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Applied AI

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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The Briefing

Perplexity Takes On Amazon

By Martin Peers · Nov 4, 2025 5:00pm PST
Cue the violins. Perplexity on Tuesday accused Amazon of bullying it by demanding that the AI startup no longer allow its users to send their AI assistants to Amazon to buy stuff. The startup, which is an expert at public relations theatrics, published a long blog post entitled “Bullying Is Not Innovation,” in which it claimed to be “fighting... Cue the violins. Perplexity on Tuesday accused Amazon of bullying it by demanding that the AI...
The Information 50

Introducing The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups of 2025

By Amir Efrati · Nov 4, 2025 6:00am PST · 9 comments
Investor euphoria around artificial intelligence has shown little sign of wearing off this year, especially as ex-employees of AI developers such as OpenAI, Google and Palantir raised capital for their own AI startups. That made it more difficult than ever to identify promising but relatively unknown startups that fit the criteria for the sixth... Investor euphoria around artificial intelligence has shown little sign of wearing off this year,...
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AWS Joins OpenAI Club
By Martin Peers · Nov 3, 2025 5:00pm PST
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The Briefing

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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WTF: Women in Tech, Media and Finance

The Information’s WTF Summit in Pictures

By The Information Staff · Nov 1, 2025 5:24am PDT
Executives from Netflix, Palantir and YouTube along with dozens more of the most powerful and influential women in technology, media and finance gathered earlier this week for The Information’s annual WTF Summit. The conversations ranged from how AI is reshaping the financing markets to sponsorship pricing power in the WNBA—while attendees... Executives from Netflix, Palantir and YouTube along with dozens more of the most powerful and...
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Applied AI

How Microsoft Escaped the AI Margin Squeeze; An FDE Boom

By Aaron Holmes and Kevin McLaughlin · Oct 30, 2025 10:33am PDT
Microsoft shared some good and bad news with investors during its quarterly earnings call Wednesday: More customers have been using Microsoft’s suite of AI copilots, but many of them aren’t paying for it. Microsoft said more people are using Copilot Chat, which provides ChatGPT-like features to Office 365 subscribers for free (more advanced... Microsoft shared some good and bad news with investors during its quarterly earnings call...
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Deep Research

OpenAI Moves Up the Stack: Why Every Software Incumbent is Now a Target

By The Information Staff · Oct 29, 2025 1:24pm PDT
OpenAI is moving beyond its role as a technology partner, transforming its model lead into a multi-front assault on established software giants. This pivot positions the company not just as a supplier, but as a formidable application competitor, aiming to own the entire user workflow in markets like productivity, consulting, and e-commerce. This... OpenAI is moving beyond its role as a technology partner, transforming its model lead into a...
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Paris Hilton Has Been Training Her AI for Years
By Catherine Perloff and Erin Woo · Oct 29, 2025 6:19am PDT
Paris Hilton at WTF. Photo by Erin Beach.
WTF: Women in Tech, Media and Finance

Paris Hilton Has Been Training Her AI for Years

By Catherine Perloff and Erin Woo · Oct 29, 2025 6:19am PDT
Paris Hilton said she has spent years training an artificial intelligence chatbot based on her interviews, writing and songs that knows her “sometimes even better than I know myself.” “It’s studied every single thing I’ve done, everywhere I’ve been, every interview I’ve done,” she said onstage at The Information’s Women in Tech, Media and... Paris Hilton said she has spent years training an artificial intelligence chatbot based on her...
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AI Agenda

Why Anthropic and OpenAI Are Using Cognition’s Coding Test

By Rocket Drew · Oct 27, 2025 7:00am PDT
As artificial intelligence models improve, the companies developing them are seeking more sophisticated ways to measure how good they are at a wide range of tasks. As a result, they are developing internal benchmarks to test models’ capabilities, rather than relying on publicly available tests.Cognition, which has created the Devin coding agent,... As artificial intelligence models improve, the companies developing them are seeking more...
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Exclusive

Anduril Is a Hot Ticket Despite Burning More Than $800 Million in Cash

By Cory Weinberg · Oct 27, 2025 6:00am PDT
Defense tech company Anduril expects to burn through $800 million to $900 million in cash this year in an aggressive bid to win giant Pentagon contracts. Investors big and small are unperturbed, lining up to back the fast-growing seller of drones, missiles and border surveillance towers. The company appears to be the most coveted stock in the... Defense tech company Anduril expects to burn through $800 million to $900 million in cash this...
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Applied AI

Airbnb CEO Throws Subtle Shade at OpenAI; Khosla’s Enterprise AI Fix

By Kevin McLaughlin · Oct 23, 2025 11:12am PDT
Welcome back! At its developer conference earlier this month, OpenAI showed a forthcoming feature that lets ChatGPT users access services from Expedia, Uber and Spotify directly in the chatbot. Some consumer apps might view such a feature as a threat because it bypasses their sites, preventing them from showcasing other products.For his... Welcome back! At its developer conference earlier this month, OpenAI showed a forthcoming...
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What Microsoft Could Teach Oracle
By Martin Peers · Oct 17, 2025 3:00pm PDT · 1 comment
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The Briefing

What Microsoft Could Teach Oracle

By Martin Peers · Oct 17, 2025 3:00pm PDT · 1 comment
Was it something they said? Oracle shares fell 7% on Friday, a day after the software and cloud firm offered investors bullish growth projections for the next five years, both for revenue and for profits. In Oracle’s ideal world, those projections would have put to rest concerns about the cost of its artificial intelligence cloud expansion,... Was it something they said? Oracle shares fell 7% on Friday, a day after the software and cloud...
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Exclusive

Oracle Assures Investors on AI Cloud Margins as It Struggles to Profit From Older Nvidia Chips

By Anissa Gardizy · Oct 16, 2025 2:15pm PDT · 1 comment
Oracle on Thursday sought to reassure investors that its business of renting out servers packed with Nvidia chips to OpenAI, Meta and other artificial intelligence developers will become far more profitable as revenue surges. Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk told financial analysts Thursday that the company’s AI data center business, which is mostly... Oracle on Thursday sought to reassure investors that its business of renting out servers packed...
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The Briefing

The Big Question for Amazon and OpenAI

By Theo Wayt · Oct 15, 2025 5:00pm PDT · 2 comments
Walmart’s announcement this week that it would become the first major retailer to start selling products through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout shows that big retailers are being forced to take new forms of artificial intelligence–related online shopping seriously. It’s not shocking that Walmart, as a megaretailer that wants to sell more stuff... Walmart’s announcement this week that it would become the first major retailer to start selling...
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Exclusive

Founders Fund Shifts From Caution to Concentrated Bets on AI

By Miles Kruppa · Oct 6, 2025 6:00am PDT · 4 comments
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is doubling down on its biggest artificial intelligence bets, embracing a concentrated strategy as rivals spread their bets across a wide swath of startups. Among them are OpenAI, data center builder Crusoe and General Matter, a nuclear fuel startup the firm has incubated, Founders Fund said at its recent annual... Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is doubling down on its biggest artificial intelligence bets,...
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Every Enterprise Software Firm is Selling the Same AI Products
By Amir Efrati and Aaron Holmes · Sep 23, 2025 10:30am PDT · 1 comment
Workday Chief Technology Officer Peter Bailis. Art by Clark Miller; image via YouTube.
Applied AI

Every Enterprise Software Firm is Selling the Same AI Products

By Amir Efrati and Aaron Holmes · Sep 23, 2025 10:30am PDT · 1 comment
Workday has spent most of its 20-year existence selling applications that businesses use to manage their employees and financial operations. Now, the company is joining the growing list of software incumbents that are competing head-on in ways they didn’t use to, by selling the same artificial intelligence-powered applications.Last week, Workday... Workday has spent most of its 20-year existence selling applications that businesses use to...
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AI Agenda

Nvidia and OpenAI’s Fates Get Even More Intertwined

By Anissa Gardizy · Sep 23, 2025 7:00am PDT · 1 comment
Larry Ellison might have thought his firm’s 4.5 gigawatt cloud deal with OpenAI was unmatched.That is, until he woke up on Monday morning to see OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announcing something much bigger: data center plans that are more than double the size of Oracle’s. The numbers are quite staggering. If OpenAI and... Larry Ellison might have thought his firm’s 4.5 gigawatt cloud deal with OpenAI was unmatched....
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The Briefing

Nvidia Pays OpenAI to Buy Its Chips

By Martin Peers · Sep 22, 2025 5:00pm PDT · 2 comments
OpenAI loves to make grand announcements. Earlier this year we had the hoopla about its Stargate data center venture, worth up to $500 billion. Today the ChatGPT creator announced a letter of intent to form a strategic partnership with Nvidia to “build and deploy” artificial intelligence data centers holding “millions” of Nvidia’s AI chips. To... OpenAI loves to make grand announcements. Earlier this year we had the hoopla about its Stargate...