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Below is a collection of every AI Summit article by The Information.
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Business Adoption of AI Will Take Years, Say Venture Capitalists and Executives

By The Information Staff · Sep 30, 2025 3:50pm PDT · 5 comments
Artificial intelligence services will take years to penetrate the economy, because businesses need to figure out how to use new AI products and train workers to use them, according to speakers at The Information’s AI Agenda Live conference on Tuesday. Sarah Guo, founder and partner at venture capital firm Conviction, noted that cloud computing... Artificial intelligence services will take years to penetrate the economy, because businesses...
Speakers at The Information's AI Agenda Live conference in San Francisco February 27, 2025. Photo by Erin Beach. Art by Clark Miller.
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AI Comes for the White-Collar Worker: Agenda Live Highlights

By The Information Staff · Feb 28, 2025 7:15am PST
A growing number of artificial intelligence assistants will make workers more productive in specialized fields such as law, medicine and entertainment. It could also replace some jobs altogether, said speakers at The Information’s AI Agenda Live conference Thursday. “We have tech companies very actively thinking about how I can reduce my IT... A growing number of artificial intelligence assistants will make workers more productive in...
Vinod Khosla. Photo by Erin Beach.
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Vinod Khosla: Most AI Investments Will Lose Money as Market Enters ‘Greed’ Cycle

By Sri Muppidi · Feb 27, 2025 4:57pm PST
Early OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla warned that most investments in artificial intelligence will lose money, particularly as more investors jump into the market, funding more startups. But he said some companies would grow to be worth hundreds of billions—and eventually trillions—of dollars and make up for the failures. “More money... Early OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla warned that most investments in artificial intelligence will...
Aparna Pappu, vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, left, and Naveen Rao, vice president of AI at Databricks. Photo by Erin Beach
AI Summit: Nvidia Rivals, Musk’s Supercomputer Claims and Hot AI Jobs
By The Information Staff · Sep 5, 2024 7:37pm PDT
Aparna Pappu, vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, left, and Naveen Rao, vice president of AI at Databricks. Photo by Erin Beach
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AI Summit: Nvidia Rivals, Musk’s Supercomputer Claims and Hot AI Jobs

By The Information Staff · Sep 5, 2024 7:37pm PDT
Artificial intelligence has turned into a battle of giants—but there is still room for startups, from makers of graphics processing units to applications that promise to make healthcare more efficient. Those themes emerged from The Information’s AI Summit in San Francisco Thursday. Greylock Partners’ Reid Hoffman called Elon... Artificial intelligence has turned into a battle of giants—but there is still room for...
Reid Hoffman. Photo by Erin Beach
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OpenAI Investor Hoffman Says Musk’s New AI Chip Cluster Is ‘Table Stakes’

By Erin Woo · Sep 5, 2024 4:02pm PDT · 1 comment
Elon Musk’s recent claim that his xAI startup had assembled a cluster of 100,000 Nvidia chips in four months represents “table stakes” for the kinds of artificial intelligence Musk is pursuing, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman said Thursday at The Information’s AI Summit. “I don't think it's necessarily... Elon Musk’s recent claim that his xAI startup had assembled a cluster of 100,000 Nvidia...