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Get Ready for a New Year and Brace for a Very Different One

By Ken Brown · Dec 31, 2025 8:20am PST

For an eventful year, 2025 is ending the same way it started. A year ago, Nvidia, OpenAI and others made it clear they would do everything necessary to win the race for artificial intelligence.The year ended with the same companies doing the same thing. Nvidia capped off a year of dealmaking—mostly to cement its lead in AI chips by agreeing to... For an eventful year, 2025 is ending the same way it started. A year ago, Nvidia, OpenAI and...

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Brookfield to Start Cloud Business to Lower Cost of AI

By Miles Kruppa · Dec 31, 2025 6:00am PST

Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips inside data centers directly to developers, rather... Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants...

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10 Charts That Explain 2025

By Shane Burke and The Information Staff · Dec 29, 2025 6:00am PST · 7 comments

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech. As AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic raced to release smarter models, the largest tech firms mapped out massive data centers that would guzzle up more energy than tens of millions of American households to power them. “Agent” became the industry’s favorite buzzword for... Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech. As AI firms like...

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Poor Tech IPO Performance Clouds Outlook for New Listings

By Cory Weinberg and Valida Pau · Dec 23, 2025 6:00am PST · 1 comment

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Poor Tech IPO Performance Clouds Outlook for New Listings

By Cory Weinberg and Valida Pau · Dec 23, 2025 6:00am PST · 1 comment

More than two-thirds of this year’s tech initial public offerings are trading below their listing prices, a poor reception that is casting doubt on the prospects for companies hoping to hit the market next year. The exceptions are the eagerly awaited deals from giants such as SpaceX and Anthropic. Among this year’s stumbles were venture-backed... More than two-thirds of this year’s tech initial public offerings are trading below their listing...

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Nvidia Restructures Cloud Team After Retreating From AWS Competition

By Anissa Gardizy and Wayne Ma · Dec 22, 2025 12:40pm PST · 1 comment

More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud service that could rival Amazon Web Services, he has backed away from competing with such firms and last week reorganized his company’s cloud team, according to several people with knowledge of the organizational change and an internal memo about it. The... More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud service...

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AI Infrastructure

Why Data Centers Are Falling Behind Schedule; Jensen Huang’s Power Summit

By Anissa Gardizy · Dec 22, 2025 9:24am PST · 1 comment

You’re about to start hearing a lot about data center delays. In fact, executives and investors I’ve been speaking with expect this will be one of the defining themes of 2026, as delays separate world-class operators from the rest of the pack. But to understand what this will actually mean for the artificial intelligence buildout, it helps... You’re about to start hearing a lot about data center delays. In fact, executives and investors I...

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OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips

By Anissa Gardizy, Sri Muppidi, Cory Weinberg and Amir Efrati · Dec 16, 2025 6:19pm PST · 1 comment

Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The valuation would be higher than $500 billion, one of the people said. The Amazon investment would help OpenAI afford some of the commitments it has made to rent servers from cloud providers, including from Amazon Web Services.... Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar...

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ServiceNow Sell-Off Highlights Jittery Market

By Martin Peers · Dec 15, 2025 5:00pm PST

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ServiceNow Sell-Off Highlights Jittery Market

By Martin Peers · Dec 15, 2025 5:00pm PST

Talk about a jittery market. Shares of ServiceNow dropped 11.5% on Monday after a weekend report that the enterprise software firm was in “advanced talks” to buy cybersecurity firm Armis for $7 billion. The stock sell-off wiped $21 billion off ServiceNow’s market capitalization—reducing it to $159 billion—which seems something of an... Talk about a jittery market. Shares of ServiceNow dropped 11.5% on Monday after a weekend report...

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AI Infrastructure

The ‘Bragawatt’ Data Center Era Brings Reality Checks—and Energy Breakthroughs

By Ann Davis Vaughan · Dec 15, 2025 9:30am PST · 8 comments

Welcome to AI Infrastructure, a new newsletter focused on how the data center boom is reshaping the energy sector and turning Silicon Valley into a rising industrial power.Ann Davis Vaughan has covered the intersection of energy and technology as both an investment analyst and journalist for two decades, including 14 years at The Wall Street... Welcome to AI Infrastructure, a new newsletter focused on how the data center boom is reshaping...

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How Netflix and the Ellisons Could Compromise on Warner

By Martin Peers · Dec 14, 2025 3:00pm PST

We’re heading into our last full working week of the year, so the news flow is likely to start quieting down. (Be on the lookout for ServiceNow’s next big acquisition, however). One story that’s likely to chug along through the holidays is the battle between Netflix and the Ellison family’s Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery. There’s... We’re heading into our last full working week of the year, so the news flow is likely to start...

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Data Center Firm Rowan Explores Capital Raising or Sale

By Anissa Gardizy and Valida Pau · Dec 12, 2025 3:24pm PST

A spike of investor interest in the data center sector has prompted one major data center developer, Rowan Digital Infrastructure, to consider whether this is a good time to raise fresh capital or possibly even sell, say people familiar with the company’s thinking. If it were to raise money or sell, it would likely be valued at more than $10... A spike of investor interest in the data center sector has prompted one major data center...

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Google’s Cloud Partner for Its AI Chips Is in Talks to Raise $700 Million

By Anissa Gardizy, Cory Weinberg and Miles Kruppa · Dec 4, 2025 10:29am PST

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Google’s Cloud Partner for Its AI Chips Is in Talks to Raise $700 Million

By Anissa Gardizy, Cory Weinberg and Miles Kruppa · Dec 4, 2025 10:29am PST

Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google’s AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700 million in new financing, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. A one-year-old investment fund started by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is in talks to lead the financing, one of the people said. Aschenbrenner’s fund,... Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google’s AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700...

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Google’s Vertical Assault on the AI Market

By The Information Staff · Nov 26, 2025 8:00am PST

Google is leveraging its financial stamina and vertical integration to take share from markets dominated by OpenAI and Nvidia. We asked Deep Research to analyze how Google’s resurgence this year in AI software and its continued server hardware improvements are reshaping the industry. Here is the response. Google is leveraging its financial stamina and vertical integration to take share from markets...

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Oracle-Linked Borrowing Binge Worries Lenders

By Miles Kruppa · Nov 25, 2025 6:00am PST

Construction lending was a relatively sleepy corner of Wall Street until Oracle stepped up to become one of OpenAI’s biggest cloud providers, leading to a flood of debt to help build new data centers for the database giant. The volume of borrowing is making some lenders leery. Companies building data centers for Oracle have borrowed at least... Construction lending was a relatively sleepy corner of Wall Street until Oracle stepped up to...

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Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia’s Turf With New AI Chip Push

By Amir Efrati, Erin Woo and Anissa Gardizy · Nov 24, 2025 2:43pm PST · 19 comments

Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business. For years, the search giant has rented out its own AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to cloud customers who use them in its Google Cloud data centers. Now, though, Google has begun pitching some of those customers—including Meta... Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip...

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As AI Data Centers Face Delays, the Blame Game Begins

By Anissa Gardizy · Nov 24, 2025 10:11am PST · 1 comment

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AI Infrastructure

As AI Data Centers Face Delays, the Blame Game Begins

By Anissa Gardizy · Nov 24, 2025 10:11am PST · 1 comment

The mood is shifting in AI data center circles. The euphoria of record-setting, multi-gigawatt deals has given way to finger pointing as deadlines to get AI servers online slip or get dangerously close to falling behind.For months, data center builders have told me many of the gigawatt-size AI server facilities are running behind schedule... The mood is shifting in AI data center circles. The euphoria of record-setting, multi-gigawatt...

Sunday Insights

Nvidia’s Mushrooming Cash Pile Spotlights Spending Choices

By Martin Peers · Nov 23, 2025 8:00am PST · 4 comments

All of the big tech companies have long been cash geysers. But the rate at which Nvidia’s cash production has exploded in the past couple of years is on a whole different level than other companies have experienced. And that’s raising questions about how Nvidia will spend its fast-expanding cash pile. Nvidia’s free cash flow has mushroomed from... All of the big tech companies have long been cash geysers. But the rate at which Nvidia’s cash...

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SoftBank to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Factory for OpenAI Data Centers

By Sri Muppidi · Nov 20, 2025 6:00am PST · 1 comment

SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion to remodel an electric vehicle plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI’s forthcoming data centers, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The Japanese conglomerate, one of the largest investors in OpenAI, will use the factory to supply data center sites in Texas and... SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion to remodel an electric vehicle plant in Lordstown,...

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It’s too Soon to Call an End to the AI Boom

By Ken Brown · Nov 19, 2025 8:00am PST · 3 comments

I’m the senior finance editor here at The Information. I’ll be writing this new column on money, dealmaking and bubbles of all sorts every Wednesday. If you have any feedback or suggestions on topics I should explore, feel free to reply directly with your feedback.We’re launching this newsletter to cover the increasing role finance is... I’m the senior finance editor here at The Information. I’ll be writing this new column on money,...