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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday rebuked an internal memo that another company executive had written advocating to “make people addicted” to its new AI agent product called Scout.“This is absolutely a non goal! If anything we are doing the exact opposite. We want to make sure AI empowers and adds real value to human endeavor and broad economic growth! We should make our teams clear

Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky is in early stage talks to fund a new AI lab, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. The lab will aim to develop models with a possible design focus, according to a Bloomberg report.In recent months, Airbnb has made strides to become a more all-encompassing travel app, with new services like car rentals and hotel bookings.Chesky, who

The Information’s San Francisco Bureau Chief Jason Dean talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about Meta's internal plans to charge up to $200 a month for its premium AI agent, Hatch. We also talk with Helion Energy Founder and CEO David Kirtley about the nuclear fusion company's new $465 million funding round at a $15.5 billion valuation, Netskope CEO Sanjay Beri about the cybersecurity market's growth deceleration and using Anthropic’s Mythos model to spot code vulnerabilities, and Snowflake Chief Data and AI Officer Anahita Tafvizi about the enterprise launch of its newly rebranded CoWork and CoCo tools. Finally, we get into the systemic shift from open academic research to closed frontier AI laboratories with our Applied AI reporter Laura Bratton.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman don’t often see eye to eye, as they made clear in their recent legal dispute. But when it comes to making outlandish projections about future growth, the two men seem to share a common philosophy.As we reported earlier on Thursday, SpaceX’s lead bank on its upcoming IPO, ...

Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the federal government possibly acquiring shares in their firms, the publication Notus reported, citing people familiar with the matter.The preliminary discussions have centered on having firms voluntarily provide the shares, said the Notus article, which said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has

Data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50 billion, as it seeks to capitalize on soaring demand for the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Brookfield Asset Management, ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is making his second trip to South Korea in seven months, underscoring the country’s growing importance to the AI chip giant, according to Reuters.Demand for AI systems has strained supply of the chips and memory needed to build them, making South Korea a more important stop for Nvidia. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are especially critical because they make the

SpaceX’s AI lab has had a chaotic year so far, churning through leaders and staff before bringing in outside help in an effort to catch up to Anthropic in coding. What isn’t widely known, however, is that xAI has played a long-running cat-and-mouse game with Anthropic as it has sought to tap ...

Trust is a requirement for the success of AI, an operating condition that enables speed, scale and autonomy. When implementing AI technology, enterprises need to move at the speed of trust. Go faster, and unforeseen risks proliferate; go slower, and you fall behind your competitors. Most ...

Over the last few months, SpaceX’s chief financial officer, Bret Johnsen, has been trying to pull off an intense two-part challenge: Fold xAI into SpaceX—the biggest merger ever—and then take the combined company public at $75 billion in the largest IPO ever. Johnsen, 57, has gotten it done by ...