Two years ago, Microsoft dominated the market for AI coding tools, which automatically generate code for developers. That’s because it got early access to OpenAI’s models through its partnership with the startup, and at the time, Microsoft led the pack in code generation. As a result, Microsoft ...

As almost everyone in Silicon Valley has found out lately, creating AI is a money drain, and many of the biggest startups eager to do so aren’t profitable. That’s true even for the AI business run by the world’s richest man, and that’s why I expect Elon Musk will take a drastic step next year to ...

Oracle has a real problem:It’scommitted to buildinghuge chip-filled data centers for OpenAI, but it doesn’t have the cash to do so. So far, the company has been able todefray the upfront costs of constructing the data center’s physical buildings, but it will soon need to fill those structures ...

Wall Street’s latest push into private markets may give individual investors and their 401(k) accounts access to shares of unicorns like SpaceX and OpenAI. It may also allow them to add billions of additional dollars to the liquidity trap currently plaguing more sophisticated investors. Private ...

As AI has completely consumed the tech industry, Apple has held back from the colossal investments in the technology its peers have been making. Wall Street, pundits and media outlets have criticized and chronicled Apple’s stumbles and seeming lack of urgency in the AI arms race.That includes ...

Quantity is so often the enemy of quality, a truth made plainly apparent across podcast feeds these days: Everyone and their cousin—or, rather, everyone and their Series B investor—is trying to do a lengthy chat show, seated behind high-end video cameras and the same set of Shure mics that Joe ...

“Suspense is an artform,” said Bruce Holsinger, the author of “Culpability,” a tense family drama about the ramifications of a horrific car accident. Oh, yes, I should add: The mini-van was driving itself. “I think a lot about suspense—at the level of the chapter, the sentence, the sequence of ...

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have gained popularity in the U.S. by letting people bet on everything from elections to Oscar winners to weather trends. But over the past year, a substantial portion of their wagers—and in Kalshi’s case the vast majority—have come from sports ...

Recently, Nick Noone, co-founder and CEO of Peregrine, was introduced to Candace Parker, sports broadcaster and retired WNBA star, by mutual friends. They hit it off. The two share a passion for athletics. (Noone was a Stanford gymnast.) And both have an interest in startups. (Parker is an ...

Lately, the rich and restless of Silicon Valley have been appearing more often at the sort of formal events that call for black tie. It has not been going well. At the Breakthrough Prize ceremony in April, for instance,Sam Altman wore a shrunken dinner jacketwith low-rise trousers, which exposed ...

In the weird, wild world of Whatnot, the startup defying Silicon Valley’s dismal track record with live shopping, the merchants speak a unique lingo. Whatnot is a resale market, where sellers auction off items like sports cards, last season’s suede sneakers and off-brand cologne through video ...

An earthquake shook the sporting universe this week: Serena Williams, the 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion, has taken the first step toward a potential comeback by reentering the sport’s anti-doping test pool. After news reports surfaced on Tuesday of her registration with the International ...

Early last year, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan decided to host what he likes to call a “coffee chat” with the employees of VMware, the software giant that the Broadcom CEO had recently purchased for $84 billion. The companywide meeting was Tan’s effort to introduce himself and answer questions from ...

“So here’s a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “There used to be a lot more cool, interesting places in New York—and there’s still a few left.” Attie, the 30-year-old founder of Klay, a new ...

Here at The Information, we approach the holidays with the same mindset that guides our reporting on the world’s most powerful people and largest companies throughout the rest of the year. This is all to say: We focus on dispensing nothing but the no-holds-barred truth. So each year, our annual ...

Until recently, Mehul Nariyawala had a surefire way to kill a conversation at a Silicon Valley cocktail hour. All he had to do was tell someone what product his startup, Matic, hoped to sell: a robot that’s part vacuum, part mop. “What they would almost always then ask is, ‘That’s not the only ...

To get inside why Zach Dell believes he will shake up the half-trillion-dollar U.S. power industry and then go global, it helps to take account of who’s inspiring the moves. That would be his father, Michael Dell, who sold computer parts out of his college dorm at 19, took Dell Computer public ...

Of all the places AI is seeping into, a program by a pair of Czech ice dancers angling for a spot at the Winter Olympics in February may be one of the most unexpected. Yet, at last weekend’s Skate America tournament, a major international competition ahead of Milano Cortina 2026, Kateřina ...

The week before Halloween, Grindr, the gay dating-and-hookup app, threw a big party near New York’s Chelsea neighborhood—its second annual Pleasure Ball. The theme: sexy garden, essentially. (“Nature’s gay and it’s hungry,” read the invitation.) Attendees showed up as scantily clad gnomes and ...

The decisions by major AI companies—xAI in July, Meta in August, and OpenAI last month—to open their chatbots to erotica have supercharged debate around humans forming romantic relationships with AI. Critics argue that this is the end of human connection. I founded and run one of the largest ...