Jessica Lessin

Silicon Valley is governed by a set of rules about how Silicon Valley is supposed to operate. There are pecking orders for just about everything from employees (engineers are king) to investors (most founders would take a check from Sequoia). But every once in a while, those rules change. And ...

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is having a good year. Despite growing competition and the looming rise of autonomous vehicles, the company announced another quarter of solid growth and a $20 billion share buyback. And, as he shared with me in an interview on The Information’s TITV on Wednesday, it’s ...

Oura CEO Tom Hale said that the health-tracking company crossed more than $500 million in annual revenue last year, and grew at more than 120 percent. “I think the smart ring category is really on fire and Oura’s leader in it,” he said in an exclusive interview with The Information editor-in-chief Jessica Lessin on The Information TITV. One of the accelerants: more adoption by women after

When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerbergto talk artificial intelligence, I expected that he would want to discuss the company’s new supercomputer plans and talk about why he’s been working the phones all summer in a red-hot AI recruiting blitz. We covered all that. But over the ...

Microsoft has hired a veteran marketing executive, with experience at both Meta Platforms and Time Warner, to serve as a creative director of the company’s Copilot consumer artificial intelligence chatbot, according to two people briefed on the situation. The hiring is a sign of how AI firms are ...

Update: OpenAI confirmed it is hiring Instacart CEO Fidji Simoto oversee some of the company’s divisions in a major leadership restructuring at the artificial intelligence firm. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, confirming an earlier report by The Information, said he wouldcontinue overseeing research and ...

On this week’s episode: The Google and Meta antitrust cases shaking up the ads economy, Tesla’s bad quarter, the protein bubble and more.

On this week’s More or Less: The battle lines are drawn on OpenAI.

On this week’s More or Less: Google’s $32B deal and a Silicon Valley spy scandal!

Google co-founder Larry Page has formed a new company, Dynatomics, to upend manufacturing with artificial intelligence. Page and a small group of engineers are working on ways to use large language models to create highly optimized designs for a wide variety of objects and then have a factory ...

This week on More or Less: On the ground at the Upfront Summit, Instagram’s new idea,and what’s coming for consumer.

This week on More or Less: DeepSeek, memes and Dave quits social media.

This week on More or Less: The group takes sides on Meta's moderation overhaul. Plus, why we are happy we skipped CES.

As a new year dawns, I always spend a lot of time thinking about what I worked on in the one that has just ended—the people I hired, the stories we broke, the experiments we tried. Reflecting on 2024, it’s also clear to me that how I work changed a lot. In some respects, my expanding job ...

This week on More or Less: Sora reveal, Google's AI agents and digital trade under Trump.

Tech executives love to bemoan growing regulation. But, on the pod this week, Aaron Levie, the CEO of enterprise company Box,had a much more nuanced and interesting view. I hope you enjoy, along with a fiery Levie versus Sam Lessin debate over the promise of AI. I'll let you guess where they ...

This week on More or Less: A shift in the Silicon Valley narrative and why D.O.G.E. is not X. Plus, Jessica's new investment and Brit's new hair.

This week on More or Less: The media lessons to take away from the presidential campaign. Plus, why you are probably building your apps wrong. Enjoy! Transcript below.

The first thing I saw on my phone this morning when I awoke at 5:45 a.m. was a push alert from The New York Times announcing that Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race put the U.S. “on the edge of a more authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its history.” The language ...

This week on More or Less: Earnings from Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft explained. Plus, Bezos's big bind at the Washington Post. Enjoy!