Verdict is in: Margot has found me GUILTY of not taking her to doggie daycare today on ALL counts. An appeal is anticipated.

huge moment for binge TV, start the casting now

If you miss sharing the Trump verdict here you still have a day or 2 to post it to Threads

big moment for the future of the ‘American Crime Story’ franchise coming up

Interesting news in AI world: OpenAI has quietly relaunched its robotics division and is actively hiring research engineers for it.

Scoop by my @forbes colleagues Kenrick Cai and sarah emerson, who found job listings and confirmed with sources.
forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

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OpenAI is formally resurrecting its robotics team after abandoning efforts to build general purpose robots in 2020.

Its new team has been around for ~2 months and is currently hiring research engineers.

From me and Kenrick Cai:
forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

It should be standard practice for CEOs and founders to share a list of reporter names they know with any new PR firm they hire. Nothing like getting invited to an intro meeting with someone you've texted for a decade-plus 😂

New from me for Forbes: How Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger became a billionaire -- and it's not from acting.

Read my latest, which is the result of months of reporting.
forbes.com/sites/jemimamc…

Huh. I wonder where I read SO many of these details 5-6 months ago. Perhaps it was an Emily Baker-White scoop. I forget because there are so many of them. forbes.com/sites/emilybak…

“There's an underlying current of people just being fed up with Google. But it feels impossible. The monopoly is very entrenched,” Richard Socher spoke to me about Google's stronghold as a search giant even after its AI suggested adding glue to pizza. forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

'I don't believe you own the brand unless you own the land' @fawnweaver

forbes.com/sites/chloesor…

Just heard from a web3 founder whose PR agency claimed that they'd secured a story with me, but that it had been delayed indefinitely. I've never responded to this firm and don't even cover web3. Beware scammers, folks!

consider the lobster tails

checking in on my favorite bot-free platform

Caught red-handed tweeting our latest @forbestech scoop from the back of the boat 😂

Scoop:

Grafana Labs, no. 18 on #Cloud100 , is in talks to raise at a $6 billion valuation.

That would be a flat valuation. But validating a price secured amid the VC bubble in 2022 can be considered a sign of strength, sources tell Alex Konrad and me:

forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

Scoop: cloud startup Grafana Labs is raising as much as $400M in a new funding round that maintains its $6B valuation.

Lightspeed and GIC are expected to lead. The inside round comes as Grafana’s ARR has reached ~$250M.

By Kenrick Cai and me @forbes:
forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

everyone is talking about Google’s AI search results! great job, team

[half-chewed rocks and glue pizza explodes out of my mouth]