Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside ZaiNar, the secretive startup hoping to power the physical AI era • Policy: Meet the Trump official who wants to deliver a win to prediction markets • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Expanse: The Nannup Four,” “The Infinity Machine” and “Beef”Watching the Elon Musk versus OpenAI trial from inside the courtroom gave me a front-row seat to the AI boom’s... Read more ›
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, The Information reported Tuesday. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to ... Read more ›
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The U.S. will impose new tariffs on Chinese semiconductor imports in June 2027, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday. Those tariffs will stay at zero for the next 18 months, giving American companies a grace period before costs rise. The decision to hold off on imposing the chip tariffs ... Read more ›
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Motive Technologies, whose software helps companies in industries such as logistics and construction manage their physical operations, grew its revenue by 22% to $327 million in the nine months ended September 30th, the company revealed Tuesday in a securities filing ahead of its planned initial ... Read more ›
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When Bloomberg reported earlier this month that ServiceNow was considering an acquisition of the cybersecurity startup Armis for more than $7 billion, shares of the enterprise software firm fell 11%, erasing $20 billion in market capitalization.But ServiceNow gritted its teeth and signed the deal anyway, as it announced Tuesday. Read more ›
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Motive Technologies, which makes AI-powered subscription software for companies to manage their physical operations, grew its revenue by 22% to $327 million in the nine months ended September 30th, the company revealed Tuesday in a now-public regulatory filing ahead of its planned initial public ... Read more ›
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The eye-popping $100 billion of capital OpenAI wants in a new funding round has everyone wondering where that kind of cash might come from. The round would value the company at about $750 billion prior to the cash infusion, we’ve reported. U.S. financial investors—including big retail fund managers that back private startups—are likely to supply just a fraction of the total, say $10 billion, because even those with hundreds of... Read more ›
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to understand how their applications are performing and allows them to spot disruptions and outages. The deal would bring Snowflake into closer competition with... Read more ›
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On Friday, Aaron and Kevin’s article about Salesforce calling out the ingrained limitations of large language models struck a major nerve, as have our other in-depth articles about Salesforce AI challenges this year.Business people saw the piece as further evidence that marketing of generative AI got ahead of what the technology could actually do. Software engineers largely responded to us (and on X) with some version of “duh, how is... Read more ›
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The U.S. Department of Defense will add xAI’s Grok to its artificial intelligence service for military and civilian employees early next year, the department said, alongside models from other AI firms. The service, called genAI.mil, launched earlier this month with only Google’s Gemini model ... Read more ›
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The enterprise software firm ServiceNow plans to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. The price is a step up in valuation for Armis, which had raised money last month at a $6.1 billion valuation. ServiceNow thinks the deal will help bolster its ... Read more ›
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This year has been a big one for AI coding startup acquisitions. Who can forget the dramatic Google-Windsurf-Cognition saga from this summer? And this month alone, Anthropic acquired developer tool startup Bun and Cursor bought code review startup Graphite.Another coding deal is sneaking in before the end of the year. ClickUp, a $4 billion-valuation enterprise software startup, is acquiring AI coding startup Codegen, the companies told The Information exclusively. The... Read more ›
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More than two-thirds of this year’s tech initial public offerings are trading below their listing prices, a poor reception that is casting doubt on the prospects for companies hoping to hit the market next year. The exceptions are the eagerly awaited deals from giants such as SpaceX and Anthropic. Among this year’s stumbles were venture-backed firms such as Klarna, StubHub and Navan, which had billions of dollars wiped off their... Read more ›
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Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, has raised $35 million for his startup Architect Financial Technologies, which offers a global perpetual futures exchange. The round, led by Miami International and Tioga Capital, values the company at $187 million, according to a person familiar ... Read more ›
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The crypto world has gotten some early Christmas presents. The Securities and Exchange Commission has dismissed some Biden-era lawsuits, and the industry has helped push through landmark stablecoin legislation. Crypto companies have also made strides on a lingering problem: access to the mainstream financial system. But that is still a bottleneck for the industry.First, the wins. This month, Circle and Ripple were among five crypto firms that won national trust... Read more ›
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Alphabet said Monday that it agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power for $4.75 billion in cash plus existing debt, as the Google parent looks for more ways to power AI. Alphabet already took a minority stake in Intersect last December when the data center operator announced a ... Read more ›
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More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud computing service that could rival Amazon Web Services, he has backed away from competing with such cloud providers and last week reorganized his company’s cloud team, according to several people with knowledge of the organizational change and an internal memo about it. The restructuring, shared with some employees in a memo last week, reassigned... Read more ›
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Coinbase said it is buying The Clearing Company, a less than one-year old prediction market startup, bringing a team of specialized talent to the prediction business it launched last week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Clearing Company, founded in March and based in San Francisco, ... Read more ›
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Erebor, the new crypto-friendly bank backed by Anduril’s founder Palmer Luckey, has raised $350 million at a $4.35 billion valuation led by Lux Capital, Axios reported. Erebor, also backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, is set to join a small but growing number of banks, such as Lead Bank and ... Read more ›
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Tech titans from Elon Musk to SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son have envisioned humanoid robots working next to people in factories, schools and homes. Realizing that future will require humanoid makers to assure their human customers that the robots won’t harm them. To help ease those concerns, robotics companies are working on a set of standards that would guide how humanoids can be safely put to work in industrial settings. That process,... Read more ›
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You’re about to start hearing a lot about data center delays. In fact, executives and investors I’ve been speaking with expect this will be one of the defining themes of 2026, as delays separate world-class operators from the rest of the pack. But to understand what this will actually mean for the artificial intelligence buildout, it helps to be precise about the types of delays the industry is facing and... Read more ›
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