Finding Shohei extremely relatable........ Tall Japanese, hates looking at bank account, has one friend who's not his dog...

Finally, a tech angle
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AI-powered search engine Perplexity is backed by tech VIPs like Jeff Bezos and counts billionaires like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang among its 15 million users. I spoke to CEO Aravind Srinivas about how the company
became a Silicon Valley darling.
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For #ForbesAI50 , I profiled Ivan Zhao, CEO of Notion, the $10 billion company that has moved ultra fast to adopt AI advances into its own productivity software.

AI, Zhao hopes, is the key to challenging the office suite duopoly of Microsoft/Google:

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Our sixth annual #ForbesAI50 is live!

We got 1,900+ applications to the list, which features the world's most promising AI startups.

This year's honorees represent a new tech economy of businesses emerging to deploy and develop AI apps.

Our full list:

forbes.com/lists/ai50/

New: I spoke to Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen, a longtime Google vet, about what he calls a “reinvention” for his company — going beyond e-signatures and into managing all contracts across a client's business
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What a legend. RIP king

NEW: Internal documents show Microsoft privately pitched using OpenAI's DALL-E image generator to the Department of Defense to help develop battlefield software—months before OpenAI reversed course on working with the military. theintercept.com/2024/04/10/mic…

'But the extent of Wexner’s role in the historic Intel project and his activity in recent years has not been well known, until now.'

Amazing investigation into how Epstein’s main client and business partner has been profiting off the chips and data center industry.

News: CEO Sam Altman has said he holds no shares in OpenAI. Startup bets like Helion, Stripe and Reddit have now made him a billionaire.

Phoebe Liu (she/her) and I poured through filings and spoke to a dozen-plus people for the closest accounting yet, in Forbes:

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heartbreaking stories of damage out of New York this morning

Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse.

Yossi Sariel unmasked as head of Unit 8200 and architect of AI strategy after book written under pen name reveals his Google account, via Harry Davies and Bethan McKernan theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

I spoke to three more women who worked at BlackBerry and shared similar claims about its CEO.

'I felt like I had gone back to the 1980s in tech, where there was truly a culture of misogyny. I thought: I started my career that way and now I’m ending my career that way,' said one.

Jesus, this Wired investigation into the sexual assault of women working at science stations in the Antarctic
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NFL star Tom Brady is just one of the high profile people who live near the Amazon founder’s newest estate.

With Giacomo Tognini for Forbes:

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I spoke to three more women who worked at BlackBerry and shared similar claims about its CEO.

'I felt like I had gone back to the 1980s in tech, where there was truly a culture of misogyny. I thought: I started my career that way and now I’m ending my career that way,' said one.

NEW: BlackBerry's CEO is sued by a former exec for what she alleges was a pattern of sexual harassment, gender discrimination and retaliation.

Before promoting him to CEO, BlackBerry hired lawyers to quietly investigate several women's claims against him.
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I don't have a news reporting job _DMs are open_ so I'll just tweet that three NATO/EU intelligence/security officials confirm this story as 'clearly the case' on background. and they've been tracking/monitoring data sets for months.

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ByteDance is fighting overtime in DC to try to keep the US government from forcing it to sell TikTok — or banning the app entirely.

In the meantime, another of its apps is surging in the US: a homework help aid for school-aged kids.

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It's billionaires day here at Forbes (though isn't it always?): Our 2024 list of every billionaire on the planet is out—a roadmap of who the richest (i.e. most powerful) people are, how they made it and how they're spending it. #ForbesBillionaires forbes.com/billionaires/