TikTok Shop, the short-form video app’s e-commerce platform, made a big splash nearly two years ago when it first launched in the U.S. Even though it’s reduced the initial deep discounts for shoppers and sellers, quieting some of the initial buzz over the service, some startups are still betting TikTok’s social shopping features will grow.One is Conduit Commerce, which is coming out of stealth this week and recently acquired the... Read more ›
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Two out of three subscribers to The Information who responded to a survey have taken a ride in a self-driving car—and nearly 99% of riders were satisfied with the experience. The survey results are the latest confirmation that after years of development and testing, self-driving cars are finally revving up. Read more ›
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Disney’s ESPN has launched its highly-anticipated new streaming service, which features all of the live and on-demand programming the sports media giant has to offer. This includes the ability to stream ESPN’s cable TV channels, as well as documentaries and studio programming produced by ESPN. ... Read more ›
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Our Wednesday story about rising costs of businesses that pay for advanced artificial intelligence from OpenAI and Anthropic stirred strong reactions from readers. OpenAI researcher Aidan McLaughlin wondered aloud where we had gotten the idea that state-of-the-art AI was supposed to get cheaper. The answer: his boss, Sam Altman. OpenAI’s CEO said last month at a conference hosted by the Federal Reserve that “it does in fact look like we’re... Read more ›
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Crusoe, the developer behind OpenAI’s first Stargate data center, is discussing raising funds at a $10 billion valuation—more than three times its valuation less than a year ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising talks. The seven-year-old company wants to raise at least $1 billion to fulfill its ambitions to become a more formidable player in cloud computing, which will require it to buy more artificial... Read more ›
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Rent the Runway CEO and cofounder Jennifer Hyman is turning over control of the clothing-rental firm to its longtime lender and a group of other investors, the company said Thursday. In exchange, the company is cutting its heavy debt load. Shares rose around 9% in morning trading following the ... Read more ›
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If there’s one thing the artificial intelligence industry hasn’t been lacking in recently, it’s news. So on Wednesday’s episode of TITV, our editor-in-chief Jessica Lessin asked Bret Taylor, CEO of customer-support agent firm Sierra, and Winston Weinberg, CEO of legal agent startup Harvey, for their thoughts on recent developments ranging from OpenAI’s rocky GPT-5 release to the rising costs that businesses face when purchasing agents and other advanced AI.Taylor has... Read more ›
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Solana, the wild younger sibling of the crypto world, wants to be taken seriously. Best known for memecoins and its connection to crypto exchange FTX, the blockchain is getting close to breaking into mainstream finance. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which has turned crypto-friendly under President Donald Trump, is expected to approve exchange-traded funds that will hold solana tokens by mid October, according to Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart,... Read more ›
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Canva launched an employee stock sale that values the Australian design software startup at $42 billion, up from $32 billion in a secondary sale deal last year. The deal allows employees to cash out shares to new and existing investors including Fidelity and JPMorgan Asset Management, Bloomberg ... Read more ›
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Could the artificial intelligence business develop like cable TV or cellular, where the real money is made by apps running on top of internet pipes, rather than by the telecom firms that spent billions building those pipes? That would be a big deal for AI. It implies that AI agent developers will end up more profitable than AI model makers, like OpenAI, which are spending billions on AI development costs.... Read more ›
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It wasn’t the message I expected to hear from Bret Taylor, a veteran Silicon Valley executive and, yes—an artificial intelligence startup founder—as I interviewed him on The Information’s TITV to discuss his latest startup, Sierra. Taylor, more than anyone else I know in the tech industry, has straddled both big and small tech. I first met him when he was working on a startup called FriendFeed, which he sold to... Read more ›
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Every episode of Bella Freud’s video podcast begins the same way: A doorbell rings, and she welcomes a guest—ranging from supermodel Kate Moss to designer Christian Louboutin—to lay down on a couch in her London home.  A camera attached to the couch captures a flattering angle of the person’s face from above. The setup is a tongue-and-cheek nod to Freud’s family history. The 64-year-old fashion designer is the great granddaughter... Read more ›
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Google unveiled its new lineup of Pixel phones, watches and earbuds on Wednesday, touting new AI and camera capabilities in a creator-studded lineup hosted by the comedian Jimmy Fallon. The standout new feature was “Magic Cue,” which uses Google AI to draw information from different apps on a ... Read more ›
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Meta misled advertisers about ad performance and may have evaded Apple’s privacy restrictions, according to a complaint filed in a UK court by a former Meta employee, according to an Adweek report. Marketers judge ad performance based on a metric called return on ad spend—how much revenue an ad ... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase and Japanese lender MUFG are in talks to underwrite a $22 billion debt financing for a 1,200 acre data center complex being developed by Vantage Data Centers, the Financial Times reported. Vantage’s backers DigitalBridge and Silver Lake would also invest a combined $3 billion in ... Read more ›
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China is considering approving yuan-backed stablecoins for the first time to boost the usage and influence of its currency globally, Reuters reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The government will study a roadmap to promote the yuan later this month, including ways to catch ... Read more ›
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The debate around whether it’s better to be an AI-powered app that millions of people use, like Cursor, or an AI model like Claude that powers such apps is getting interesting.While Cursor and other customers of AI models are hurting as OpenAI and Anthropic hold model prices steady rather than cutting them—as they have been doing for the past couple of years (see my colleague Aaron’s story this morning), the... Read more ›
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Last year, the cost for businesses to purchase state-of-the-art artificial intelligence was plummeting. Top AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google had slashed the price of their flagship AI models by more than 90% compared to prior years, while DeepSeek and other open-source developers were releasing free yet powerful models. Google CEO Sundar Pichai predicted AI would soon be “like air, too cheap to meter.” It hasn’t turned out... Read more ›
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Character.AI, the chatbot maker whose founders Google rehired as part of a $2.7 billion deal last August, has in recent weeks discussed a sale of the company with potential buyers, bankers and staff, according to three people who have spoken to its executives. The nearly four-year-old startup could try to stick it out as an independent company instead. Executives have also recently talked with investors about raising a few hundred... Read more ›
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Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that briefly went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, said it has achieved an annualized run rate of $90 million. Manus Co-founder Peak Ji revealed the number Wednesday during a conference in Singapore hosted by Stripe. The ... Read more ›
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