Nick Wingfield

Meta Platforms has acquired PlayAI, a startup working on artificial intelligence-powered voice technology, Bloomberg reported. PlayAI staffers will join Meta next week and report to Johan Schalkwyk, who previously worked at the voice startup Sesame AI, according to Bloomberg. Last year, PlayAI said it raised $21 million in seed and pre-seed funding from Kindred Ventures, Y Combinator,

Exciting news on the home front: Today, we launched a powerful new AI chatbot, The Information Deep Research, trained on over a decade of our exclusive reporting on the most important tech companies and people, including our stories, org charts and proprietary data. You can use it to generate ...

Masayoshi Son is a man who keeps adding zeros to his grand ambitions. Apparently, the SoftBank Group founder isn’t content with his $500 billion Stargate plan to build artificial intelligence data centers and is now trying to rally partners, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., to ...

Mark Zuckerberg seems confident! As we reported earlier today, Meta Platforms is on the cusp of taking a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.8 billion and bringing the AI startup’s CEO, Alexandr Wang, on board to lead a new AI lab. There are echoes in the Meta–Scale AI talks of earlier deals between ...

When normies want to set lofty fitness goals for themselves, they train for half- or full-marathons. If they’re feeling ambitious, perhaps they shoot for a triathlon or a Tough Mudder. For the type A personalities of tech, though, those events are sometimes warmups, literally, for even more ...

Apple has enlisted the help of Mike Rockwell, the leader of its Vision Pro product, to get the company’s struggling artificial intelligence efforts back on track, Bloomberg reported. Rockwell will take over the development of Siri, Apple’s longtime intelligent assistant, from John Giannandrea, the company’s AI chief, Bloomberg reported. The moves reflect Apple CEO Tim Cook’s loss of confidence

Around the timeJigar Shah became director of the loan programs office at the U.S. Department of Energy, his venture capitalist friends gave him an earful about the idea of investing in nuclear power startups. “Like, 20 of my best friends in 2021 told me, ‘Jigar, we will never, ever in a million ...

Over the past two years, the explosive growth of artificial intelligence has created a dilemma for tech behemoths: How can their data centers meet AI’s mind-boggling need for electricity without befouling the planet in the process? Amazon, for one, may have found an answer to that question 200 ...

Nuclear isn’t the only source of carbon-free power that has energized the tech industry. For years, solar and wind have been mainstays for tech companies looking to reduce the greenhouse gases emitted by their data centers and other operations. The tech industry is also forming partnerships to ...

The CEO of Sonos, Patrick Spence, is leaving the maker of internet-connected speakers following the introduction of a flawed new app last year that tarnished the company’s reputation. Spence will be replaced by an interim CEO and Sonos board member, Tom Conrad, who previously worked at Quibi, Snap and Pandora. A Sonos announcement said that the company’s board and Spence agreed on the changes.