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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Stock market investors fell in love with crypto this year, setting off a big rally in public markets. Now the buying frenzy has rebounded back to privately held companies like crypto exchange Kraken and payments firm Ripple, whose valuations have soared. Kraken, one of the oldest crypto exchanges, is raising money at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter, after getting $500 million in new... Read more ›
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Nvidia said Thursday it signed a deal to sell 50,000 graphics processing units to Samsung Electronics to help the South Korean company with its chip design and manufacturing. The deal, estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, was announced during a visit by Nvidia CEO ... Read more ›
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Travel software firm Navan, which weathered a pandemic, name change and government shutdown on its path to an initial public offering, had a disappointing start as a public company. Shares fell 20% on the first day. Its earliest investors still made big gains on paper though. Investor Oren Zeev and his affiliated funds, which invested $150 million starting with Navan’s seed round in 2015, had about a $1 billion stake... Read more ›
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Globalstar has talked to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other potential suitors about buying the satellite company, Bloomberg reported. The news of the sale talks follows a report from The Information saying that Globalstar’s chairman James Monroe had discussed the possibility of selling the company for ... Read more ›
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The cloud over Amazon is lifting. The e-commerce and cloud giant reported Thursday that its cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, accelerated revenue growth by nearly 3 percentage points to 20% in the third quarter, its fastest rate of expansion since the end of 2022. That means AWS, by far the biggest of the major cloud firms, has joined its nearest rivals, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, in showing accelerating growth.... Read more ›
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OpenAI this week restructured itself into a company with traditional equity, and it wasn’t long before rumblings about an initial public offering followed. There are plenty of reasons why an IPO listing may not happen until 2027 at the earliest, according to a person who has been involved in the discussion. Among them: It’s likely to be one of the biggest in history in terms of the capital OpenAI will... Read more ›
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Apple reported an 8% jump in revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter and forecast even stronger growth during the holidays, due to demand for its latest iPhones. The results were another sign of life for the company’s iPhone business, sales of which have stagnated in recent years. Apple’s new ... Read more ›
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Nvidia is planning to invest up to $1 billion in Poolside as part of the artificial intelligence startup’s ongoing funding round, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Poolside previously developed AI-powered coding assistants, but is pivoting to training foundation models. The startup has been seeking ... Read more ›
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Coinbase said its third-quarter revenue was $1.87 billion, up 55% from a year ago, driven by rising trading volume and growth in the number of tokens available for its customers to trade. Stock jumped 2.6% in post-market trading. Net income was $433 million, up from $76 million a year ago. ... Read more ›
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Amazon shares jumped more than 10% in aftermarket trading Thursday, after the e-commerce giant said that Amazon Web Services revenue grew 20.2% to $33 billion in the third quarter, the fastest rate since 2022. While competitors Microsoft and Google have much smaller cloud businesses than AWS, ... Read more ›
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Italian conglomerate Bending Spoons, which said Wednesday it would buy AOL, said Thursday it had raised $2.8 billion in debt and $270 million in new equity. The equity raising valued the company at $11 billion, excluding the new money. The borrowing will cover both the cost of the AOL deal ... Read more ›
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NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service appears to be stalled. The service’s subscribers were flat at 41 million in the third quarter, NBCU’s parent company Comcast reported on Thursday. NBCU reported the same subscriber number for the first half of the year. Comcast president Michael ... Read more ›
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It’s hard to find a leader in tech and finance who isn’t feverishly figuring out how to implement artificial intelligence in their company. At The Information’s Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference, executives said their use of AI had gone well beyond experimentation, changing the kind and number of employees they hire, how they reach new customers—and how they manage their businesses. “Your job is not to work 9-9-6.... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is planning to sell at least $25 billion of corporate bonds on Thursday and has received orders for about $125 billion for the sale, Bloomberg reported. The outsized demand could give Meta leverage to increase the size of the bond issue or negotiate better terms with investors. ... Read more ›
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About half of subscribers to The Information who responded to our latest survey said they bought or sold cryptocurrency, crypto exchange-traded funds or crypto treasury stocks in the past three months. Notably, more of our readers are buying than selling: 47% of all respondents said they bought crypto or something related in the past three months, while just 25% said they sold. The survey’s findings are based on 528 responses. Read more ›
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Travel software company Navan’s initial public offering struggled Thursday with shares falling by more than 15%. The offering was priced at $25 a share and the company raised $923 million. The startup was valued at $6.2 billion in the IPO, roughly $3 billion less than where private investors ... Read more ›
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Microsoft shared some good and bad news with investors during its quarterly earnings call Wednesday: More customers have been using Microsoft’s suite of AI copilots, but many of them aren’t paying for it. Microsoft said more people are using Copilot Chat, which provides ChatGPT-like features to Office 365 subscribers for free (more advanced features are priced on a pay-as-you-go basis). Copilot Chat is a more price-flexible version of Microsoft’s flagship... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX said Thursday that it’s considering changing unspecified parts of its plan to land U.S. astronauts on the Moon after the head of NASA said the company is “behind schedule” and said the agency would consider alternative bids. SpaceX first won the contract in 2021 to provide the ... Read more ›
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Shareholders in data center developer Core Scientific voted down a $9 billion sale to cloud provider CoreWeave, ending a deal that CoreWeave pitched as key to lowering the costs of its debt-heavy business model. Core Scientific said Thursday it terminated the merger agreement with CoreWeave ... Read more ›
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At our Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference Wednesday, AI leaders from Microsoft, PagerDuty and Index Ventures got into the nitty gritty of what it’s like to invest in, develop, buy and use AI products. Our top takeaways.1. Not everyone’s a fan of vibe coding. Lucy Guo, the CEO of creator startup Passes and a cofounder of data labeling firm Scale AI, said that she’s met companies that claim... Read more ›
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