Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a âSession Immortalââor, even better, âToken Legend.â The rankings, set up by a Meta employee on its intranet using company data, measure how many tokensâthe units of data processed by AI modelsâemployees are burning through. Dubbed âClaudeonomicsâ after the flagship product of AI startup Anthropic, the leaderboard aggregates... Read more âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar are diverging over the companyâs timeline for an initial public offering as Altman pushes for a public debut as early as the fourth quarter, The Information reported. Friar has privately expressed concerns that the AI startup will not be ... Read more âș
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The first quarter is over, and tech earnings season is only a couple of weeks away. Hereâs something worth thinking about: Big tech stocks out of favor with investorsâparticularly Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platformsâneed to show something striking when they report for the quarter if they want to get out of the doghouse theyâre in.If they donât, sentiment is likely to become even more negative. In the next few months,... Read more âș
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Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon as the fourth quarter despite expectations his company will burn more than $200 billion before it starts generating cash. Behind the scenes, Sarah Friar, his chief financial officer, has voiced concerns that reflect the tensions and risks inherent in the CEOâs extraordinarily ambitious plans. Read more âș
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For much of the last decade, the number of new apps launching in Appleâs App Store each year went into a tailspin, falling a whopping 48% between 2016 and 2024, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower. At least that was the case until last year. In 2025, the number of new apps that showed up in the App Store globally suddenly exploded, growing 30% to nearly 600,000 compared... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: A familiar Silicon Valley foe is the mastermind behind those explosive chatbot lawsuitsâą Tech Culture: San Franciscoâs mecca for mad scientists eyes global expansion ⹠Plus, Recommendationsâour weekly pop culture picks: âThe Idiot,â âDune Messiahâ and âThe AI Doc: Or How I Became an ApocaloptimistâMany, many, many people have had much to say in the last several days about OpenAI buying TBPN,... Read more âș
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Near the corner of Sixth and Market streets in downtown San Francisco, Frontier Tower has become a 15-story haven for the wildest and weirdest thinkers in technology. Floor 11 is full of longevity and health tech enthusiasts. The crypto folks are a floor above, with a lounge full of expensive furniture. AI is on floor 9. And the big event there this weekend is down on floor 8, where a... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, is taking âseveral weeksâ of medical leave, according to an internal memo seen by The Information. Simo suffers from a chronic condition called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome which has led her to primarily work from her home in southern ... Read more âș
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Amazon is taking steps to curb misleading markdowns on its retail site ahead of its annual Prime Day sale this summer, steps that could cut down on eye-popping Prime Day deals while addressing complaints that some discounts are overstated. Over the next two months, Amazon will closely track what shoppers have been paying for items in the run-up to the event, according to communications to sellers reviewed by The Information.... Read more âș
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To a degree, Jay Edelson, the class-action litigator who has made himself a constant thorn in the side of Silicon Valleyâs biggest companies, likes to present a laid-back image. No power suits and wing tips for himâhe prefers hoodies and sneakers. His constant companion at his Chicago office is Arlo, a white-and-gray sheepadoodle. On workday breaks, he likes to challenge employees at his firm, Edelson PC, to pickleball on a... Read more âș
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Microsoft hit an internal goal for sales of its Copilot AI software in the first three months of 2026, commercial CEO Judson Althoff told staff on Thursday, according to someone who heard the remarks. Althoff did not disclose what the goal was, but called it âaudacious,â this person said. ... Read more âș
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SpaceX has pushed back the timeline for the next test launch of its next-generation Starship rocket again, with CEO Elon Musk now saying the next test will occur in May. Starship has not launched since October 2025, and still needs several more test launches before it can start making commercial ... Read more âș
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When DeepSeek introduces its next-generation model, likely in the next few weeks, it will mark a milestone in Chinaâs yearslong quest for semiconductor self-sufficiency. Thatâs because the new model, called V4, will be able to run on the latest chips designed by Huawei Technologies. And in preparation for V4âs launch, Chinese tech giants, including Alibaba Group, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings, have placed bulk orders for Huaweiâs upcoming chip totaling hundreds... Read more âș
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Singaporeâs GIC is in talks to lead an investment in database startup Supabase at a valuation of about $10 billion, double the level it raised at last fall, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Supabase is aiming to raise about $500 million in the fundraising round, but the number could change, they said. Read more âș
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A Salesforce executive who oversaw its flagship AI tool, Agentforce, has left the company for up-and-coming rival Sierra, an AI startup founded by OpenAI chair and former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. The executive, Eric Eyken-Sluyters, will serve as Sierraâs president of field operations, ... Read more âș
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Anthropic has acquired AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The startupâs team will be joining Anthropicâs health care life sciences group, which is aimed at developing tools for biotech workflows ranging from drug discovery to clinical commercialization, said the person. Coefficient Bio, started last fall, was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs shuttering of Sora wasnât meant to be the end of its adventures in video generation, it turns out. Instead of using AI to generate videos, OpenAI wants to use videos to drive AI adoption.Thatâs one way of looking at the companyâs rather startling decision on Thursday to buy TBPN, the Silicon Valley talk show that specializes in schmoozy interviews with tech CEOs. The purchase is confounding in a couple... Read more âș
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Blackstone, the worldâs largest alternative asset manager, agreed to acquire a 49% stake in Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a five-year-old data center developer based in Denver, The Information reported Thursday. The agreementâwhich follows a report by The Information last week that Blackstone ... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, strongly believes that the company should stay out of social media, a business she knows intimately from her time running Facebook for Meta Platforms, The Information reported on Thursday. Thatâs in contrast to CEO Sam Altman, who has in the past ... Read more âș
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The AI-driven scramble for compute is still powering red-hot data center acquisitions even as overall technology deals slowed in the first quarter this year. In the latest example, Blackstone, the worldâs largest alternative asset manager, agreed to acquire a 49% stake in Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a five-year-old data center developer based in Denver, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Read more âș
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