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xAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok posted a series of sexualized images of minors on X over the past several days in response to prompts from users, a move the Grok account later attributed to “lapses in safeguards.” In response to critical posts, the Grok account on X wrote Friday that ...
What’s that smell? It’s the whiff of humble pie being eaten by The Information’s prognosticators.
A year ago, we made a series of predictions about tech deals that would get done, executives who would leave their companies and other events that we thought might happen in 2025. Many of those predictions did not come to pass. In our defense, when you have a policy of making bold and specific...
No one in Silicon Valley gets wealthy or powerful by dwelling on the past. Rather, the brightest minds within tech often outshine the competition by obsessing about the future.
We like to get in on the game too. In keeping with annual tradition, we’re publishing below our best educated guesses on what’ll happen in 2026: what Microsoft buys, what Amazon discards, what robot goes mainstream, and...
Tesla delivered 16% fewer vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2025 than it did during the same period during the previous year, a worse-than-expected finish to the company’s second full year of falling sales. The Elon Musk-led automaker delivered 418,000 vehicles in the October-to-December quarter ...
Two years ago, Microsoft dominated the market for AI coding tools, which automatically generate code for developers.
That’s because it got early access to OpenAI’s models through its partnership with the startup, and at the time, Microsoft led the pack in code generation. As a result, Microsoft moved quickly to launch GitHub Copilot as the first widely available AI coding product in 2022.
Today...
Chinese search giant Baidu said it AI chip subsidiary has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong listing. Baidu’s move to spin off the chip business and list it separately comes amid a wave of successful initial public offerings by Chinese AI chip companies. Kunlunxin (Beijing) Technology, ...
Shares of Chinese AI chip developer Shanghai Biren Technology surged on their debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Friday after the firm’s successful initial public offering. The stock’s rise is the latest indication of investors’ strong interest in China’s domestic semiconductor sector. On ...
Happy New Year! It’s the perfect time for a refresh on what’s been top of mind for The Information’s readers—and the early trends and open questions worth keeping tabs on in 2026.
In 2025, our most popular stories revealed growing cracks in the artificial intelligence boom and pinpointed challenges facing the most dominant AI companies. The top story was also one of our most recent, about a “...
OpenAI is taking steps to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its eventual release of an AI-powered personal device, said a person with knowledge of the effort. The device is expected to be largely audio-based, said three people with knowledge of it.
When people speak to ChatGPT, the chatbot can talk back but the large language model that powers the audio version is a different one...
As almost everyone in Silicon Valley has found out lately, creating AI is a money drain, and many of the biggest startups eager to do so aren’t profitable. That’s true even for the AI business run by the world’s richest man, and that’s why I expect Elon Musk will take a drastic step next year to keep the money flowing to xAI: by selling to the profitable part of his empire, Tesla.