another streaming pioneer, which makes most of its money from subscriptions, has dropped 49 per cent this year....
...Once money is on the line, the learning always happens faster!”...
...He knew many tech industry pioneers, including HP’s founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore....
...The monologue was provided to the show’s creators by Marc Lasry, a pioneer in the niche world of distressed debt investments....
...Jemima KellyRob thought the idea was promising and he later set up another company on similar lines to BeefChain, called CattleProof....
...Why take a flier when companies with at least $150bn of annual revenue are reporting 20-30 per cent top-line growth?...
...Public buyouts of private equity-backed companies was a theme during the quarter, led by Pioneer Natural Resources’s $6.4bn acquisition of DoublePoint Energy, and including Southwestern Energy’s $3bn deal...
...This cleared the private equity pioneer of wrongdoing....
...“It was along the lines of: Is it more important to get on well with your team or to challenge them?...
...Embedding transistors in silicon wafers has never been as glamorous as rolling automobiles off an assembly line. Yet Intel’s semiconductors may be America’s greatest manufacturing accomplishment....
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@ft.com SolarWinds: private equity’s well-timed windfall Most successful investors know that timing is everything....
...Though he himself helped spark China’s casino boom, the gambling pioneer’s casinos were notably absent from the industry’s biggest windfall in recent history: sports betting....
...An energy group’s enduring quest for black gold ExxonMobil has never been one to toe the line....
Withdrawal from front line is emblematic of dismal spell for once-imperious macro funds
...It's destined for doctors and nurses in Paris hospitals on the front line of the battle against coronavirus....
...In other news, SoftBank-backed Yahoo Japan and messaging app Line have agreed to merge in a $30bn deal after a long courtship....
...Cristina Valencia is chief executive of Health Pioneers LLC. William R Rhodes is president and chief executive of William R. Rhodes Global Advisors and author of “Banker to the World”....
...In contrast, Google’s internal AI team, Google Brain, has had a significant impact on the company’s bottom line, he said....
...If that phrase shades into “pricing power”, LSE bulls may have unwittingly encouraged regulators to take a tough line. A rival bid for Refinitiv DD thinks this is unlikely....
...Fat cat bankers were in the public firing line, and when a $100m payday for Mr Hall was reported, it was met with fury....
...Ebay, founded a year before Amazon, was an ecommerce pioneer as an auction site for buying and selling memorabilia and used items....
...But they will have to stay on the right side of the creepiness line. richard.waters@ft.com...
...It was a throwaway line in an early 2009 speech from the newly inaugurated President Barack Obama....
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