As 2024 was drawing to a close, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced two major problems. He wasn’t getting enough server capacity from Microsoft, his company’s biggest backer, to stay ahead of rivals ...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Ventures, an early backer of Amazon and Snowflake, has some strong takes on where artificial intelligence is going next—and fresh capital to back them up.The ...

It’s a good bet that President Donald Trump cares a lot more about TikTok than Chinese President Xi Jinping does. That suggests the Chinese leader will have some bargaining leverage over Trump in ...

OpenAI’s development of an “agent” to automate the work of a senior software engineer—which my colleagues scooped yesterday—will raise the stakes in an already competitive market for AI coding tools.

Before we get to the rest of today’s newsletter, we have the latest update on TikTok. On Tuesday night, my colleague Sylvia ...

You might wonder, watching Mark Zuckerberg’s announcements of the past week, whether we’re witnessing a version of the ...

Several months ago, executives at Alibaba tried to persuade some big investors to take a stake in its cloud unit—which Alibaba was then planning to spin off as a separate company—at a $40 billion ...

Several big tech companies are laying off employees and making performance-based job cuts. But firms are also hiring and ...

Shortly after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential election Sunday, an employee at Meta Platforms posted in the company’s internal forum that Threads, its text app, was missing in action. “Biden ...

For more than a year, startup founders have watched in awe and some trepidation as hedge funds and other large investors flooded private startups with big checks, pushing up valuations and making it ...

The leaders of Adept, a 2-year-old artificial intelligence startup run by former OpenAI and Google AI developers, held talks in recent months about a possible sale or strategic partnership with large ...