Pinterest, Inc.

This is the first time RBC analysts have seen a noticeable impact of duties on digital advertising, Pinterest's main source of revenue

Pinterest has lost a fifth of its value. Why didn't audience growth make the market happy?

In mid-October, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman blew up the Internet (again) by promising to make ChatGPT more <a href="https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128?s=46">human</a> in communication this year. So human, in fact, that adult users will be able to flirt with it and have erotic conversations with it if they want to. Given that erotica and porn have always been the shortest route to monetizing content on the internet, it begs the question: is this really a necessary improvement for a chatbot or just an attempt to make a quick buck for a loss-making company that has <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/cto-kopaet-glava-openai-sem-al-tman-ekonomiceskij-rov-ili-mogilu">committed</a> over $1 trillion?

Freedom and money: how AI is going to use erotic content

As communication technologies have evolved, wars over access to information have intensified around the globe, and the emergence of high-speed satellite Internet has brought this struggle to a new height in every sense. The constellation of low-orbit Starlink satellites created by Elon Musk's SpaceX company has suddenly become not just a convenient service, but a tool of geopolitics. The richest man on the planet is not shy about using it.

Space Carrot and Stick: How Satellite Internet Became a Political Weapon

Mary Meeker, a famous technology analyst and venture capitalist, predicted a brilliant future for a new technology - the Internet - in the mid-90s. And, as we can now see, she was right. But there is a nuance: before coming to prosperity, the market of Internet companies in 2000 experienced the "dot-com crash", on which investors lost trillions of dollars. Now, after a multi-year hiatus, Meeker has published a detailed <a href="https://www.bondcap.com/report/tai/">report</a> on her view of the artificial intelligence technology market. From her point of view, AI technologies are developing at an "unprecedented pace" and their prospects are bright. It makes you wonder about analogies: are we not witnessing the blossoming of a new technological "bubble"?