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Eventbrite Punches Exit Ticket

By Martin Peers · Dec 2, 2025 5:00pm PST

For all the venture capitalist–inspired hype around tech startups, it’s always good to remember that many are too niche to ever amount to anything—and should never go public. We got a reminder of that on Tuesday when Italian conglomerate Bending Spoons said it would buy ticketing firm Eventbrite for $500 million in cash. That’s a stunning... For all the venture capitalist–inspired hype around tech startups, it’s always good to remember...

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In a Reversal, AWS Makes it Easier For AI Customers to Use Rival Clouds

By Kevin McLaughlin and Aaron Holmes · Dec 2, 2025 10:33am PST

Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are arch-rivals in the cloud computing market, so it was surprising to hear them announce Monday that they’re working to make it easier for their joint customers to move data and develop applications that run on both clouds. Tech companies are constantly issuing announcements about working together, but... Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are arch-rivals in the cloud computing market, so it was...

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The Flaw With Strategy’s Stock-Selling Merry-Go-Round

By Martin Peers · Dec 1, 2025 5:00pm PST

You can always rely on Michael Saylor and the folks at Strategy to blaze new trails in corporate finance. Take Strategy’s announcement today that it had raised $1.44 billion by selling shares to—get this—establish a “USD reserve” to pay the $689 million it owes annually in dividends on its stock and interest on its debt. Usually companies try to... You can always rely on Michael Saylor and the folks at Strategy to blaze new trails in corporate...

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OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever Joins the Skeptics

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Dec 1, 2025 7:00am PST · 3 comments

Ilya Sutskever and Dwarkesh Patel. Screenshot via YouTube

OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever Joins the Skeptics

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Dec 1, 2025 7:00am PST · 3 comments

As Sri and I head to San Diego for the annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference this week (get in touch if you’ll also be there!), we’re excited to learn more about reinforcement learning, the model training technique du jour at all the major AI developers.There’s rising skepticism among researchers, including OpenAI co-founder ... As Sri and I head to San Diego for the annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference...

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As AWS Preps New AI Models, Relations With Anthropic Get Complicated

By Kevin McLaughlin · Dec 1, 2025 6:00am PST · 1 comment

There’s a lot about Amazon’s efforts to put itself in the middle of the AI frenzy that hasn’t gone to plan over the past couple years. Its attempt to develop Amazon AI models that can compete with the most cutting-edge technologies from OpenAI, Google and others is still a work in progress. To buy time to improve Amazon’s own models, its cloud... There’s a lot about Amazon’s efforts to put itself in the middle of the AI frenzy that hasn’t...

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AWS Beats the AI Drum in Vegas

By Kevin McLaughlin · Nov 30, 2025 4:07pm PST

Hopefully, everyone has digested their Thanksgiving leftovers. It’s going to be a busy week, tech event-wise. The biggest of them all is re:Invent, Amazon Web Services’ annual customer conference in Las Vegas that has become something like the Super Bowl of cloud computing. On Tuesday, AWS CEO Matt Garman is scheduled to take the stage for... Hopefully, everyone has digested their Thanksgiving leftovers. It’s going to be a busy week, tech...

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Cyber Startup Veza in Talks With Potential Buyers for $1 Billion-Plus Sale

By Valida Pau and Katie Roof · Nov 21, 2025 6:01pm PST

Veza, whose software helps businesses monitor employees’ and AI agents’ access to internal data, has been talking to potential buyers about a sale that could value the startup at more than $1 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions. A sale at that level would be a premium to its price in April, when investors led by New... Veza, whose software helps businesses monitor employees’ and AI agents’ access to internal data,...

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China’s Open-Source Models Challenge Anthropic in AI Coding

By Juro Osawa · Nov 10, 2025 7:00am PST

Art by Mike Sullivan

China’s Open-Source Models Challenge Anthropic in AI Coding

By Juro Osawa · Nov 10, 2025 7:00am PST

Chinese companies are launching open-source AI models built to power coding assistants as cheaper alternatives to those available from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Late last month, Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax launched M2, a new open-source large language model developed primarily for coding and AI agents. In a post on X, MiniMax... Chinese companies are launching open-source AI models built to power coding assistants as cheaper...

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Agents Learn to Haggle Prices with Software Vendors

By Aaron Holmes and Kevin McLaughlin · Nov 6, 2025 10:42am PST

While artificial intelligence agents continue to generate mixed results, depending on how much assistance customers get from their AI vendors, some of them have gained a new skill: negotiating software contracts.Over the past year, data management startup Cribl has been using an AI agent from procurement software startup Zip that reads Cribl’s... While artificial intelligence agents continue to generate mixed results, depending on how much...

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AWS Joins OpenAI Club

By Martin Peers · Nov 3, 2025 5:00pm PST

If you’re tired of the seemingly endless parade of AI cloud deals, better get comfortable with them: They’re not going away anytime soon. On Monday, for instance, Microsoft struck deals with two little-known cloud firms, Lambda and Australia’s Iren, for additional computing capacity. Another firm, Cipher Mining Inc. announced a similar deal to... If you’re tired of the seemingly endless parade of AI cloud deals, better get comfortable with...

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What Ilya Saw: Mira Murati’s Screenshots About Sam Altman

By Amir Efrati · Nov 3, 2025 7:00am PST · 1 comment

Before we get to today’s column, OpenAI is continuing its trend of diversifying its cloud compute providers away from Microsoft. Monday morning, the ChatGPT maker announced that it has signed a seven-year, $38 billion cloud deal with Amazon Web Services. OpenAI will immediately start using compute from AWS, with the goal to deploy all capacity... Before we get to today’s column, OpenAI is continuing its trend of diversifying its cloud compute...

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Anthropic, AWS Give Customers of AI Agents a Helping Hand

By Aaron Holmes · Nov 3, 2025 6:00am PST · 1 comment

Art via Clark Miller

Anthropic, AWS Give Customers of AI Agents a Helping Hand

By Aaron Holmes · Nov 3, 2025 6:00am PST · 1 comment

Over the past year, companies have been trying to hand over job duties to artificial intelligence agents. But these agents often aren’t good at their jobs, so AI providers are working hands-on with customers to stop them from screwing up. Fnac, a European retailer similar to Best Buy, struggled with an AI customer support agent after testing... Over the past year, companies have been trying to hand over job duties to artificial intelligence...

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Sunday Insights

Google and Microsoft Face Less AI Spending Risk Than Meta, Amazon

By Martin Peers · Nov 2, 2025 8:00am PST · 1 comment

Of all the big tech companies investing in AI, Google and Microsoft are the best positioned to handle the growing costs of the technology, judging from data disclosed this past week in September-quarter earnings. Google and Microsoft generate more cash from their businesses than other big tech companies, including Apple. And they’re devoting a... Of all the big tech companies investing in AI, Google and Microsoft are the best positioned to...