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AI Agenda

Cohere CEO Says His Gross Profit Margins Are Great; Takeaways From NeurIPS

By Aaron Holmes and Stephanie Palazzolo · Dec 8, 2025 7:00am PST
Before we get to today’s column, check out this story about last week’s Neural Information Processing Systems conference, where a number of researchers cast doubt on some of today’s most popular techniques for improving AI. Some researchers, including at OpenAI, have ideas for new techniques that could produce better results.Other researchers... Before we get to today’s column, check out this story about last week’s Neural Information...
Larry Ellison, Hock Tan Take the Stage This Week
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Larry Ellison, Hock Tan Take the Stage This Week

By Martin Peers · Dec 7, 2025 3:00pm PST
Step aside, young folks of tech. This week we hear from the industry’s, ah, elder statesmen—specifically Larry Ellison at Oracle and Hock Tan from Broadcom, whose combined age is about 150. Oracle and Broadcom are each reporting their latest quarterly earnings this week, when the status of their newish AI businesses will be in the spotlight. In... Step aside, young folks of tech. This week we hear from the industry’s, ah, elder statesmen—...
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The Weekend

What Happens At ‘Code Red’ OpenAI

By Abram Brown · Dec 6, 2025 7:00am PST
Welcome, Weekenders! First, an exciting announcement: Amy Dockser Marcus, a Pulitzer Prize–winning former Wall Street Journal reporter, is joining The Information to cover health and science for Weekend. She begins next week. Amy has long chronicled those two fields, penning memorable pieces about fertility, DNA testing and how many of you... Welcome, Weekenders! First, an exciting announcement: Amy Dockser Marcus, a Pulitzer Prize–...
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Meta Platforms Plans Performance-Based Job Cuts

By Sylvia Varnham O'Regan and Kalley Huang · Jan 14, 2025 8:03am PST · 1 comment
Meta Platforms plans a new round of job cuts in the coming weeks, the company told employees on Tuesday, focused on employees who are considered weak performers. The cuts would affect about 5% of Meta’s employees, or about 3,600 people, a human resources director later told staff. In a post on the company’s internal chat system, Meta... Meta Platforms plans a new round of job cuts in the coming weeks, the company told employees on...
Mark Zuckerberg speaking at Meta Connect 2023. Photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
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Meta Platforms Retakes Its Open-Source Lead

By Kalley Huang and Stephanie Palazzolo · Apr 22, 2024 7:00am PDT
Meta Platforms made a splash Thursday with the release of Llama 3, the latest version of its popular open-source large language model, though we stole some of the thunder with our scoop earlier this month. Developers have a lot to say about it—most of it good.For the most part, the 8-billion and 70-billion parameter versions of Llama 3... Meta Platforms made a splash Thursday with the release of Llama 3, the latest version of its...
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Meta Platforms to Launch Small Versions of Llama 3 Next Week

By Sylvia Varnham O'Regan · Apr 8, 2024 3:33pm PDT
Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, according to a Meta employee. The models will serve as a precursor to the launch of the biggest version of Llama 3, expected this summer. Release of the two small models will likely help spark excitement for the forthcoming Llama 3,... Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language...