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Anissa Gardizy @ The Information · 06/26/2025 23:30 EDT

AI Data Center Powered By Used EV Batteries Launches in Nevada

Redwood Materials, a battery recycling startup run by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, is entering the data center market as demand rises for electricity for artificial intelligence. The company said Thursday it has launched a new business to repurpose used electric-vehicle batteries so they can ... Read more

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 06/26/2025 20:00 EDT

Kalanick May Ride Pony Back to Prominence

Welcome back, Travis Kalanick! We’ve missed you as a generator of news. The New York Times scooped the juicy news today that Kalanick is in talks to get Uber’s backing for a buyout of Chinese autonomous vehicle developer Pony.ai’s U.S. assets. Assuming the deal gets done, it may not involve big dollars—Pony’s market capitalization of $5.2 billion mostly reflects its Chinese robotaxi and autonomous trucking business—but the strategic implications are... Read more

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Natasha Mascarenhas @ The Information · 06/26/2025 19:36 EDT

Forerunner’s Green: ‘Virality’ Won’t Last for Some Consumer AI Startups

For more than a decade, Forerunner Ventures founder Kirsten Green has had a front-row seat on what’s hot or not in consumer startups. After a particularly brutal period for these startups when interest rates spiked, investors like Green are especially optimistic—largely because they’ve seen artificial intelligence breakthroughs create multibillion-dollar consumer businesses for OpenAI and Perplexity.“Typically, there is more money than amazing startups or exponential businesses,” Green said on the eve... Read more

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 06/26/2025 18:57 EDT

Uber in Talks to Back Kalanick on Pony Deal

Uber is reportedly in talks with its co-founder and former CEO, Travis Kalanick, about backing Kalanick’s buyout of Chinese autonomous car developer Pony.ai’s U.S. assets, the New York Times reported. The deal would likely enhance Uber’s strategy of partnering with a variety of robotaxi ... Read more

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Erin Woo @ The Information · 06/26/2025 18:36 EDT

Google Launches Payment Tool for Publishers

Google announced a free tool for helping publishers make money online from surveys, micropayments and other offerings, a sign that Google is responding to publisher complaints that new AI features like AI Overviews on Search are driving down traffic to publisher sites. The tool, called ... Read more

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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information · 06/26/2025 17:23 EDT

A New Startup Runs a Studio to Make Hit Creator Shows

Creator management firms help creators ink brand deals, but they typically don’t also have production facilities to help creators launch projects, such as recurring shows made for YouTube or TikTok.Scott Dunn and Chris Gera are taking a different approach with their new startup Unicorn, which is part talent management firm and part content studio. The two co-founders, who officially launched the company earlier this month, split the ownership rights of... Read more

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Kalley Huang @ The Information · 06/26/2025 17:13 EDT

Meta Hires Four Researchers from OpenAI, Discusses Buying PlayAI

Meta Platforms is hiring four researchers from OpenAI as part of an aggressive push to recruit talent and catch up in artificial intelligence, after stumbles over the past year. Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai are joining Meta from OpenAI’s office in Zurich, Beyer said on ... Read more

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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information · 06/26/2025 16:28 EDT

Instagram, TikTok Working on Smart TV Apps

TikTok and Instagram are working on versions of their apps for connected TVs following YouTube’s growth in the living room, The Information reported. The social media giants see an opportunity to capture some of the ad dollars moving to the streaming TV market. TV apps would give Instagram ... Read more

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Kevin McLaughlin @ The Information · 06/26/2025 15:01 EDT

Benioff Says AI is Handling Up to Half of Salesforce’s Work

Artificial intelligence is handling between 30% and 50% of the work at Salesforce, automating functions like software engineering and customer service, co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff said in an interview with Bloomberg. Benioff’s comments are the latest sign that technology executives are ... Read more

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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information · 06/26/2025 15:01 EDT

TikTok, Instagram Plot TV Apps Following YouTube’s Success

Rejoice, couch potatoes. TikTok and Instagram, following YouTube’s lead, are working on ways to make it easier for viewers to watch videos from their apps on TV screens. The social media giants see an opportunity to grab some of the ad dollars flowing to the streaming TV market. Meta Platforms’ leaders have said they are planning to develop a version of the Instagram app designed for TVs, according to a... Read more

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Valida Pau @ The Information · 06/26/2025 13:37 EDT

CoreWeave in Talks to Buy Core Scientific

CoreWeave is in fresh talks to buy Core Scientific, the Wall Street Journal reported, after the AI cloud provider unsuccessfully bid for the data infrastructure company a year ago. Core Scientific had a market value of around $3.7 billion as of Wednesday close, after the stock had been down 12% ... Read more

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The Information Partnerships @ The Information · 06/26/2025 13:27 EDT

Panel Recap: Building the Internet of Agents

Since ChatGPT’s 2022 debut, businesses have envisioned generative AI creating not just chatbots, but also automated tools capable of complex, multi-step tasks like managing retail returns, generating research reports, and planning travel. This spring, new open-source protocols emerged to facilitate AI agent collaboration. Google introduced the A2A Protocol, while the AGNTCY collective—founded by Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo—launched an infrastructure framework for agent-to-agent collaboration. During a vi Read more

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Aaron Holmes @ The Information 2 place · 06/26/2025 13:00 EDT

Is OpenAI About to Spice Up the Productivity App Market?

As if OpenAI isn’t fighting enough battles, the startup is now eyeing a new front line: productivity apps currently dominated by Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s Workspace.As my colleagues reported this week, OpenAI has been prototyping a new tool within ChatGPT that would let multiple people collaborate on documents and communicate with each other, as well as with the AI. Read more

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Evan Robinson-Johnson @ The Information · 06/26/2025 12:23 EDT

Second Tesla Executive Departs As Sales Lag

Tesla executive and top Elon Musk lieutenant Omead Afshar has left the carmaker, Bloomberg News reported, citing anonymous sources. Afshar oversaw sales and manufacturing operations in North America and Europe, the report said. Tesla’s sales have dipped in both regions, in part due to ... Read more

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Rocket Drew @ The Information · 06/26/2025 10:22 EDT

Will Chains of Thought Stay Readable for Long?

Chains of thought, the “reasoning” steps that many AI models take before delivering their final answer to a query, offer AI developers a precious window into their models’ decision-making. That’s why Google faced a backlash from its users earlier this month when it followed the lead of OpenAI and Anthropic by deciding to hide its models’ chains of thought, showing a summary instead.But even if users could read the raw... Read more

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Qianer Liu @ The Information · 06/26/2025 09:00 EDT

DeepSeek’s Progress Stalled by U.S. Export Controls

The latest round of U.S. chip export controls may have curbed DeepSeek’s rise, at least for now. DeepSeek’s highly anticipated upcoming large language model, R2, may not be as quickly and extensively adopted in China as its predecessor, the wildly popular R1, due to a shortage of Nvidia server chips in the country, according to employees of major Chinese cloud service providers that offer DeepSeek’s models to enterprise customers. The... Read more

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Rocket Drew @ The Information · 06/25/2025 23:01 EDT

Meta Wins AI Copyright Lawsuit Against Authors

Meta did not violate copyright law by training its Llama language models on copyrighted books, a U.S. district court for Northern California ruled Wednesday. Authors including Richard Kadrey, Ta-Nehisi Coates and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee had sued Meta for downloading their books ... Read more

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 06/25/2025 20:00 EDT

Microsoft’s Shaky AI Leadership

Microsoft is on a hot streak. Its stock has soared in recent weeks and so far this year is up 17%, more than that of any other big tech name besides gravity-defying Meta Platforms. What makes Microsoft’s performance so striking is that the stock was not cheap before the rally—based on multiples of earnings and sales—and it is even less cheap now. The premium put on the software giant’s shares... Read more

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Aaron Holmes @ The Information · 06/25/2025 19:39 EDT

OpenAI and Microsoft Spar Over AGI Clause in Contract Talks

As OpenAI seeks Microsoft’s approval to restructure the startup’s for-profit unit so it can go public, the companies have discussed changes to clauses in their contract that would limit Microsoft’s exclusive access to OpenAI’s technology after the startup achieves what it calls artificial ... Read more

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Aaron Holmes @ The Information · 06/25/2025 18:01 EDT

OpenAI and Microsoft Duel Over AGI in High-Stakes Negotiation

For the past three years, Microsoft has introduced a slew of new software tools, such as Copilot, by drawing on artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI. Under the terms of the software giant’s financial backing for OpenAI, Microsoft has access to the tech through 2030. The only risk was that OpenAI could move to cut off access if its board decided the AI had developed to the point where it could... Read more

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