Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The tech elite are using AI to supercharge their cancer battles • Artificial Intelligence: Should AI and Christianity mix? • Tech Culture: Amid AI backlash, billionaires demand new breed of bodyguard—plus, inside the star-studded Breakthrough Prize gala • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Family Lore,” “The Long Run” and “Scream 7”Let’s get straight to one of the biggest happenings at Google... Read more ›
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Gadi Hutt, a director of product and customer engineering in Amazon’s server-chip design unit, Annapurna Labs, has left the company, according to two people with direct knowledge of the move. Hutt was an early employee at Annapurna Labs, the Israeli chip startup Amazon acquired in 2015 for $350 ... Read more ›
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Microsoft recently suspended new hiring across major divisions, including its Azure cloud and North American sales groups, as the company seeks to offset its investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure, The Information reported. Executives have instructed managers in these ... Read more ›
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Apple is opening the door for other artificial intelligence assistants to directly integrate with its Siri assistant, Bloomberg reported. The change is coming alongside the company’s overhaul of Siri, which is due to be announced in June at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the outlet ... Read more ›
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In the ultracompetitive world of drug development, getting a new medication on the market as fast as possible can have major business implications. There’s perhaps no better recent example than Novo Nordisk, which has generated nearly $100 billion in sales of weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy while trying to fend off competition from Eli Lilly.Now, Novo Nordisk says it’s using AI agents to shorten by weeks or months the... Read more ›
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OpenAI has put plans to allow its ChatGPT chatbot to generate erotica on hold indefinitely, according to a report from the Financial Times. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first teased “adult mode” in ChatGPT last October, saying in a post on X that the release would be part of OpenAI’s “treat adult users ... Read more ›
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Microsoft executives in recent weeks told managers at major divisions, including its Azure cloud and North American sales groups, to suspend new hiring, according to three current employees with direct knowledge of the decision. It’s not uncommon for Microsoft to slow hiring or even lay off staff toward the end of its fiscal year, which ends in June. But Microsoft’s cost-conscious approach reflects a broader attitude throughout tech, as companies... Read more ›
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Anthropic has been on a tear in adding features to its Claude AI agents for coding and other white-collar work. The Claude agents now offer many of the features that turned OpenClaw, an open-source tool for developing personal AI agents, into a sensation.Claude’s new features include the ability to take over a person’s computer to perform complex tasks using any application, which Anthropic launched with great fanfare Monday night; take... Read more ›
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Investments in AI startups such as Mercor and Skild AI helped advance three of 16 finalists in last year’s list of Next General Partners to higher positions, including to the role of general partner in their firms. These promotions reflect how AI continues to dominate venture capital investing. Last year’s finalists can’t credit just AI, however. Increased valuations for defense tech startup Anduril and expense software company Ramp also cast... Read more ›
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A tidal wave of fast-growing AI startups has given venture capitalists many more shots to score winning investments. But competition to invest has never been more intense. That has made the partners who can secure stakes in sought-after startups all the more valuable. The Information asked over two dozen founders and investors about the individuals best positioned to become general partners—the top dealmakers who usually get the biggest share of... Read more ›
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Talk about bad timing. Meta Platforms made a big splash on Tuesday night by disclosing new stock grants for senior executives that fully pay out only if the company’s market capitalization rises above $9.4 trillion by 2031, from $1.5 trillion now. Hours later, on Wednesday, we scooped the news that Meta was laying off hundreds of people. And hours after that, a jury in Los Angeles found Meta and Google’s... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft ruled Wednesday that Musk’s damages expert, an economist at economic consulting firm Berkeley Research Group, is allowed to present his testimony at trial. The economist, C. Paul Wazzan, found that ... Read more ›
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Sierra, an AI startup led by ex-Salesforce CEO Bret Taylor, unveiled a new product called Ghostwriter that builds AI agents for tasks such as customer service based on natural language prompts. While other software providers offer similar tools, the self-service aspect of ... Read more ›
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Blackstone is close to a deal to buy Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a major U.S. data center developer that builds campuses for large cloud providers, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The terms of the deal couldn’t be learned, but the company would likely be valued at more than $10 billion, including its debt, people familiar with its financials said. The talks are ongoing, and the acquisition... Read more ›
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SpaceX is likely to list the investment banks that are advising it on its mega initial public offering in alphabetical order on the prospectus, according to three people familiar with the process. That’s a departure from the norm, where the most senior bank is listed first on the filing in what ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube harmed a user’s mental health through negligence, defective product design and a failure to warn of the dangers of their products, a jury found on Wednesday. The decision was a landmark that is likely to affect the outcome in thousands of other cases alleging ... Read more ›
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Amazon said customers can return items they bought on the commerce giant’s site at over 1,500 FedEx Office locations nationwide. Shoppers will be able to drop off unboxed items and won’t pay fees on the return. Encouraging customers to bring returns to drop-off points instead of having them ... Read more ›
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Shares of US space companies rose Wednesday after The Information reported Tuesday night that SpaceX is aiming to file its initial public offering prospectus with regulators as soon as this week. The report said that advisers involved in the preparation predict the company could try to raise ... Read more ›
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Please join The Information at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 27, for The Information’s “Financing the AI Revolution” forum. Hear from top executives and investors on how the rapid build-out of AI is reshaping tech, finance and capital markets. Learn more here.There’s supply and demand for AI computing power and there’s supply and demand for AI itself. The two should be linked, but that hasn’t always appeared... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s major reorg, the company’s new "Spud” model and its decision to shut down the Sora video app and application programming interface, which we scooped on Tuesday. (For what the company’s organizational structure looks like now after the changes, check out our updated OpenAI Org Chart.)The latter decision seems in line with product chief Fidji Simo’s mandate... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is launching Meta Small Business, a company-wide initiative to drive AI adoption and support entrepreneurship, Axios reported. In a memo sent to employees on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staffers that “it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses” in the ... Read more ›
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