Late last week, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver inadvertently went viral on social media with a passing comment that quickly got under the skin of basketball fans. When asked during a press conference about how expensive being an NBA fan has become—mainly due to fragmented TV broadcasts and ...

There’s a big public breakup underway: People are dumping their dating apps. Over the past year, Bumble lost nearly 9% of its paying users, the company reported in its earnings report last month. Match Group, meanwhile, saw about 5% of paying users abandon its flagship apps, including Tinder and ...

In February, a peace summit of sorts took place on the top floor of Memphis City Hall. On one side there were a handful of local politicians and environmental activists. On the other was the city’s mayor, Paul Young, and Brent Mayo—a youthful, bearded, hoodie-clad Texan—who came with a message ...

Earlier this month, a federal court issued its remedies for the Department of Justice’s case against Google Search. However, there’s another equally consequential remedies decision before the court that could reshape the integrity of the open web and the future of digital publishing. In this ...

Artificial intelligence has already altered wide swaths of our world. As for the parts that it hasn’t changed—well, it sorta seems inevitable that the technology will reorder them, too. The Information’s Weekend section wants to add a columnist who will explore and explain this disruption. They ...

Earlier this week, a handful of the richest people in the world convened at a five-star hotel in midtown Manhattan to discuss typical titans-of-industry fodder: overseas expansion, the future of media, yadda yadda. But there was an elephant in the room: Did a billionaire in their ranks secretly ...

Even though applications aren’t due until December, an avalanche of emails have already hit Naomi Saphra, a soon-to-be assistant professor of computer science at Boston University who’s currently finishing up research across town at Harvard University. The messages are from people eager to join ...

In June, the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic was finally getting close to hiring a candidate—a Republican—for its top government relations jobafter months of searching for someone. That decision marked a shift: Anthropic had hired several former Biden staffers earlier in the year, ...

To many investors, valuations in AI land are bonkers—yet others justify them. This isn’t your usual bubble mania. Most valuations are bonkers, yet some valuations, even some apparently high valuations are not bonkers. The lower valuations will not be the ones that will be good investments! My ...

A few years back, Brandon Gell, chief operating officer of Every, an artificial intelligence–focused media startup, couldn’t stop staring at a photo taken at the headquarters of another startup, Notion, a maker of productivity software. “It was of their entryway, and it was just shoes—this ...

Which hacker house came first? No one’s exactly sure. But what’s certainly clear is that such hostelries have become enduring Silicon Valley staples even as many other rhythms of startup life have significantly shifted. A whole new crop has bubbled up lately asAI fever has taken hold, presenting ...

The NFL, the world’s richest and most powerful sports league, would like you to know something: It is not thrilled with the way Nielsen measures its TV audience. Earlier this week, the NFL took the extraordinary step of criticizing media measurement firm Nielsen, which the football giant argued ...

Over the past year, investor Brian Sugar has developed what he considers a “superpower,” finding it newly possible to push himself harder than ever before at home, in the gym—and in the office. What’s given him this boost? He attributes it to a recently acquired prescription for semaglutide, ...

It’s not exactly news that Ozempic, Wegovy and other GLP-1 drugs are catching on, with some surveys showing nearly 12% of Americans have used the weight loss medications. The Information’s audience seems to be even more gung-ho about taking GLP-1s than the broader population. More than 50% of ...

For decades, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships has been a crown jewel of the global sports calendar. As the fourth and final Grand Slam of the tennis season, it has hosted historic athletic feats by everyone from Arthur Ashe to Venus Williams. Boisterous night matches—like last weekend’s Daniil ...

Much is known about the pastimes of the world’s wealthiest person, Elon Musk. They include playing videogames, fathering children and reading Douglas Adams novels. Over the past couple of years, Musk has picked up another hobby: waging war against Sam Altman, an ex-friend with whom he co-founded ...

Last fall, Howie Liu, CEO and co-founder of Airtable, arrived at a board meeting with an urgent realization: If Airtable, a maker of collaboration software, wanted to stay relevant, it needed to significantly rethink itself. “We started to feel like the incumbent instead of the disruptor and ...

For nearly as long as Evan Spiegel has run Snap Inc., his big bet has been on Spectacles, the company’s augmented reality glasses. All together, he has poured $3 billion into the effort—a fraction of what Mark Zuckerberg at Meta Platforms has invested in wearable technology, but a major expense ...

It didn’t take long for David Ellison, the fresh-faced millennial owner and CEO of Paramount Skydance, to make a statement. Just five days after the merger between Paramount and Skydance closed, the scion of Oracle’s Larry Ellison reached into his deep pockets to acquire seven years of broadcast ...

In the fast-paced AI wars, time is precious. So when Google last month said it would pay Windsurf $2.4 billion to license the prominent AI startup’s technology and hire some of its employees, the search giant hurried to add Windsurf’s researchers and engineers to its ranks. Within a day, Google ...