Articles from www.theinformation.com

Articles from www.theinformation.com

Sources: TikTok plans to block access to its app for US users on Jan. 19 unless SCOTUS stops the ban; one source says a pop-up message will give users more info (www.theinformation.com)
2025-1-15 Ban

Memo: Microsoft reorgs its cloud and AI teams to form a new “Core AI” unit led by Jay Parikh, the ex-Lacework CEO and Meta engineering exec that joined in 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-1-14 Microsoft AI

Sources: Microsoft, Meta, AWS, and Google recently cut some orders of Nvidia's Blackwell GB200 racks, as overheating and connection glitches lead to delays (www.theinformation.com)
2025-1-14 Google Microsoft Nvidia

Amazon has quietly changed or removed pages on its corporate website that declared its commitment to DEI and other issues (www.theinformation.com)
2025-1-11 Amazon

Source: OpenAI may launch agents this month and has been cautious, as rivals like Anthropic moved ahead, partly due to concerns of prompt injection attacks (www.theinformation.com)
2025-1-8

Email: NYC-based Level, which raised a $27M Series A in 2021 to help companies offer staff benefits, shuts down after an effort to sell the company fell through (www.theinformation.com)
2025-1-3

Sources: Morgan Stanley's E-Trade explores adding crypto trading, if approved by Federal Reserve, anticipating a favorable regulatory environment under Trump (www.theinformation.com)
2025-1-3 Trump Morgan Stanley

Source: ByteDance keeps using a loophole for US chip sanctions and told suppliers it planned to spend up to $7B to access Nvidia chips outside China in 2025 (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-31 China Nvidia

Bookkeeping startup Bench, which raised $100M+ including from Shopify, closes down effective immediately; several employees say Bench also laid off staff (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-28 Startup Shopify

An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-27 Microsoft AI

Source: Microsoft and OpenAI wrangle over Microsoft's stake in the for-profit, use of OpenAI's IP, continued collection of 20% of OpenAI's revenue, and more (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-27 Microsoft

A look at OpenAI's interest in humanoid robots, from investing in startups like Figure and Physical Intelligence to, sources say, considering making one itself (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-25 Startup Robot Intelligence

Two major China-based Amazon merchants say Amazon reps have recently been offering incentives like free ads and lower commissions if they stop selling on Temu (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-25 China Amazon

Google hired 100+ staffers of Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google's work on its new Android XR OS, raising questions about the future of Magic Leap (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-21 Android Google

Shivakumar Venkataraman, a longtime Google executive who joined OpenAI earlier this year to help lead the development of search and AI for enterprise, has left (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-21 Google AI

Anthropic, whose CEO Dario Amodei has been quite vocal about opposing Trump, and OpenAI look to hire people with ties to Trump and GOP for their policy teams (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-20 Trump Republican

Sources: Character.AI rival Talkie, one of the most-downloaded AI apps in the US and made by China's MiniMax, prepares an AI video feature to reignite growth (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-18 China AI

Sources detail Anthropic and OpenAI's rivalry: OpenAI boosted ChatGPT's coding skills in response to Claude, Anthropic's safety focus, exec bad blood, and more (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-13

Sources: Apple is working with Broadcom to develop its first AI server chip, codenamed Baltra and set for 2026 mass production, a milestone for its silicon team (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-12 AI Apple

Source: Google asked the US to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's tech on its cloud servers (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-11 Google Microsoft

Sources: Meta is shifting part of the development and design of MR headsets to Chinese manufacturer Goertek and moving half of production to Vietnam from China (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-6 China Vietnam

Sources: Apple and Baidu are working to add AI features to Chinese iPhones but have clashed over model training data, and the models have struggled with prompts (www.theinformation.com)
2024-12-5 China AI Apple

Sources: ByteDance execs fear that launching its own AI models, or apps powered by the models, in the US could give lawmakers another excuse to attack TikTok (www.theinformation.com)
2024-11-30 AI

Source: Amazon's new generative AI model, codenamed Olympus, can process images, video, and text, and could be unveiled at next week's AWS re:Invent (www.theinformation.com)
2024-11-28 Amazon AI

Sriram Krishnan, a general partner at a16z, is leaving the firm; source: he has talked to Elon Musk about joining the Department of Government Efficiency (www.theinformation.com)
2024-11-28 Elon Musk

Sources: the prototypes of the thin iPhone are between 5 and 6 millimeters thick, and may be too thin for a physical SIM, which could dampen China sales (www.theinformation.com)
2024-11-26 China iPhone

Sources: OpenAI considered making a browser, discussed deals to power AI features on Samsung devices and search on sites and apps from Condé Nast and others (www.theinformation.com)
2024-11-22 Samsung AI Browser

Source: Databricks has told investors it is looking to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold restricted stock units (www.theinformation.com)
2024-11-20

Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems (www.theinformation.com)
2024-11-18 Nvidia

Sources: Meta plans to launch ads on Threads in early 2025; Meta's public statements imply any ad rollout for Threads next year will be slow (www.theinformation.com)
2024-11-14

Previous Page Next Page