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Stephanie Palazzolo @ The Information · 05/07/2026 19:33 EDT

Ex-OpenAI Researcher’s Six-Week-Old Startup Targets Funding at $4 Billion Valuation

Nvidia’s investment spree in startups that use its AI chips has stoked traditional venture capital firms’ interest in those companies. That has paved the way for brand-new startups taking on Anthropic and OpenAI to raise back-to-back funding rounds, sometimes in a matter of weeks. In the latest example, Core Automation, an AI model developer founded in late March by ex-OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek, is aiming to raise between $300 million... Read more

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Jason Dean @ The Information · 05/07/2026 18:33 EDT

Cloudlare Cites AI in Cutting a Fifth of Its Workforce

Cloudflare said it is cutting about a fifth of its workforce, joining a growing list of tech companies that have cited AI as a reason to slash jobs. The company, whose content delivery network is used by many of the world’s websites, announced the plans on Thursday as it reported quarterly ... Read more

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Yueqi Yang @ The Information · 05/07/2026 17:10 EDT

Coinbase Revenue Fell 31% as Crypto Market Slumps

Coinbase, the biggest U.S. crypto exchange, reported first-quarter revenue of $1.4 billion, down 31% from a year ago amid a crypto market downturn. Shares fell 5% in after-hour trading. The company’s net loss in the quarter was $394 million, down from a net profit of $65.6 million a year ago but ... Read more

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Anissa Gardizy @ The Information · 05/07/2026 16:44 EDT

CoreWeave Reports $100 Billion Backlog

CoreWeave’s revenue roughly doubled in the first quarter to $2 billion, while its operating loss jumped to $144 million. But the cloud provider said its revenue backlog has reached nearly $100 billion, up from $67 billion at the end of last year. The metric, which represents demand that has not ... Read more

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Amir Efrati @ The Information · 05/07/2026 16:17 EDT

Broadcom Shares Dip After Report On $18 Billion Financing Snag In OpenAI Chip Deal

Broadcom’s stock dropped 2% following a report in The Information about an $18 billion financing snag in the chipmaker’s custom AI processor deal with OpenAI. Shares have partly recovered since then. Broadcom has stipulated it will only finance the initial phase of production if Microsoft agrees ... Read more

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 05/07/2026 16:17 EDT

Airbnb’s Revenue Growth Accelerates to 18%

Airbnb’s revenue growth accelerated to 18% in the first quarter, from 10% in the previous two quarters, although the accommodation hosting service projected slightly slower growth for the second quarter. Airbnb projected revenue would grow between 14% to 16% in the second quarter. The ... Read more

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Julia Hornstein @ The Information · 05/07/2026 15:32 EDT

Anti-Drone AI Startup in Talks for $2 Billion Valuation

Allen Control Systems, a four-year-old startup building an autonomous weapons station that can shoot down drones, is aiming to raise new funding at a valuation of $2 billion before the investment, according to two people with knowledge of the efforts. The startup is targeting a round size of roughly $200 million, the people said. The company’s target valuation would be over 14 times its last round, a remarkable increase even... Read more

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Kevin McLaughlin @ The Information · 05/07/2026 14:14 EDT

Datadog Shares Jump 30% After CEO Says AI is Boosting Sales

Datadog reported revenue grew 32% to more than $1 billion in its March quarter—up 7% from last year—and raised its full-year projection to 26% growth, from the 20% it issued a few months ago. Shares of Datadog rose around 30% after its earnings report, suggesting investors’ fears about AI’s ... Read more

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Anissa Gardizy @ The Information · 05/07/2026 14:09 EDT

OpenAI’s AI Chip Deal With Broadcom Hits $18 Billion Financing Snag

When OpenAI and chip designer Broadcom announced last fall that they would make custom artificial intelligence chips together, they positioned it as a done deal. The companies said the deal would bring enough chips online before 2030 to consume 10 gigawatts of power, equivalent to five Hoover Dams’ worth of electricity, in a bid to lessen OpenAI’s costly dependence on Nvidia hardware. What they didn’t say was that they hadn’t... Read more

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Aaron Holmes @ The Information · 05/07/2026 13:30 EDT

Microsoft Cuts Copilot Bloat

After Microsoft bought the rights to use OpenAI’s technology for free, Microsoft developed a case of Copilot fever, launching Copilot-branded AI features in dozens of products, from Office and Bing to PowerBI and Dynamics. Microsoft appears to be dialing it back a bit, seemingly in response to complaints from customers that the Copilots are unnecessary or annoying. This week, for instance, newly appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Gaming... Read more

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Leo Schwartz @ The Information · 05/07/2026 12:05 EDT

Treasury Department Demands Binance Compliance After Iran Crypto Reports

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has privately demanded that Binance comply with a monitoring program U.S. regulators imposed on the crypto exchange in 2023, when it pleaded guilty to charges related to sanctions and anti–money-laundering violations, The Information has learned. The Treasury Department’s request—which it sent to Binance in a letter in the past few weeks—comes in the wake of recent reports that more than $1 billion flowed through... Read more

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Anissa Gardizy @ The Information · 05/07/2026 10:00 EDT

Why Musk is Giving xAI’s Servers to Anthropic; AI Video-App Developer Reka Acquires Video-Generating Startup

OpenAI and Anthropic’s servers are generally bursting at the seams, while xAI’s mountain of servers aren’t as busy, as we and others recently reported. That’s burning a multibillion-dollar hole in the pocket of new xAI owner SpaceX, which is trying to go public soon and is sure to receive tremendous scrutiny over its AI-related losses.So after xAI recently struck a deal to offload server capacity to AI coding assistant Cursor,... Read more

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Rocket Drew @ The Information · 05/07/2026 09:01 EDT

How Elon Musk’s Team is Struggling to Prove His Case in Court

Elon Musk’s lawyers are close to resting their case against OpenAI, but his path to winning a blockbuster legal victory looks steeper than when the trial began, according to lawyers following the case. The Musk team is expected to wrap up its presentation by Monday, after nearly two weeks trying to prove his claim that OpenAI’s other co-founders “stole a charity.” The testimony so far has followed a pattern, with... Read more

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Laura Mandaro @ The Information · 05/06/2026 20:21 EDT

Anthropic’s Amodei Says ‘80X’ Revenue, Usage Increase Surprised Company

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Wednesday that an 80-fold jump in revenue and customers’ AI use in the first quarter took the company by surprise. “We tried to plan very well for a world of 10x growth per year,” he said on stage during the company’s Code With Claude developer conference in San ... Read more

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 05/06/2026 20:00 EDT

Elon Musk’s xAI Is Becoming a Cloud Firm

Is xAI the next CoreWeave? SpaceX’s announcement on Wednesday that its xAI unit had struck a deal to supply computing capacity to Anthropic comes a couple of weeks after xAI struck a similar deal with AI coding startup Cursor. Last we checked, AI firms with leading models need all the computing capacity they can get, which means they’re constantly looking for capacity from others. Renting out their own capacity is... Read more

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Rocket Drew @ The Information · 05/06/2026 17:26 EDT

Musk Ally Testifies He Once Offered Sam Altman a Tesla Board Seat

Elon Musk once offered Sam Altman a seat on Tesla’s board of directors as part of discussions about OpenAI possibly joining Musk’s electric vehicle company, a Musk ally testified on Wednesday. Shivon Zilis, who has worked for several of Musk’s ventures and has four children with the tech tycoon, ... Read more

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 05/06/2026 17:09 EDT

Snap’s Ad Revenue Growth Slowed to 3% in First Quarter

Snap’s revenue growth accelerated to 12% in the first quarter, lifted by strong growth in the social media firm’s small subscriptions business. Advertising, which contributes the bulk of Snap’s revenue, grew just 3%, a slower rate than the previous quarter. The anemic growth in advertising ... Read more

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 05/06/2026 16:44 EDT

Warner Bros Discovery’s Revenues Fall 3% in March Quarter

Warner Bros. Discovery’s revenues fell 3% in the first quarter, the entertainment firm reported Wednesday, highlighting the challenges facing the Ellison family’s Paramount Skydance, which plans to buy WBD later this year. WBD’s streaming operations, including HBO Max, reported 7% higher ... Read more

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Anita Ramaswamy @ The Information · 05/06/2026 16:43 EDT

Nvidia Inks Deal To Invest Up To $3.2 Billion in Corning

Nvidia is partnering with Corning, which manufactures glass used in smartphones as well as optical fiber and hardware components for data centers, to build three new factories in North Carolina and Texas focused on optical technologies. As part of the arrangement, Corning has issued Nvidia ... Read more

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 05/06/2026 16:31 EDT

DoorDash reported 33% growth in revenue, to $4 billion, a slowdown from the fourth quarter but still several percentage points higher than the growth rate the food-delivery firm had reported for most of last year. The strong growth reflected the acquisition in October of the European ... Read more

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