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Meta employees are turning AI usage into a competition.

Read the full story by Jyoti Mann at the link in bio.

Meta employees are turning AI usage into a competition.

Read the full story by Jyoti Mann at the link in bio.

Meta employees are turning AI usage into a competition.

Read the full story by Jyoti Mann at the link in bio.

What happens when you bring tech’s brightest innovators to Indian Wells? 🎾

An unforgettable two days at the intersection of innovation and elite performance. From hitting the courts for a clinic with the pros to watching the action from the stands, The Information House was a total grand slam. When we weren’t hitting, we were deep in conversation about the future of global sports: specifically how data, media fragmentation, and AI are changing the game forever. 🚀🎾

Thank you to our partners @ibm @pwcus and @meta and Grand Slam champion Madison Keys @madisonkeys and legendary coach Darren Cahill @dc10s for an incredible two days.

We’re still buzzing from the energy on and off the court! 📈🎾

How is Sam Altman different from Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis?

"Sam is not really a scientist.”

“He dropped out of Stanford and he's a very smart guy, a great fundraiser, a great business leader, but he's not a scientist. And so that's very different to either Demis or Dario." — Sebastian Mallaby, Author of 'The Infinity Machine’

Frontier AI labs are extending their lead over open source.

Stephanie Palazzolo reports on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s analysis of open & closed model performance:

“Those two trend lines are actually kind of diverging. And the gap between them is getting wider over time…”

Elon Musk’s court battle with OpenAI was a “circus”, Rocket Drew says after watching it in person.

"The thing that I would try to communicate is just what a circus this whole event was. I mean, what a spectacle."

"You had people lining up outside the courthouse at 5am… there were days that the live stream cumulatively got over 10,000 listeners.”

SpaceX is eyeing a historic public market debut, and BlackRock is considering a $10B bet.

"SpaceX needs $75 billion... that's the biggest IPO in history by at least a factor of two."

"... BlackRock has at least been discussing investing as much as $10 billion in this IPO..." — Cory Weinberg, Deputy Bureau Chief of Finance

Breaking News: Elon Musk Loses OpenAI Lawsuit

"In the end it came down to time, and the jury decided that Musk had run out." — The Information's Editor-in-Chief Jessica Lessin

Jurors rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, delivering a major victory to CEO Sam Altman in Silicon Valley’s biggest grudge match.

The nine-member jury’s decision on Monday, following three weeks of testimony and legal arguments, came after just two hours of deliberation. The jury found, and the judge agreed, that Musk waited too long to bring his lawsuit.

The decision removes significant uncertainties that have clouded OpenAI’s future as it grapples with intensifying competition and prepares for an IPO that could come as soon as this year.

Read more at the link in bio.

Steve Jobs had some very “direct feedback” for Apple engineer Matt Rogers about the iPod shuffle.

“He had some very… direct feedback for me on how he did not like certain parts of the user experience.”

“There may have been some expletives and then click. And, you know, we went to work, we fixed it.”

Early iPhone engineer and CEO of Mill, Matt Rogers, on OpenAI’s hardware ambitions:

“Eventually they're going to need to build the phone.”

“It's utterly ironic that, like Jony Ive, the chosen disciple of Steve Jobs, will end up building an Android phone.”

OpenAI has “a unique opportunity to transform advertising”, says Gokul Rajaram of Marathon Management Partners.

“They have search data similar to Google. But on the other hand, we also give a lot of behavioral data to OpenAI.”

"They can combine the best of search intent and behavioral data from the two best advertising platforms, the two large advertising platforms: Google and Meta."

Could the App Store become irrelevant?

Apple reporter Aaron Tilley thinks if they can’t figure out how to implement AI, “do they become irrelevant in this new generation of software, of AI?"

“Apple makes the best hardware and they need to be the best platform for this new generation of AI.”