Jessica E. Lessin

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Mira Murati’s enigma machine• Artificial Intelligence: Nvidia’s AI stimulus plan• Plus, our Recommendations: “Desk Set,” “Mission Accomplished” and “It’s Only Drowning”When you’ve worked in an ...

It’s hard to think of a company that faces a bigger perception gap than Anduril. Talk to investors in Silicon Valley, and they will be clamoring to get in on its next round—last priced at $30 billion. Talk to generals and others in the traditional defense industry, and they’ll ask whether the ...

Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf said that the partial government shutdown could “stall progress for the year” across the defense sector in an interview that aired Friday on The Information’s TITV.“For a company like us, we’re in a pretty good spot working a lot of continuing programs,” he said. “The bigger issue is when you’re in rapid growth and you need these new things to go, that is very, very

Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s major reorg, the company’s new "Spud” model and its decision to shut down the Sora video app and application programming interface, which we scooped on Tuesday. (For what the company’s organizational structure looks like ...

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Midjourney’s David Holz was AI’s creative rebel. Then Google pounced.• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Catching the Codfather” “American Reich” and “For All Mankind”The only thing more fluid these days than which AI ...

Uber promoted its Chief Marketing Officer Jill Hazelbaker to president and chief corporate affairs officer, adding human resources, real estate and safety to her remit.Hazelbaker is a veteran technology communications and public policy leader who worked at Google and Snap before joining Uber in 2015. She got her feet wet at the company by leading communications during the turbulent

One day last fall, my third-grade son came home and proudly announced that he had watched YouTube at school. I was miffed, wondering what the teachers were doing while they plopped the kids in front of a screen. “Don’t worry, Mom,” my son said. “We watched Mark Rober.” I felt alittlebetter. I ...

When people ask me what I've learned about leadership from reporting on tech companies for 20 years, I always say the same thing: that the most successful CEOs are more pragmatic than zealous.Tech CEOs are notorious for using visionary language and tying it to their personal beliefs about ...

A year ago today, The Information launched TITV, our daily video show breaking down the biggest stories in tech. It made sense: the team known for breaking the biggest news in technology should break it on video, too. Our journalists were ready. Our guests were booked. We were all in.The launch ...