Meta Platformsâ plans to improve the artificial intelligence features in its apps could lead the company to partner with Google or OpenAI, two of its biggest AI rivals. Leaders in Metaâs new AI organization, Meta Superintelligence Labs, have discussed using Googleâs Gemini model to provide conversational, text-based answers to questions that users enter into Meta AI, the social media giantâs main chatbot, a person familiar with the conversations said. Those... Read more âș
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OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information, is considering multiple investment offers valuing the three-year-old startup at $6 billion, nearly double its private valuation from a financing just one month ago, according to three people involved in the potential deal. The funding conversations are still in their early stages. If a deal happens, the company is likely to raise more than $100 million, one of... Read more âș
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As we wrap up for the Labor Day weekend, one question has persisted through this week: Why is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang so determined to demonstrate his need for the Chinese market? With Nvidiaâs ability to sell its artificial intelligence chips to China currently in limboâcaught between U.S. and Chinese government restrictionsâanother CEO might be playing down Chinaâs importance to the company. Nvidia is growing like gangbusters without China, so... Read more âș
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Elon Muskâs xAI sued a former employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets when the engineer left to join OpenAI. The lawsuit accuses former xAI engineer Xuechen Li of downloading information about âcutting-edge AI technologies with features superior to those offered by ChatGPTâ days before he ... Read more âș
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Taz Patel, the head of advertising and shopping at AI search engine startup Perplexity, has left the company after nine months, according to Adweek. Patel joined the startup last December to help it expand its business beyond subscriptions to its AI-powered search engine. Since then, Perplexity ... Read more âș
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Flip, a video-sharing social media app that at one point tried to challenge TikTokâs dominance, has shut down, according to a message to users and the companyâs website. Flip didnât immediately respond to a request for comment. The social commerce app raised over $300 million from investors ... Read more âș
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Much is known about the pastimes of the worldâs wealthiest person, Elon Musk. They include playing videogames, fathering children and reading Douglas Adams novels. Over the past couple of years, Musk has picked up another hobby: waging war against Sam Altman, an ex-friend with whom he co-founded OpenAI a decade ago as a nonprofit. And Muskâs case in one critical lawsuit may not be as frivolous as it might appear... Read more âș
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DeepSeek, one of Chinaâs leading artificial intelligence developers, has decided to use Huawei Technologiesâ AI chips to train some of its AI models, a sign it is reducing its reliance on Nvidia chips, according to three people with knowledge of the effort. The move follows pressure by the Chinese government on local tech companies to use locally made chips more. DeepSeek continues to use Nvidia chips for its largest and... Read more âș
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Chinaâs top economic planner warned against excess competition and wasteful investment in the countryâs artificial intelligence industry. Zhang Kailin, an official at Chinaâs National Development and Reform Commission, said at a briefing on Friday that the country would avoid âdisorderly ... Read more âș
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Alibaba Group said its revenue from cloud computing services in the quarter through June grew 26%, boosted by triple-digit sales growth for artificial intelligence-related products. The solid cloud revenue growth came after Alibaba in April launched Qwen3, the latest generation of its ... Read more âș
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When the artificial intelligence boom began a few years ago, investors flocked to startups that helped businesses transform and store proprietary data in a format AI could understand, known as a vector database. The technology allowed businesses to use a customized AI chatbot to search or analyze their customer and sales information. Since then, though, AI providers such as Amazon Web Services, Anthropic and OpenAI have baked such technology into... Read more âș
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Every day this week, we and other close watchers of Google have been holding our breath, waiting for Judge Amit Mehta of the federal court in Washington to issue a ruling on how Googleâs illegal search monopoly should be remedied. Options include a forced divestiture of its Chrome browser (where many Google searches originate), ending Googleâs right to be the exclusive search engine on Appleâs Safari browser, or forcing Google... Read more âș
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Hi, itâs Katie Roof, spending my first week at The Information schmoozing with Europeâs startup leaders at a conference called TechBBQ in Copenhagen. Itâs been close to three years since Iâve been at a tech conference on the Continent, and the difference is palpable. In 2022, there was a panic in the air about a stock sell-off that eventually led to investors slashing the valuations of the regionâs startup darlings.... Read more âș
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a guidance Thursday that would allow a pathway for overseas crypto exchanges to legally accept U.S.-based customers. The guidance could benefit crypto exchanges such as Binance, Bybit, BitGet, which currently ban U.S. users. That means it could ... Read more âș
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We are kicking off todayâs newsletter with some newsâthis time about me. Iâm wrapping up my time at The Information and this will be my last Creator Economy newsletter.Itâs been such a privilege to write this newsletter, host five summits and break news about the creator economy and social media over the past four and a half years. I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how the industry... Read more âș
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Microsoft on Thursday debuted two new large language models it developed over the past year to reduce its reliance on OpenAIâs artificial intelligence in powering Copilot products. Microsoft will start swapping in the new models, dubbed MAI, to power Copilot features in the coming weeks, ... Read more âș
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It was easy to miss last weekâs announcement that Ashley Alexander, a 12-year veteran of Facebook and Instagram, is becoming vice president of health products at OpenAI, with the goal of improving âhealthcare outcomes and access.â Alexanderâs LinkedIn post didnât give clues about exactly what products she will oversee, but itâs not hard to see where this is going. Read more âș
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Last week, we wrote about SerpApi, an Austin-based startup that scrapes Google Search results and offers that data through an application programming interface. Among its customers is OpenAI, which uses SerpApiâs services to ensure its ChatGPT can answer user queries with up-to-date information.Around 40% of SerpApiâs business comes from such AI startups, according to CEO and founder Julien Khaleghy. Aside from OpenAI, they include Cursor, Perplexity and Meta Platforms. Another... Read more âș
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Less than a month from now, a federal court in Virginia will begin hearing an antitrust case that could determine whether Google has to spin off part of its advertising tech business into an independent company. But Google isnât waiting for the decision to help that group become a more viable stand-alone business. Last month, for example, Google staff in the part of the ad tech group that the court... Read more âș
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Rain, a stablecoin-backed card issuer that works with Visa, said it raised $58 million in Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures, just months after its last fundraising round, demonstrating once again investor enthusiasm for crypto startups flowing from congressional passage of stablecoin ... Read more âș
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