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Rise of the Cursor Resistance: Why Some Techies Want to Ignore AI Coding Tools

By Rocket Drew · Oct 11, 2025 6:00am PDT · 28 comments

Over the summer, two software engineers at Mixus, a San Francisco–based artificial intelligence startup, staged a bit of a rebellion by refusing to follow instructions to rely heavily on Cursor or any of the other popular new coding-assistance software. They figured “they could do better than Cursor,” said an incredulous Shai Magzimof,... Over the summer, two software engineers at Mixus, a San Francisco–based artificial...

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How Jensen Huang is Using Nvidia Cash to Rule the AI Economy

By Anissa Gardizy, Nick Wingfield, Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu · Sep 27, 2025 6:00am PDT · 8 comments

Even by the standards of one of the most prodigious dealmakers in tech, the past month or so has been a head-spinning one for Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Just in September, Nvidia agreed to buy any unused Nvidia graphics processing units that cloud provider CoreWeave doesn’t sell to other customers over the next seven years, a deal potentially... Even by the standards of one of the most prodigious dealmakers in tech, the past month or so has...

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Microsoft Hopes Hastened AI Rollout, Price Discounts Can Fuel Office 365 Growth

By Aaron Holmes · Sep 15, 2025 10:04am PDT · 2 comments

On paper, Informatica, a Redwood City-based cloud software firm with 5,000 white collar employees, is exactly the type of company that should be gung-ho to pay up and buy Microsoft 365 Copilot, the version of the company’s flagship Office software that comes with artificial intelligence features. And more than a year ago, Informatica did test... On paper, Informatica, a Redwood City-based cloud software firm with 5,000 white collar...

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AI Talent Frenzy Complicates How Universities Retain, Recruit Doctoral Students

By Andrew Zucker · Sep 13, 2025 5:34am PDT · 1 comment

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AI Talent Frenzy Complicates How Universities Retain, Recruit Doctoral Students

By Andrew Zucker · Sep 13, 2025 5:34am PDT · 1 comment

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 Saphra as BU doctoral students and contribute to... Even though applications aren’t due until December, an avalanche of emails have already hit Naomi...

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AI Forces Silicon Valley to Confront a Moment of Ecstasy and Agony

By Natasha Mascarenhas, Jemima McEvoy and Erin Woo · Aug 23, 2025 6:55am PDT · 7 comments

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 risked becoming one of the dinosaurs,” Liu said. The... Last fall, Howie Liu, CEO and co-founder of Airtable, arrived at a board meeting with an urgent...

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Behind Many Robots, a Human Operator Toils

By Alex Perry and Rocket Drew · Aug 18, 2025 1:14pm PDT · 6 comments

When Nvidia wanted to show off software for developing artificial intelligence at its flagship customer conference in March, it brought out a Star Wars–inspired robot that bobbed its head as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talked to it. “Stand right here,” said Huang, pointing to his side, and the knee-high robot waddled to the spot, receiving... When Nvidia wanted to show off software for developing artificial intelligence at its flagship...

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How Granola—and AI Note Taking—Grabbed Silicon Valley’s Attention

By Abram Brown · Jul 12, 2025 6:00am PDT · 9 comments

At the moment, many in the tech industry have developed a rather profound addiction to Granola. No, not to the crunchy breakfast-time oats—but to a software product made by a two-year-old startup that has come to dominate a crowded field of artificial intelligence–powered note-taking options. The tool from Granola, which was valued... At the moment, many in the tech industry have developed a rather profound addiction to Granola. ...

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AI’s Unexpected Consequence: Meta, Google and Big Tech Learn to Appreciate Art

By Josh Duboff · Jul 5, 2025 6:00am PDT · 1 comment

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AI’s Unexpected Consequence: Meta, Google and Big Tech Learn to Appreciate Art

By Josh Duboff · Jul 5, 2025 6:00am PDT · 1 comment

On an unseasonably warm May afternoon in Manhattan’s bustling Rockefeller Center, the designers Wade Jeffree and Leta Sobierajski stood a few yards in front of a large, colorful sculpture—a “vibrant mirrored maze,” as a nearby placard puts it—that they’d spent the past year building. Billed as a Google Labs Collaboration, the... On an unseasonably warm May afternoon in Manhattan’s bustling Rockefeller Center, the designers...

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The Little-Known Startup That Has Surged Past Scale AI—Without Any Investors

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Cory Weinberg · Jun 19, 2025 6:00am PDT · 6 comments

For years, data labeling existed in a tucked-away corner of Silicon Valley, a critical but unglamorous area of AI where companies like Google and OpenAI hire outside firms to improve their models by laboriously grading the quality of what they produce. Now, a spotlight has unexpectedly fallen onto the field in the wake of Meta Platforms’... For years, data labeling existed in a tucked-away corner of Silicon Valley, a critical but...

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Government Deals and a Palace Dinner: Scale AI’s Billionaire CEO Eyes Grander Stage In Politics

By Julia Black and Sylvia Varnham O'Regan · Mar 15, 2025 6:00am PDT · 3 comments

Just a day before a major AI summit in Paris commenced last month, the event’s organizers made a sudden addition to the speaker lineup: Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old billionaire co-founder and CEO of Scale AI, a startup that specializes in fine-tuning and assessing the quality of AI models for both private companies as well as the U.S.... Just a day before a major AI summit in Paris commenced last month, the event’s organizers made a...

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AI.com Is for Sale. Asking Price? $100 Million

By Akash Pasricha · Mar 1, 2025 6:00am PST · 7 comments

Deep in Queens, New York, out near John F. Kennedy Airport, Larry Fischer was distraught. One of his favorite Italian joints—Don Peppe, the place where he lunched with Facebook’s lawyers after selling them Messenger.com in 2014—had closed for vacation this past week. It had seemed like a fitting place for our conversation about... Deep in Queens, New York, out near John F. Kennedy Airport, Larry Fischer was distraught. One of...

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Can’t Compute It All? Introducing The Information’s Glossary of AI Jargon

By Rocket Drew · Jan 30, 2025 7:16am PST · 2 comments

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Can’t Compute It All? Introducing The Information’s Glossary of AI Jargon

By Rocket Drew · Jan 30, 2025 7:16am PST · 2 comments

The only thing coming at us faster these days than advances in artificial intelligence’s capabilities is the amount of industry jargon we’re all needing to decipher. Don’t know the difference between open weights and open source? Still trying to distill the meaning of AI distillation, the process DeepSeek may have used to... The only thing coming at us faster these days than advances in artificial intelligence’s...

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A Marketplace to Solve AI Copyright Woes?

By Abram Brown · Dec 28, 2024 6:00am PST · 1 comment

Nearly a century ago, Isaac Asimov laid out his Three Laws of Robotics, a set of commandments imagining how artificial beings should interact with humans. The tenets underpin much of modern science fiction, and they tend to knock around in the minds of the people developing modern technology, too. Trip Adler, a co-founder of Scribd—which... Nearly a century ago, Isaac Asimov laid out his Three Laws of Robotics, a set of commandments...