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Anita Ramaswamy @ The Information · 01/22/2026 16:42 EDT

Intel’s Sales Slump Persists Despite AI Growth

Intel’s fourth quarter revenue fell 4%, the chip firm reported Thursday, at the high end of the company’s projections. The result reflected a 7% decline in its largest unit, through which it sells CPUs for use in personal computers and other consumer products. Intel stock, which has more than ... Read more

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Yueqi Yang @ The Information · 01/22/2026 14:52 EDT

Caroline Ellison, Former Alameda CEO, Released From Jail

Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive officer of Alameda Research and ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, was released from jail Wednesday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmate record. Ellison was sentenced for two years in prison, after she pleaded guilty to fraud in 2023 ... Read more

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Yueqi Yang @ The Information · 01/22/2026 14:50 EDT

BitGo Jumps in First Crypto IPO This Year

BitGo, a crypto custodian, opened up 25% on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, becoming the first crypto company to go public this year. The company and its shareholders raised $213 million in its initial public offering, at a price of $18 per share, giving it a valuation of about $2.1 ... Read more

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Theo Wayt @ The Information · 01/22/2026 14:25 EDT

Tesla Starts Limited Robotaxi Rides Without Backup Humans in Austin

Tesla has started offering rides to customers in a few of its Robotaxi vehicles without backup human supervisors for the first time, the company’s top AI executive said on Thursday. The move in Austin is a key initial step toward catching up with Alphabet’s Waymo, which offers autonomous rides ... Read more

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Amir Efrati @ The Information · 01/22/2026 13:30 EDT

OpenAI Plans to Take a Cut of Customers’ AI-Aided Discoveries

Hi! If you’re finding value in our Applied AI newsletter, I encourage you to consider subscribing to The Information. It contains exclusive reporting on the most important stories in tech, like this story from Aaron and Wayne on Apple software chief Craig Federighi‘s cautious approach to improving the company’s AI standing. Save up to $250 on your first year of access.Even as OpenAI begins a herculean effort to generate billions... Read more

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Anita Ramaswamy @ The Information · 01/22/2026 12:06 EDT

Intel is Now Pricier Than TSMC: That Makes No Sense

Intel’s stock price has more than doubled in the past five months, since President Donald Trump announced the U.S. government would buy a 10% stake in the ailing chip manufacturer, followed by similar investments from SoftBank and Nvidia. Investors are betting the new capital, coupled with a surge in AI demand, will help resuscitate the company. Those expectations will collide with reality when Intel reports fourth-quarter earnings late this afternoon,... Read more

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Theo Wayt @ The Information · 01/22/2026 11:27 EDT

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Sell Optimus Robots By End of 2027

Tesla plans to start selling its Optimus humanoid robots to the general public by the end of 2027, CEO Elon Musk said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. By then, Musk said Tesla expects the robots to be “high reliability, high safety.” While Musk has promised that the Optimus ... Read more

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Stephanie Palazzolo @ The Information · 01/22/2026 10:00 EDT

Why Some Researchers at OpenAI, Thinking Machines and Amazon Want to Change How LLMs Are Trained

It seems like every AI researcher these days has lots of ideas around how to combat major shortcomings in the field, such as the “split-brain problem” (in which a model can incorrectly answer a question just because of the way the question is phrased), by developing new models that do “continual learning,” for instance.AI researchers also tell me they’re interested in revamping the model training process. Some researchers, including Amazon’s... Read more

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Ann Gehan @ The Information 2 place · 01/22/2026 09:53 EDT

PayPal Acquires Startup To Boost AI Shopping Efforts

PayPal said Thursday it would acquire the e-commerce startup Cymbio, which makes software that helps brands make their product catalogs available to AI search apps and agents. The deal is aimed at helping PayPal quickly build up more features to help merchants make sales through AI chatbots like ... Read more

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Wayne Ma @ The Information 2 place · 01/22/2026 09:00 EDT

With Google Deal, Apple’s Craig Federighi Plots a Cautious Course in AI

Last fall, Apple’s software chief, Craig Federighi, delivered a warm message to a meeting of the company’s combined software and AI groups. Federighi said he was excited about deeper collaboration between his software team and Apple’s AI group. But then came Federighi’s criticism. He added that he liked moving fast and feeling the “wind at his back,” but in recent years he had felt Apple hadn’t been moving as quickly... Read more

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Jing Yang @ The Information · 01/22/2026 06:39 EDT

Alibaba Prepares Chipmaking Unit for IPO

Alibaba Group is preparing to list its chipmaking unit T-Head, taking advantage of strong investor demand for companies developing AI processors to reduce China’s reliance on Nvidia, Bloomberg reported. Alibaba will first restructure the unit as a business partly owned by employees, before ... Read more

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Sri Muppidi @ The Information · 01/22/2026 00:20 EDT

Anthropic Lowered Gross Margin Projection as Costs to Run AI Rose

Anthropic last month projected it would generate a 40% gross profit margin from selling AI to businesses and application developers in 2025,  10 percentage points lower than its earlier optimistic expectations, The Information reported late Wednesday. The lower-than-expected ... Read more

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Catherine Perloff @ The Information · 01/21/2026 23:22 EDT

Amazon Launches AI Assistant For One Medical Customers

Amazon-owned primary care chain One Medical said it is launching an AI health assistant, a move that comes on the heels of similar healthcare chatbot announcements from Anthropic and OpenAI. One Medical members, who pay an annual fee for virtual and in person health care services, can use the ... Read more

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Sri Muppidi @ The Information · 01/21/2026 21:19 EDT

Anthropic Lowers Profit Margin Projection as Revenue Skyrockets

Anthropic last month projected it would generate a 40% gross profit margin from selling AI to businesses and application developers in 2025, according to two people with knowledge of its financials. That margin was 10 percentage points lower than its earlier optimistic expectations, though it’s still a big improvement from the year before. The lower-than-expected gross profit margin resulted from the costs of running Anthropic models for paying customers, in... Read more

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 01/21/2026 20:00 EDT

Oracle Should (but Likely Won’t) Cut Its Dividend

Here’s a question: How much are big tech companies cutting back on sending money to shareholders as they ramp up their AI development spending? It’s a good time to ask: On Friday, Oracle is due to pay out its latest quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share. That will amount to $1.4 billion going out the door, which Oracle can ill afford. After all, the software and cloud firm burned... Read more

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Wayne Ma @ The Information · 01/21/2026 18:49 EDT

Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin in Challenge to OpenAI, Meta

Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin that could be released as early as 2027, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The device would position Apple to compete more effectively with OpenAI, which is planning its own AI-powered devices, and Meta Platforms, which is ... Read more

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Aaron Tilley @ The Information · 01/21/2026 18:33 EDT

Apple Plans a Conversational Siri, Discusses Google TPU Deal

Apple plans to bring more conversational capabilities to Siri, turning it more into a chatbot like ChatGPT, Bloomberg reported. The update, codenamed Campos, will take advantage of Google’s Gemini AI model, part of a deal Apple announced with Google last week, the news outlet said. The ... Read more

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Erin Woo @ The Information · 01/21/2026 17:14 EDT

OpenAI Names Former TML Staffer Zoph to Oversee Enterprise Push

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company’s push to sell AI products to businesses, as part of a broader reorganization across the company, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff on Wednesday. Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief operating officer, will transition out of leading product and engineering for OpenAI’s business of selling to other enterprises but... Read more

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Laura Mandaro @ The Information · 01/21/2026 16:05 EDT

Yelp to Buy AI Agent Startup for $300 Million 

Recommendation app Yelp on Wednesday said it agreed to acquire AI agent startup Hatch for $300 million, or roughly 12 times the startup’s annual recurring revenue. Hatch charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments. Yelp, which has a ... Read more

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Erin Woo @ The Information · 01/21/2026 15:54 EDT

Technical Committee Members Named in Google Search Remedy

Tammy Savage, a former Microsoft general manager; Gerry Campbell, a longtime search executive who has worked at AOL and Alta Vista; and John Abowd, a professor emeritus of economics, statistics and data science at Cornell University were named in a filing from the Department of Justice on ... Read more

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