Press list I love being on that has nothing to do with my beat:

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Notion is, even by Silicon Valley standards, idiosyncratic. CEO Ivan Zhao picks out all the furniture at HQ and for years had a no-shoes policy.

My latest magazine profile looks at Ivan Zhao's big AI bet, which earned Notion a spot on #ForbesAI50 :

forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

New for POLITICO Cantwell is working with House TikTok bill sponsors, Senate Intel Committee leaders and the Bide administration on potential changes to the House TikTok bill put it on strong legal footing, including extending divestment time to 12 months subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

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.
forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

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
forbes.com/sites/richardn…

Congrats to my dear friend and fabulous fellow journo Alexandra Sternlicht!

Read my latest investigation for Forbes: The inside story of how Les Wexner, the Jeffrey Epstein-tarnished billionaire, quietly engineered one of the biggest semiconductor projects in history.

forbes.com/sites/jemimamc…

NEW: Ted Cruz is the subject of yet another watchdog complaint

Nope, this one’s not about his book deals or trying to overturn an election.

with Molly Bohannon for Forbes

forbes.com/sites/zachever…

New for POLITICO - I found more than a dozen House Democrats with TikTok accounts voted for a forced sale of the app. My latest explains why Democratic strategists say Dem lawmakers and campaigns should still stay on the app to reach young voters ahead of the November elections.

NEW: Sam Altman has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit and Stripe made him a billionaire anyway.

Alex Konrad and I sifted through a dozen-plus filings + spoke to at least as many sources to learn about what he’s worth & how he invests:

forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…?

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:

forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

NEW: TikTok rejected ads raising awareness about the hostages abducted on Oct 7. by Hamas in the crucial early weeks of the war—even as a top, beloved employee has family among the kidnapped.

Our look at how, many months later, the company changed course:forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

Post-Oct 7, the top org demanding the hostages' release tried running an ad about Elad Katzir on TikTok.

TikTok rejected the ad of Elad and other hostages.

6 months later, Elad's been confirmed dead.

How TikTok ads have helped shape discourse on the war:forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

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