The sky’s the limit for valuations for companies like SpaceX, but the venture firms writing the checks have less money in total to spend.Recent data from PitchBook shows how steep the decline in cash is. Fund managers raised $45.7 billion in new funds in the first nine months of the year. At that pace, fundraising is headed for the lowest level since 2017. The number of new funds, meanwhile, is... Read more ›
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SpaceX is on track to generate about $15 billion in revenue this year, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The Elon Musk-led space firm is also expecting to bring in $22 billion to $24 billion next year, with the bulk of revenue coming from its Starlink satellite internet service, according to the ... Read more ›
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All the data centers hastily going up around the country for AI need networking pipes and software for moving data around. A few companies specialize in selling the networking gear, but one company, Arista Networks, stands out as undervalued on Wall Street. Arista has a much higher gross margin—64%—than rival Celestica, whose margin is only 11%. The two companies have been growing at the same rate, although Celestica is projected... Read more ›
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Brookfield, one of largest real estate investors, and Qatar’s more than $500 billion sovereign wealth fund will jointly invest $20 billion to build physical infrastructure for AI in the Gulf nation and abroad, they said Tuesday. The Qatar venture follows similar moves by Saudi Arabia and the ... Read more ›
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Tech analyst Patrick Moorhead cautioned that President Donald Trump’s approval of Nvidia’s sale of H200 chips to China isn’t a “done deal” until Nvidia starts shipping the chips and gets revenue for them. “I don’t know if I take this as reality yet,” Moorhead said in an interview on The ... Read more ›
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Marketing software firm Klaviyo said Tuesday that software executive Chano Fernández will become its co-CEO in January. Fernández will share the top job with cofounder Andrew Bialecki, who has been Klaviyo’s CEO since founding the company in 2012. Klaviyo shares were down nearly 5% Tuesday ... Read more ›
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The competition between AI chatbots has been heating up, with Google’s Gemini nipping at OpenAI’s heels. On Monday, I wrote about how Gemini’s share of weekly mobile app downloads increased in late November following the release of Gemini 3, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower, which says it tracks 5 million consumers globally. Gemini’s growth is also evident on the web. Between August and November, Gemini’s global website... Read more ›
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For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to do just that. As soon as this week, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and a slate of other tech companies are set to announce a new... Read more ›
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Lately, Maura Keller—a Democrat running in Georgia’s 3rd Congressional district in next year’s midterm elections—has been going to community meetings where one topic comes up again and again “almost on a weekly basis”: data centers. It’s not hard to understand why the subject has surged to the fore. Keller has seen the state transform over the past few years into a hub for data centers, as AI companies buy up... Read more ›
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Skild AI, which develops AI foundation models to power robots to perform a variety of tasks, is in talks to raise over $1 billion at a valuation around $14 billion from SoftBank and Nvidia, Reuters reported on Monday. That valuation would be triple the two-year-old startup’s valuation from ... Read more ›
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Tiger Global has announced the launch of a $2.2 billion private investment fund. In a note to investors reviewed by The Information, Tiger Global said the fund is expected to do a first close in March. The new fund is the same size as its venture fund raised in April 2024. Both are a fraction of ... Read more ›
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This could be big news: President Donald Trump said he would allow Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 AI chip to China, in exchange for the U.S. government getting a 25% cut of those sales. That could re-open the Chinese market to Nvidia—if the Chinese government allows its local companies to buy the chips. Chances of that are good. The H200s are for training AI models, and the Chinese government... Read more ›
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Instacart said Monday it would make its app available through ChatGPT Monday, including the ability for shoppers to make purchases through OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature. The payment feature is powered by Stripe, the companies said, although consumers will be able to pay for purchases with ... Read more ›
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Google expects to launch its first AI glasses, including an audio-focused model and one with a built-in display screen, in 2026, the company said in a blog post on Monday. Google is collaborating with Samsung and the glasses companies Warby Parker and Gentle Monster on the hardware. Google will ... Read more ›
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While Google’s Gemini has taken a slightly higher share of weekly mobile app downloads since its latest model, Gemini 3, launched in mid-November, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has maintained its dominance in terms of usage and return users on mobile apps, according to data from intelligence firm Sensor ... Read more ›
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The Trump administration will let Nvidia sell a relatively advanced set of artificial intelligence server chips to China, according to a report in Semafor, ending a debate in Washington about whether to let a geopolitical adversary access state-of-the-art technology from the U.S. According ... Read more ›
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The Ellison family-controlled Paramount Skydance made an all-cash tender offer for Warner Bros. Discovery at $30 a share, or $108.4 billion, coming in over the top of the $27.75 a share cash and stock deal that Netflix and WBD’s board agreed to last week. Unlike the Netflix proposed purchase, ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, check out this story about last week’s Neural Information Processing Systems conference, where a number of researchers cast doubt on some of today’s most popular techniques for improving AI. Some researchers, including at OpenAI, have ideas for new techniques that could produce better results.Other researchers such as David Luan, who leads an Amazon AI research unit, have issue with the order and focus of... Read more ›
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International Business Machines agreed to acquire data streaming firm Confluent for around $11 billion in cash. Confluent provides technology that helps companies manage real-time data streams used in AI models, making it a logical fit for IBM as it looks to boost its software, cloud and AI ... Read more ›
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A small but growing number of artificial intelligence developers at OpenAI, Google and other companies say they’re skeptical that today’s technical approaches to AI will achieve major breakthroughs in biology, medicine and other fields while also managing to avoid making silly mistakes. That was the buzz last week among numerous researchers at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference, a key meetup for people in the field. Some of them believe... Read more ›
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