EP-144 Coatue’s $1b Ai Investment 💰, Ny Times Tech Strike Tensions 🗞️, Amazon’s Ai-powered Streaming Innovation 🎬

AI Briefing Room

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for tuesday, november 5th! dive into today's top tech stories:

• coatue management's ai investment: the hedge fund raises $1 billion from institutional investors to support their flagship fund, actively backing 29 startups including ai firms like glean and scale ai.
• nyt tech guild strike: aravind srinivas, ceo of perplexity, faces backlash for offering support to the new york times during a workers' strike, aiming to manage election coverage traffic without replacing workers.
• amazon's "x-ray recaps": prime video introduces a generative ai feature offering spoiler-free summaries of episodes and seasons, initially on fire tv with amazon mgm studios originals.
• big tech's ai energy solutions: companies like microsoft, google, and amazon explore nuclear energy, liquid cooling technologies, and quantum computing to address ai's growing energy demands.
• vanguard's valuation cut for ola: the indian ride-share leader's valuation slashed to $2 billion from a peak of $7.3 billion amidst intense market competition.

stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!