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Deep Research

How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping the Global Energy Market

By The Information Staff · Jan 7, 2026 1:25pm PST · 1 comment
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is driving an unprecedented surge in electricity consumption, creating a conflict between immediate climate goals and the industry’s growth. While tech companies are currently increasing their reliance on fossil fuels to power new data centers, the urgent demand for energy is also accelerating... The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is driving an unprecedented surge in electricity...
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AI Agenda

How Artificial Intelligence Will Change in 2026

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Dec 31, 2025 7:00am PST
Welcome to the last AI Agenda issue of 2025! Lots went down this year (check out yesterday’s newsletter for a full recap), and we expect things to get even crazier in 2026. Welcome to the last AI Agenda issue of 2025! Lots went down this year (check out yesterday’s ...
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True Value

Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are the Best Bets in Artificial Intelligence

By Anita Ramaswamy · Jul 4, 2025 11:00am PDT · 10 comments
There are no bargains in artificial intelligence. Investors just gave $2 billion to Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, which is five months old, has no products and produces little revenue. There is value, though, if you look closely enough. Focusing on valuation, growth rates and revenue across the AI landscape separates the reasonable values... There are no bargains in artificial intelligence. Investors just gave $2 billion to Mira Murati’s...
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Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Bet on Reflection for Open-Source AI. Now the Startup Is Playing Catch-Up.

By Rocket Drew · Jul 29, 2026 9:53am PDT
Last August, a co-founder of Reflection AI flew to California to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The fledgling startup had been making an AI coding tool, but the tech magnate encouraged him to go with a new plan, said someone familiar with the meeting, for something that at the time seemed more novel: developing open-source AI models that... Last August, a co-founder of Reflection AI flew to California to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen...
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Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude Code Reigns Despite Rising Interest in Codex, Open-Source Models

By Laura Bratton · Jul 28, 2026 8:00am PDT
Anthropic is facing growing competition and customer skepticism over the lofty prices of AI tools. But the dominance of its blockbuster Claude Code product is proving hard to shake. Companies moved en masse to Claude Code between the end of 2025 and the early months of 2026, in many cases eroding the positions of Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and... Anthropic is facing growing competition and customer skepticism over the lofty prices of AI...
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Artificial Intelligence

Crackdown on AI Lovers Ignites Heartbreak in China—and Hopes to Get Them Back

By Henry Siu, Juro Osawa and Jing Yang · Jul 25, 2026 7:00am PDT
To combat her loneliness, An Xu, a 15-year-old middle schooler in Shanghai, had recently been relying for emotional support on her text and voice conversations with an AI companion on Doubao, China’s most popular AI chatbot app. AI companions are meant to mimic humanlike conversation, emotions and interactions as realistically as... To combat her loneliness, An Xu, a 15-year-old middle schooler in Shanghai, had recently been...