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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Ruhani Kaur/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
The Briefing

Anthropic’s Contradiction; The Risks of Buying SpaceX Stock Now

By Martin Peers · Jun 14, 2026 3:01pm PDT
What a weekend! Set time aside this coming Thursday for the New York City ticker tape parade celebrating the victorious Knicks. The joy flowing from that game Saturday night tops even the  plaudits flowing from SpaceX’s successful IPO (read down for more on that subject.) Still, SpaceX was quickly supplanted in the business limelight ... What a weekend! Set time aside this coming Thursday for the New York City ticker tape parade ...
Art: Clark Miller
The Big Read

Bootleg Reta is Silicon Valley’s Drug of the Summer

By Jemima McEvoy · Jun 12, 2026 9:01am PDT
For more than a decade, Dr. Molly Maloof has had a front-row seat to Silicon Valley’s ever-evolving health obsessions as a physician and founder of M3 Healthspan, a San Francisco–based concierge medical practice serving the tech elite. Lately, those conversations have focused on one substance perceived as a wonder drug among wonder drugs:... For more than a decade, Dr. Molly Maloof has had a front-row seat to Silicon Valley’s...
Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma. Photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images.
The Briefing

Microsoft’s Gaming Glitch

By Martin Peers · Jun 11, 2026 5:00pm PDT · 1 comment
Sorry. We have no SpaceX news (if you define news as something you don’t already know). The rocket-and-cloud firm on Thursday priced its IPO at the $135 offering number announced last week, as it was widely expected to. Check back tomorrow, when shares start to trade. (Here’s a clue about the possible opening price.) Not to be a wet blanket, but... Sorry. We have no SpaceX news (if you define news as something you don’t already know). The...
China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao. Photo by Bloomberg.
China Tech Summit

China Tech Headed for Record Year for IPOs Despite Pandemic

By Juro Osawa and Yunan Zhang · Jul 24, 2020 4:34am PDT
The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and private equity firms, said he expects 2020 to be a record-breaking year for Chinese tech initial public offerings. “Right now the IPO market is sizzling hot,” said China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao, at The Information’s video summit on... The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and...
Jessica Lessin interviews Alibaba's Joe Tsai. Photo by Brent Pottinger.
China Subscriber Summit

Watch Interviews From Beijing and Hong Kong Summits

By The Information Staff · Oct 6, 2017 2:47pm PDT · 1 comment
If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos here. Among those on stage were Joe Tsai of Alibaba, Shou Zi Chew of Xiaomi and Bob Xu of Zhen Fund. If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos...
Sinovation founder Kai-Fu Lee. Photo by Bloomberg.
Silicon China

How China-U.S. Tech Ties Have Evolved

By Shai Oster · Sep 27, 2017 11:59am PDT
Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office of Sinovation Ventures. One of the most active investors in Chinese startups, Sinovation is also building a portfolio of companies in the U.S. The U.S. team is led by Chris Evdemon, a Greek-born, U.K.-educated venture capitalist who cut his teeth in... Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office...