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Deep Research

Google’s Vertical Assault on the AI Market

By The Information Staff · Nov 26, 2025 8:00am PST
Google is leveraging its financial stamina and vertical integration to take share from markets dominated by OpenAI and Nvidia. We asked Deep Research to analyze how Google’s resurgence this year in AI software and its continued server hardware improvements are reshaping the industry. Here is the response. Google is leveraging its financial stamina and vertical integration to take share from markets...
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The Briefing

Google’s Meta Talks Put the Ball in Nvidia’s Court

By Martin Peers · Nov 25, 2025 5:00pm PST
We’re getting close to the year’s end, when reporters’ minds turn to predictions for the new year. So here’s one: I predict sometime soon Nvidia will announce it is investing billions of dollars into Meta Platforms, in exchange for Meta committing to continue using Nvidia’s AI chips. This is just a wild guess, to be clear, but it’s based on how... We’re getting close to the year’s end, when reporters’ minds turn to predictions for the new...
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Oracle-Linked Borrowing Binge Worries Lenders

By Miles Kruppa · Nov 25, 2025 6:00am PST
Construction lending was a relatively sleepy corner of Wall Street until Oracle stepped up to become one of OpenAI’s biggest cloud providers, leading to a flood of debt to help build new data centers for the database giant. The volume of borrowing is making some lenders leery. Companies building data centers for Oracle have borrowed at least... Construction lending was a relatively sleepy corner of Wall Street until Oracle stepped up to...
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Meta Platforms Plans Performance-Based Job Cuts

By Sylvia Varnham O'Regan and Kalley Huang · Jan 14, 2025 8:03am PST · 1 comment
Meta Platforms plans a new round of job cuts in the coming weeks, the company told employees on Tuesday, focused on employees who are considered weak performers. The cuts would affect about 5% of Meta’s employees, or about 3,600 people, a human resources director later told staff. In a post on the company’s internal chat system, Meta... Meta Platforms plans a new round of job cuts in the coming weeks, the company told employees on...
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AI Agenda

Meta Platforms Retakes Its Open-Source Lead

By Kalley Huang and Stephanie Palazzolo · Apr 22, 2024 7:00am PDT
Meta Platforms made a splash Thursday with the release of Llama 3, the latest version of its popular open-source large language model, though we stole some of the thunder with our scoop earlier this month. Developers have a lot to say about it—most of it good.For the most part, the 8-billion and 70-billion parameter versions of Llama 3... Meta Platforms made a splash Thursday with the release of Llama 3, the latest version of its...
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Meta Platforms to Launch Small Versions of Llama 3 Next Week

By Sylvia Varnham O'Regan · Apr 8, 2024 3:33pm PDT
Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, according to a Meta employee. The models will serve as a precursor to the launch of the biggest version of Llama 3, expected this summer. Release of the two small models will likely help spark excitement for the forthcoming Llama 3,... Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language...