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culture
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What a Brazilian Steakhouse Says About the Tech Economy
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Jon Steinberg
· Sept. 23, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.One of my favorite tech memes is the “We’re so back” post, the kind that pokes fun at the industry returning to the good old days of expensive perks and wine-soaked dinners.I had a real-life “We’re so back” moment this week when I attended a bacchanalian feast thrown by Bain Capital Ventures at Fogo de Chão in...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.One of my favorite tech memes is the “We’re so back” post, the...
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culture
space
Meet the Leaders of the Austin Tech Brat Pack
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Jon Steinberg
· Sept. 16, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It’s been another week of all-things Elon Musk, courtesy of Walter Isaacson’s book drop, an appearance in Washington for AI discussions with lawmakers and his opining on the inevitability of a future Chinese invasion of Taiwan at the All-In Summit. The illustration designer Clark Miller created for Adam Lashinsky’s...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It’s been another week of all-things Elon Musk, courtesy of Walter...
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culture
venture capital
'If Hell Is a Party Like This...'
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Jon Steinberg
· Sept. 9, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.“The playa doesn’t give you what you want. It gives you what you need.” I’ve been hearing that old Burning Man saw around these parts since the early 2000s—most recently by a participant in this weekend’s cover story, The Instant Oral History of ‘Trench Foot Burning Man.’ But never has the truism seemed more true...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.“The playa doesn’t give you what you want. It gives you what you...
The Botched Reveal of California Forever
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Jon Steinberg
· Sept. 2, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
The Weekend
asia
policy
The Botched Reveal of California Forever
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Jon Steinberg
· Sept. 2, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.This week, we’re publishing stories from near (a testosterone party in San Francisco) and far (Jessica's four-day reporting junket in China). But there’s another story we’re tracking that is geographically close to home and psychologically close to Never Never Land. I’m talking about the dream city of California...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.This week, we’re publishing stories from near (a testosterone party...
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Tech Leaders Spend How Much(?!) on Their Bodies?
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Jon Steinberg
· Aug. 26, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It’s Annie here, stealing this week’s newsletter opener from Jon (don’t worry, he knows). I wanted to properly introduce The Information Weekend’s first ever Brain-Body Investment Survey, which we’ve been working on over the past month. In my nearly two years at The Information, I’ve taken special interest in...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It’s Annie here, stealing this week’s newsletter opener from Jon (don...
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entertainment
ai
Stars Learn to Love Their AI Doppelgängers
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Jon Steinberg
· Aug. 19, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.There’s been a lot of bed-wetting down in Southern California this summer about the dangers of the artificial intelligence boom. Maybe bed-wetting isn’t fair: The Hollywood actors who are striking, in part, over how their AI-generated likenesses will be scanned, stored and monetized, have valid concerns. And they...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.There’s been a lot of bed-wetting down in Southern California this...
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google
culture
Evangelists of Two Different Silicon Valleys
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Jon Steinberg
· Aug. 12, 2023 7:00 AM PDT ·
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Heads up, Weekenders: The Information is asking subscribers how much time and money they spend on their various fitness and wellness routines. Please fill out our completely anonymous Brain-Body Investment survey (done in five minutes, tops), and we'll share the results soon. Thanks for participating! Hi, welcome to your Weekend....
Heads up, Weekenders: The Information is asking subscribers how much time and money they spend on...
The Superconductor of the Summer
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Jon Steinberg
· Aug. 5, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
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startups
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The Superconductor of the Summer
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Jon Steinberg
· Aug. 5, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Culturally, it’s been a very Barbie-Taylor-Tom (Cruise) summer. A season of mega-popular, mega-lucrative, four-quadrant entertainments that have returned us, however briefly, to the pre-internet days of the monoculture. So imagine my surprise when the online discourse shifted abruptly this week to the very niche...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Culturally, it’s been a very Barbie-Taylor-Tom (Cruise) summer. A...
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startups
culture
Blind Loyalty to an Anonymous Chat App
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Jon Steinberg
· July 29, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.What’s that I hear? It’s the sound of thousands of techies in the Bay Area calling in favors and taking out second mortgages to score tickets to Taylor Swift’s concert at Levi’s Stadium last night and tonight in Santa Clara. If you succeeded, congratulations! Speaking of Taylor, I stumbled across a fascinating...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.What’s that I hear? It’s the sound of thousands of techies in the Bay...
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startups
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A Stripe Co-Founder’s Billionaire Flex
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Jon Steinberg
· July 22, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.You’re likely not intimately familiar with the world of John Collison, and that is mostly by design. Unlike other millennial tech titans like Sam Altman, Brian Chesky and Brian Armstrong, relatively little has been written about Collison, the intensely private, Irish-born co-founder of the $50 billion payments...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.You’re likely not intimately familiar with the world of John...
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google
culture
Tech's Proudest Workforce No Longer
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Jon Steinberg
· July 15, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.The problems that have afflicted Google over the past 12 months are not unique to the search giant or its parent company Alphabet. The entire tech industry has been in correction mode after the hyper-growth years of 2020-2021, with more than 218,000 jobs slashed thus far in 2023, according to Layoffs.fyi.But Google’s...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.The problems that have afflicted Google over the past 12 months are...
An AI Company and Its Fanatical Following
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Jon Steinberg
· July 8, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
The Weekend
startups
culture
An AI Company and Its Fanatical Following
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Jon Steinberg
· July 8, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Since we launched our Weekend section in November 2021, we’ve been near-obsessive chroniclers of the generative AI boom. Our very first cover story, written by yours truly, was on Sam Altman and his optimistic vision for OpenAI. We followed that up with reports on how AI image generators would disrupt the...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Since we launched our Weekend section in November 2021, we’ve been...
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startups
ai
A Mogul Smackdown We Could Get Behind
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Jon Steinberg
· July 1, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It should be pretty clear by now what a lame idea the whole Mark Zuckerberg vs. Elon Musk cage match was. The spectacle of two middle-aged men working out their self-esteem issues by beating on each other was not worthy of their companies—or our time. But a pitch from the producers of the Discovery show “BattleBots”...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It should be pretty clear by now what a lame idea the whole Mark...
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culture
entertainment
Adobe Flies Towards Generative AI
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Jon Steinberg
· June 24, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.For about 11 months after OpenAI released its text-to-image generator Dall-E 2 in April 2022, many of us wondered when Adobe would come to market with a rival product, which could be neatly integrated into design programs like Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere. The wait felt long, especially considering how...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.For about 11 months after OpenAI released its text-to-image generator...
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amazon
culture
Inside the CEO Switch at Twitch
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Jon Steinberg
· June 17, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.On Wednesday night, while editing Annie’s thoroughly delightful cover story on new Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, I hopped over to Clancy’s Twitch page, just to see if he was livestreaming. To my surprise and delight, he was.Almost two hours into a four-and-a-half hour jam session and open-mic night, the CEO sat facing...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.On Wednesday night, while editing Annie’s thoroughly delightful cover...
Why We Must Love A Moonshot
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Jon Steinberg
· June 10, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
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culture
space
Why We Must Love A Moonshot
By
Jon Steinberg
· June 10, 2023 7:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Jon, our intrepid Weekender in Chief, is out. I’m happily subbing for him. Indeed, I feel particularly energized this week after spotting something I haven’t seen in what feels like for-ev-er: an actually audacious piece of technology—that might never take off. I’m talking, of course, about Apple’s newly debuted...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Jon, our intrepid Weekender in Chief, is out. I’m happily subbing for...
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culture
ai
Live from SF, It’s Tech Week
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Jon Steinberg
· June 3, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It was the boom-iest of times, it was the doom-iest of times. At least that’s how it feels right now in Dickensian San Francisco, where AI companies are setting up shop on every avenue, while fentanyl dealers are hanging out in every alley. I joke—but seriously, it’s wild out here. No fewer than 17 of the 35 startups...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It was the boom-iest of times, it was the doom-iest of times. At...
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e-commerce
ai
The Short Seller Who Told Us So
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Jon Steinberg
· May 27, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Wall Street short sellers are not everyone’s cup of tea. That goes double for a lifelong contrarian like Marc Cohodes, who sees himself as an anti-fraud vigilante fighting for the little guys—while also being a loudmouth bully on Twitter. Nobody knows this better than veteran finance journalist Michelle Celarier,...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Wall Street short sellers are not everyone’s cup of tea. That goes...
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startups
culture
The Great Pickleball Gold Rush
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Jon Steinberg
· May 20, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Not everyone can be Josh Harris, the private equity mogul who just dropped $6 billion to purchase the NFL’s Washington Commanders. Most people who want a piece of a pro sports franchise have to start a little lower. Enter pickleball. A sport you probably hadn’t heard of before it became a thing around five...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Not everyone can be Josh Harris, the private equity mogul who just...
The Hero’s Journey of Marissa Mayer
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Jon Steinberg
· May 13, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
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startups
culture
The Hero’s Journey of Marissa Mayer
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Jon Steinberg
· May 13, 2023 6:00 AM PDT
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Marissa Mayer has been a mainstay of tech journalism for almost two decades, ever since she was anointed the glamorous geek goddess of Google back in its “don’t be evil” days. She’s had quite a ride since then, becoming Yahoo CEO in 2012, bumping along in the role for five acquisition-heavy years, then selling the...
Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Marissa Mayer has been a mainstay of tech journalism for almost two...
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