Here’s a simple but smart idea I heard about last week: Ask all your employees to use AI for every possible task for a week and see what tasks it’s useful or not useful for.That suggestion came from Rebecca Hinds, head of Asana’s Work Innovation Lab, at our annual Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference, during a discussion on generative AI and hybrid work. Her statement might sound obvious... Read more ›
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As CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey was widely panned for his hands-off style, seen as contributing to the company’s uneven growth and slow-to-evolve culture, which paved the way for last year’s takeover by Elon Musk. Dorsey’s other public company, Block, originally known as Square, has a whole different problem: Its divisions feud so intensely they can’t agree on even minor points of cooperation. For example, last year staffers from Square,... Read more ›
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After two years of boasting of plans to overtake Tesla, the world's major automakers are pulling back, spooked by flagging electric vehicle sales. This week, we look at the reality that the dual age of fossil fuels and combustion cars will be with us longer than many thought.For more than two years, Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen have followed a similar script: In just a few years, each company claimed,... Read more ›
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.It’s been 10 years since the movie “Her” introduced us to a queasy future in which a man falls in love with his AI-powered digital assistant. Guess who loved that movie? Yup, Sam Altman, the father of ChatGPT. “The things ‘Her’ got right—like the whole interaction models of how people use AI—that was incredibly prophetic,” he said earlier this summer. So it should come as no... Read more ›
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“There’s been 10 years of women that are championing other women,” singer-songwriter Katy Perry said to The Information CEO Jessica Lessin and a crowd of 232 women at The Estate Yountville in Napa Valley, Calif. “The positive of social media is that it took the gatekeeper away.…It’s up to you to become that entrepreneur that you want to wanna be.” Perry was the headlining speaker at The Information’s Women in... Read more ›
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Tech giants usually prefer to avoid Washington politicians and bureaucrats. Congressional hearings, Justice Department lawsuits and Securities and Exchange Commission probes are no fun. But a new generation of tech companies is finding governments are more likely to be customers than adversaries. That’s clear from the under-the-hood financial details we got this week on startups Anduril and Shield AI, which are selling a growing array of autonomous software and war-fighting... Read more ›
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Some observers saw Sam Bankman-Fried’s decision to testify in his trial on fraud charges as a Hail Mary pass. But he might not have had any other choice. Bankman-Fried began testifying before the jury Friday morning, the third witness called by his lawyers, following brief appearances by his Bahamas lawyer and an expert witness who testified about FTX accounts. Essentially, though, the former FTX CEO, who faces up to 110... Read more ›
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People often ask me how being a founder changes how I report on founders. Let me count the ways! I got the chance to discuss some of them as the gang debated the state of founderhood and some prominent founders of the moment. I hope you enjoy. Apple Spotify YouTube Read more ›
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In November 2020, marketing consultant Sarah Eade Bengard was in St. Barts, mingling at a venture capitalist friend’s beach party, when she noticed something strange. A number of guests had small circular sensors dotting their upper arms. They were continuous glucose monitors, medical devices usually reserved for diabetics who need to track blood-sugar spikes and plunges. “It was definitely the type of group that cares a lot about fitness,” Bengard... Read more ›
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The Information’s readers are using artificial intelligence to create voice-overs for TikTok videos, summarize legal documents and maintain their lawns, among other tasks, they say in interviews.In our recent survey of 593 subscribers, almost 90% said they use AI, and two-thirds of that group said they are paying for one or more generative AI services (see the full survey results here). I spent the week talking to readers about how... Read more ›
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In late September, a stakeholder in Humane received a humbled message from the startup. The Information had just broken the news that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had been secretly meeting with renowned former Apple designer Jony Ive. The duo was dreaming up the “iPhone of artificial intelligence,” according to later reports, and had been speaking with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son about funding their plans. Unfortunately for Humane, the idea sounded... Read more ›
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Amazon’s artificial intelligence growth is a sight to behold. No, the company didn’t report how much money it’s making from AI, and it probably won’t anytime soon. We’re talking about the expanded use of AI buzzwords in its earnings release. References to Bedrock and CodeWhisperer—two generative AI products from Amazon—rose 67% and 200% in the third-quarter release compared to the second quarter, while mentions of Anthropic—the hot AI startup Amazon... Read more ›
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It’s Kalley Huang, reporting from The Information’s Women in Tech, Media and Finance Summit in Yountville, Calif. Creators and influencers are increasingly launching their own companies to expand their audiences and to generate revenue beyond sponsorships. But their names aren’t enough to sell offline brands, said Erin and Sara Foster, the acting and writing sisters who host “The World’s First Podcast,” and have co-founded clothing retailer Favorite Daughter.“Look at Kim... Read more ›
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The coming wave of fintech failures. How to “own your story” while working for a leader like Elon Musk. A regulatory crackdown on artificial intelligence. And the repercussions of bad press on high-profile female founders. These are some of the topics discussed by speakers at The Information’s Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference in Napa Valley, Calif., Thursday. Jackie Reses, CEO of venture-backed Lead Bank that provides financial services... Read more ›
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You might have noticed that Thrive Capital has made a number of bold bets this year, leading massive investments in Stripe, Ramp and OpenAI once again, even as other late-stage investors have pulled back. Special-purpose vehicles helped buttress the firm’s Stripe investment, while lowering the risk of its core fund’s performance. The same could be true of its OpenAI investment.Last week, I reported that Thrive Capital is leading a deal... Read more ›
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Women founders who started their own venture firms say the autonomy has allowed them to alter stubborn industry practices—a benefit that’s worth the risks of failure. “If I'm going to do this, I'm going to build it from the ground up,” said Rachel Holt of her decision to co-found early-stage venture fund Construct Capital in 2020, after more than eight years at Uber. She said “challenges” at existing VC firms... Read more ›
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Congratulations if you already knew that Intel, the American chip pioneer, had started selling artificial intelligence-related software—as opposed to just hardware—to businesses that want to build generative AI apps. I had no idea myself until I wrote a story on Wednesday about Intel expanding that effort. It’s planning to announce the move sometime in the coming months.Before you laugh off the project due to Intel’s also-ran status in the great... Read more ›
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Anduril, the defense tech startup that says it’s trying to build the “Lockheed Martin of the 21st century,” laid out lofty goals to investors early last year. It set its sights on $1 billion in annual revenue by 2026, five times its expectation for $200 million of revenue in 2022. Achieving that ambition will be expensive. The six-year-old startup, valued last year at $8.5 billion by Founders Fund and others,... Read more ›
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A U.S. official said a new Chinese restriction on the export of graphite is a warning that Beijing could also crack down on other materials vital to the electric vehicle industry. Giulia Siccardo, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s office of manufacturing and energy supply chains, said U.S. auto companies should rethink their reliance on Chinese supplies “that look very cheap and abundant right now [but] may not always... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has 34.1 billion reasons to be satisfied with the social network’s third-quarter result, released Wednesday afternoon. That’s how many dollars Meta reported as revenue, near the top end of the company’s guidance, and representing 23% growth over the year-earlier revenue line. That’s a return to the kind of growth rate we saw routinely from Meta before 2022, when a combination of Apple’s restrictions on ad... Read more ›
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