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White House’s TikTok Proposal Raises Big Questions

By Kaya Yurieff · Apr 3, 2025 1:03pm PDT

What a wild 24 hours it’s been! Everyone and their mother, including Amazon, AppLovin and the founder of OnlyFans, threw their hat in the ring at the last minute to try to acquire TikTok’s U.S. assets.And as we first scooped on Wednesday, the White House is finalizing its proposal for a deal aimed at keeping TikTok alive in the U.S. On Thursday... What a wild 24 hours it’s been! Everyone and their mother, including Amazon, AppLovin and the...

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Roomba Creator Says Humanoid Robots Are Overhyped

By Rocket Drew · Apr 3, 2025 7:46am PDT · 3 comments

It’s not every day you hear a robotics founder trying to cool the hype surrounding their industry, but Rodney Brooks has seen it all before. Speaking at a conference Tuesday hosted by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, Brooks, a founder of multiple robotics companies including the one behind Roomba vacuums, showed attendees a slide... It’s not every day you hear a robotics founder trying to cool the hype surrounding their...

Art by Mike Sullivan.

AI Search Is New Arms Race for Retailers

By Ann Gehan and Catherine Perloff · Apr 1, 2025 6:00am PDT · 2 comments

Earlier this year, employees at online diaper seller Coterie noticed customers arriving from an intriguing new source—ChatGPT. Coterie, like most brands, asks its customers how they heard about the company after they make a purchase. The typical answer is word of mouth. But in recent months, some shoppers started crediting their purchase... Earlier this year, employees at online diaper seller Coterie noticed customers arriving from an...

Art by ChatGPT (and Clark Miller)

OpenAI Goes Ghibli, Tech’s Secret Chats

By Abram Brown · Mar 29, 2025 7:00am PDT · 3 comments

Art by ChatGPT (and Clark Miller)

OpenAI Goes Ghibli, Tech’s Secret Chats

By Abram Brown · Mar 29, 2025 7:00am PDT · 3 comments

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: How the startup behind Cursor became the hottest, vibiest thing in AI• The Top 5: The lobbyists Silicon Valley loves to hire • Plus, our Recommendations: The indentured servants who excel at scams; an Anxious Generation villain; and the existential link between Mel Brooks and Leonard... Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: How the startup behind Cursor became the...

Art by Clark Miller

The Lobbyists Silicon Valley Loves to Hire

By Julia Black · Mar 29, 2025 6:00am PDT

In the second Donald Trump era, the separation between tech and politics appears vanishingly small. “Eight years ago, you’d never see a Tim Cook or Elon Musk in Mar-a-Lago. Now, you see them all the time,” said Brian Ballard, founder of Ballard Partners and one of the top lobbyists recommended to us by industry insiders. Federal lobbying... In the second Donald Trump era, the separation between tech and politics appears vanishingly...

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CoreWeave’s Shaky IPO Signal

By Cory Weinberg · Mar 27, 2025 5:00pm PDT · 1 comment

CoreWeave is the first company trying to test Wall Street’s appetite for a new, tasty artificial intelligence offering. And investors don’t seem to like what they’re being served.The company priced its initial public offering tonight at $40 a share, putting a roughly $23 billion valuation on CoreWeave, according to CNBC. That’s way down from the... CoreWeave is the first company trying to test Wall Street’s appetite for a new, tasty artificial...

Art by Mike Sullivan

OpenAI’s ‘Agents’ Pose Risks to DoorDash, Other Consumer Apps

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Amir Efrati · Mar 19, 2025 10:51am PDT · 6 comments

Before OpenAI in January launched Operator, its artificial intelligence that uses the web to plan trips, compile reports and shop online for people, it asked DoorDash to be an official “launch partner” for the new product. DoorDash agreed—but it had a question. In a meeting last fall between the companies, a DoorDash executive asked OpenAI... Before OpenAI in January launched Operator, its artificial intelligence that uses the web to plan...

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Top Developers Want Nvidia Blackwell Chips. Everyone Else, Not So Much

By Anissa Gardizy · Mar 19, 2025 7:00am PDT · 1 comment

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, at the Nvidia GTC. Photo by Getty

Top Developers Want Nvidia Blackwell Chips. Everyone Else, Not So Much

By Anissa Gardizy · Mar 19, 2025 7:00am PDT · 1 comment

Jensen Huang turned Nvidia into the third most valuable company in the world by designing chips that were way ahead of their time. But Huang’s remarks on Tuesday suggest he’s pulling far ahead of some customers, and the growing gap between what he’s selling and what they’re buying could spell trouble.In his keynote speech at the GTC developer... Jensen Huang turned Nvidia into the third most valuable company in the world by designing chips...

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Why Google Wanted Wiz So Badly

By Aaron Holmes · Mar 18, 2025 5:00pm PDT

If at first you don’t succeed, try offering more money. That’s the strategy Google employed to ink its $32 billion deal to acquire cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz, which the two companies announced today. The deal reemerged from the ashes this week after Wiz last summer rejected a $23 billion bid from Google, deciding that it preferred to remain... If at first you don’t succeed, try offering more money. That’s the strategy Google employed to...

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Amazon Undercuts Nvidia With Aggressive AI Chip Discounts

By Kevin McLaughlin and Anissa Gardizy · Mar 18, 2025 6:00am PDT · 5 comments

Amazon Web Services has a new strategy to convince cloud customers to use its artificial intelligence chip rather than chips made by Nvidia: sharply undercutting Nvidia on price. A longtime AWS cloud customer said the company recently pitched them on renting servers powered by the chip, Trainium, that would give them the same computing... Amazon Web Services has a new strategy to convince cloud customers to use its artificial...

Speakers at The Information's AI Agenda Live conference in San Francisco February 27, 2025. Photo by Erin Beach. Art by Clark Miller.

AI Comes for the White-Collar Worker: Agenda Live Highlights

By The Information Staff · Feb 28, 2025 7:15am PST

A growing number of artificial intelligence assistants will make workers more productive in specialized fields such as law, medicine and entertainment. It could also replace some jobs altogether, said speakers at The Information’s AI Agenda Live conference Thursday. “We have tech companies very actively thinking about how I can reduce my IT... A growing number of artificial intelligence assistants will make workers more productive in...

Art by Clark Miller

How Runway Hopes to Outrun OpenAI, Google in the AI Video Race

By Gary Rivlin · Feb 28, 2025 6:00am PST · 2 comments

Art by Clark Miller

How Runway Hopes to Outrun OpenAI, Google in the AI Video Race

By Gary Rivlin · Feb 28, 2025 6:00am PST · 2 comments

There are two basic ways for startup founders to respond when much larger competitors encroach on their realm. They can soldier on with heads down and voices low, in silent determination. Or they can do as the founders of Runway did when the likes of Google and OpenAI entered the AI video field Runway helped pioneer: They can respond with... There are two basic ways for startup founders to respond when much larger competitors encroach on...

Art by Shane Burke

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U.K. Creators’ TikTok Problem

By Kaya Yurieff · Feb 26, 2025 2:56pm PST

There’s been a lot written about how U.S. creators will handle a potential TikTok shutdown in the U.S. But TikTokers in other countries such as the United Kingdom also stand to lose—and some are already finding it’s harder to close advertising deals. U.K. creators have sizable portions of their TikTok audiences in the U.S., with estimates... There’s been a lot written about how U.S. creators will handle a potential TikTok shutdown in the...

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Creator Economy: TikTok Employees Have Something Else to Fret About

By Sylvia Varnham O'Regan · Feb 13, 2025 2:25pm PST

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew had some good news for employees at the company’s all-hands meeting Wednesday night—and then some less than stellar news.While its short-lived shutdown in the U.S. nearly a month ago hurt the business, the app has seen “positive momentum” since then, Chew said, adding: “100% of our ad campaigns that were paused as a... TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew had some good news for employees at the company’s all-hands meeting...

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Anthropic Strikes Back

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Feb 13, 2025 7:00am PST

After OpenAI released its reasoning models last fall, Google, Alibaba, High-Flyer Capital Management and others followed with their own. One prominent competitor, Anthropic, has been noticeably absent from the race. Now we know one reason: Anthropic is taking a slightly different approach to reasoning. It has developed a hybrid AI model... After OpenAI released its reasoning models last fall, Google, Alibaba, High-Flyer Capital...

Art by Mike Sullivan

Shopify’s ‘Trojan Horse’ to Beat Salesforce

By Ann Gehan · Feb 7, 2025 6:00am PST

Art by Mike Sullivan

Shopify’s ‘Trojan Horse’ to Beat Salesforce

By Ann Gehan · Feb 7, 2025 6:00am PST

Shopify, best known for selling software and services to help small entrepreneurs run online shops, wants to boost its growth by landing bigger retailers as clients. One obvious target is merchants that use e-commerce software from enterprise giants like Salesforce, Adobe and Oracle. While Shopify has highlighted its success in winning some... Shopify, best known for selling software and services to help small entrepreneurs run online...

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Will DeepSeek Hurt Scale AI’s Business Model?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Feb 5, 2025 7:00am PST · 1 comment

To understand how OpenAI has been improving the quality of its reasoning models in recent months, check out the following question the company recently asked scores of biology PhDs:“Please write a summary of wet-lab experimental approaches available before August 2024 for assessing in parallel the gene expression effects of many different... To understand how OpenAI has been improving the quality of its reasoning models in recent months,...

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Pro Weekly: Freshly Funded AI Founders Go Deep on DeepSeek

By Akash Pasricha · Jan 31, 2025 8:00am PST

China’s DeepSeek rocked the technology world this week with its innovative and cheaper large language model. The founders of companies we’ve newly added to our Generative AI Database tell me they’ve been studying DeepSeek’s approach and thinking about how it could help their businesses.Geraldo Ramos, co-founder and CEO of Music AI—which... China’s DeepSeek rocked the technology world this week with its innovative and cheaper large...

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U.S. TikTok Employees Flee to Meta, Google

By Kaya Yurieff · Jan 23, 2025 2:00pm PST · 2 comments

As uncertainty around TikTok’s future has built for months, some U.S.-based employees at the short-form video app have left for other companies. Nearly one in ten of those departures have been to Meta Platforms, the parent of Instagram and Facebook, according to a new analysis from Live Data Technologies, which tracks personnel movements... As uncertainty around TikTok’s future has built for months, some U.S.-based employees at the...

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20 Great Books to Read Over the Holidays

By Abram Brown · Dec 27, 2024 11:52am PST

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20 Great Books to Read Over the Holidays

By Abram Brown · Dec 27, 2024 11:52am PST

One of Neal Stephenson’s favorite texting buddies is Seamus Blackley, a creator of the Xbox when he was at Microsoft and a former agent at Creative Artists Agency. Their friendship extends back years, and they often trade notes and thoughts on whatever technology has come to fascinate them. A while ago, they got to talking about radiation... One of Neal Stephenson’s favorite texting buddies is Seamus Blackley, a creator of the Xbox...