Phoebe Liu

My latest for @Forbes is a profile of the grandfather of analytics, SAS' billionaire cofounder Jim Goodnight. He had choice words about the large AI labs, talked about his Hadrosaurus egg from 69 million years ago and discussed his succession plan. (My statistics degree is very happy right now...) forbes.com/sites/phoebeli…

If you're a naturally anxious person, I recommend pursuing a high stress career path where at least you'll be compensated for anxiety you're going to have anyways.

Could a 27-year-old be the answer to America's nuclear power problem? I wrote a long deep dive on @valaratomics for @theinformation that includes fun quotes like this. theinformation.com/articles/trump…

After Cerebras’ long-awaited IPO, CEO Andrew Feldman is now a billionaire worth an estimated $3.4 billion. Check out my story, which involves a secret dance floor and Halloween candy from a Nobel Prize winner. forbes.com/sites/richardn…

Scoop with @annatonger: xAI cofounder Igor Babuschkin is in talks to raise up to $1 billion at an up to $5 billion valuation for a new AI startup, sources tell Forbes. forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

1/ Read the full story here: forbes.com/sites/phoebeli…

My latest for @Forbes is a profile of the grandfather of analytics, SAS' billionaire cofounder Jim Goodnight. He had choice words about the large AI labs, talked about his Hadrosaurus egg from 69 million years ago and discussed his succession plan. (My statistics degree is very happy right now...) forbes.com/sites/phoebeli…

xAI Cofounder Igor Babuschkin In Talks To Raise Up To $1 Billion For A New AI Startup forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

New: I chatted with Alexandr Wang and new Scale CEO Jason Droege about the company post-Meta deal. Scale says revenue last year was just shy of $1B, and expects it to top $1B this year. (But Meta will account for nearly half of annual revenue) forbes.com/sites/richardn…

When @_pheebini and I wrote about @sama's investments 2 years ago, his huge personal checks into Helion and Retro Biosciences baffled peers. Where did that money come from? He's said it was much of his liquid net worth. The stake is now worth $1.65B 👀 forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (@annatonger / Forbes) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

SCOOP: VP JD Vance held a secret call with CEOs of giant AI companies including Elon Musk, Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. Vance expressed concern with the potential of AI systems and impact they could have on local banks + other smaller businesses. It’s an instance of the administration scrambling to decide what to do with AI. Story w/ @AmrithRamkumar + @natalieandrews wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-…

anti-drone startup allen control systems, which makes an autonomous weapons station, is aiming to raise $200 m in new funding at a valuation of $2 b pre $ — a 14x (!!) markup from its last round.

Periodic Labs, which plans to push breakthroughs in physics and chemistry using artificial intelligence, is in talks to raise $500 million at a valuation of $7.5 billion, a nearly sixfold jump in just eight months forbes.com/sites/iainmart…

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SCOOP: The Treasury Department recently sent a letter to Binance demanding the crypto exchange comply with its government-imposed monitoring program. The request comes in the wake of reports that more than $1 billion flowed through Binance to Iran-linked entities

scoop: Anthropic is finalizing its $1.5 billion joint venture with private equity firms the company is set to invest $300 million into the effort w/ @laurenthomas wsj.com/business/deals…

Joel Embiid: "I just have a message for our fans. Last time we played the Knicks, it felt like this was Madison Square Garden east. We're going to need the support. Don't sell your tickets. This is bigger than you. If you need money, I got you" 😂

My latest for @theinformation is a deep-dive on ZaiNar, a $1 B startup that just came out of stealth and claims to have developed the most precise location tracking technology on the planet. An alternative to GPS, it can figure out where any device connected to a network is within 4 inches (that's compared to roughly 20 meters for Google Maps). Inside nine years in anonymity and a technology that could change the world -- and potentially unlock a new wave of user privacy abuses. theinformation.com/articles/secre…

SCOOP: A pro-AI dark money group backed by a powerful super PAC funded by execs tied to Palantir and OpenAI, has been secretly paying influencers to push pro-AI, anti-China propaganda on TikTok and IG.