Berber Jin
@berber_jin1
reporter covering silicon valley
OpenAI and SoftBank pledged to spend $100 billion "immediately" when they announced Stargate with Trump in January. Six months later, they're just hoping to build a single small data center by the end of the year. Great scoop by @eliotwb and @berber_jin1: wsj.com/tech/ai/softba…
In the 5 months since President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, Amazon quietly raised prices on low-cost products such as deodorant, protein shakes and pet care items, a WSJ analysis of nearly 2,500 items found. wsj.com/business/retai…
California donors cool on Kamala Harris: ‘No one is incredibly pumped.’ politico.com/news/2025/06/2…
Here is an early look at the front page of The Wall Street Journal on.wsj.com/4m499ou
at the end of the day, all ai companies become the same…
SCOOP: Leaked memo from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlines the startup's plans to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. “Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”
Scoop: OpenAI's $500 billion Stargate project with SoftBank is off to a rocky start. the two sides have been at odds over details of the partnership and are now aiming to build just one small data center by the end of the year w/ @eliotwb wsj.com/tech/ai/softba…
Who are the best pre-seed / seed angel investors every founder should want on their cap table these days?
from our weekend read on the AI talent wars: wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-a…
Holy moly, Mark Zucker asked Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta, reportedly offering up to $1 billion dollars via WSJ
We have the definitive story on Dan Gross leaving SSI for Meta, the Windsurf saga, and a secret conversation between Zuckerberg and OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen—all in our epic weekend read about the AI talent wars w/ @keachhagey @bzcohen wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-a…
“The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the…
The White House's latest effort to go after DEI is an attack on "woke AI"—Trump is expected to ban biased AI companies from working with the government in an executive order. W/ @AnnieLinskey: wsj.com/tech/ai/white-…
Scoop - SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion into Elon Musk's xAI -- extending a long history of Musk using his space company to prop up his other businesses wsj.com/tech/spacex-to…
SCOOP on the tender offer for LPs in Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross's NFDG funds. Meta is offering to buy up to 49% of the holdings at face value - quite unusual at a time when secondaries are done at steep discounts. Meta won't have info rights in portcos wsj.com/articles/meta-…
NEW — Inside the incredible narrowing of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s philanthropy. — Mark has regularly smack-talked his own philanthropy’s work. — Longtime friends have been stunned by recent moves. — They even deleted lines from the Letter to Max, their daughter.
AI researchers across Silicon Valley are buzzing about "The List," a compilation of the most talented minds in AI that Zuckerberg has spent months putting together. Our deep dive into the madhouse world of AI recruiting, w/ @bzcohen @MeghanBobrowsky wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-r…
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