Jon Victor
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Joined November 2014
RT @nmasc_: We ran the phones over the past few days to gather up the first signs of how tariffs are shaking up Silicon Valley. My latest w….
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A stock market rout triggered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese and European goods is threatening to end the artificial intelligence–powered gold rush that has buoyed Silicon Valley for...
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RT @theinformation: Exclusive: Anthropic Projects Soaring Growth to $34.5 Billion in 2027 Revenue. Anthropic, a primary challenger to OpenA….
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RT @theinformation: Applied AI: Automating Senior Software Engineers Will Take Longer Than OpenAI Says. A lack of good data on higher-level….
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RT @aaronpholmes: Google and Microsoft are making customers pay for AI, whether they want to or not. That's already rankling some large ent….
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For the last two years, enterprise software companies have been trying to convince customers to fork over more money for new artificial intelligence features, such as generating notes from conference...
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Excited to share something new we've been working on @theinformation: A newsletter focused on how businesses are putting AI to use in practice. Read the first issue and sign up to get Applied AI here:
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Welcome to Applied AI, The Information’s twice-weekly newsletter that will take you inside how businesses are using artificial intelligence.I’m Jon Victor, the lead writer for Applied AI. For seven...
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RT @anissagardizy8: must-read profile of Marc Benioff via @jon_victor_ and @KevKubernetes . dying at this quote 👽 @….
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Marc Benioff on Salesforce rival Sierra (founded by his former co-CEO Bret Taylor): I don’t think about you at all . . @KevKubernetes
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RT @theinformation: Next week - join @jon_victor_ for a special convo on AI in Action: Use Cases, ROI, and What’s Next for 2025 with speake….
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This event has passed. You can find the full recording of the call here. AI’s rapid evolution is transforming industries, but its real-world impact and financial returns vary widely. In this panel,...
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New: It's not just OpenAI. Google DeepMind is also hitting the limits of AI scaling laws .
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Google has recently struggled to achieve performance gains in its Gemini conversational artificial intelligence at the same rate it did last year, prompting researchers to focus on other ways to eke...
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RT @theinformation: Exclusive: Two OpenAI business partners are each discussing raising capital at a valuation of around $2 billion. https:….
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OpenAI’s rapid growth continues to boost the prospects of suppliers and other business partners whose sales are also climbing quickly. Anysphere, which develops Cursor, an artificial intelligence...
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Scoop: Miro, last valued at $17.5B in Jan 2022, is laying off 275 people, or roughly 18% of staff .
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Miro, a startup which sells productivity software for businesses and was last valued at $17.5 billion, told employees Wednesday that it plans to lay off roughly 18% of its workforce or around 275...
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Scoop: @HubSpot is buying AI billing startup Cacheflow for around $100M . w/ @anissagardizy8.
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Marketing software vendor HubSpot has struck a deal to buy Cacheflow, which sells a billing product for businesses, for roughly $100 million, according to a person with direct knowledge of the...
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RT @amir: breaking: .@barret_zoph, who was part of the shock departures from OpenAI last week, has privately said he is planning a startup,….
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RT @steph_palazzolo: Prospective investors in OpenAI's ongoing $150Bn round aren't running away, despite the recent leadership turnover. N….
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OpenAI's investors are accustomed to turmoil. There’s been a steady stream of high-profile departures since last November, when CEO Sam Altman was fired in a board coup of cinematic proportions.That...
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RT @theinformation: Tech firms introducing AI agent chatbots have to overcome customer wariness of handing control of important tasks to AI….
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Even as businesses struggle to figure out how artificial intelligence chatbots can help their operations, they’re getting inundated with a new AI offering: chatbots that can independently take...
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RT @theinformation: A New AI Business Model:. Sellers of enterprise AI apps are trying something new: charging customers only when the AI w….
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Last month, Zendesk, which makes customer support software aided by artificial intelligence, decided to sell it in a daring new way. Instead of charging businesses based on how often they use the...
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RT @theinformation: Org Charts: Rippling. The people in charge at the software maker as it moves toward an IPO. F….
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Human resources software firm Rippling raised $200 million from investors in April with a pitch that its ability to help companies manage employee data could also help them manage their computers,...
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RT @theinformation: AI Agenda Deal Exclusive: The startup, Harmonic, could land a $250 million valuation for its AI model that can solve co….
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One of the newest entrants in the race to develop artificial intelligence that can reason through problems is about to raise a bunch more money.Harmonic, a startup cofounded last year by Robinhood...
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Scoop: Harmonic, @vladtenev's new company focused on building "mathematical superintelligence," has been in talks to raise funding in a round that could value it at $250 million .
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One of the newest entrants in the race to develop artificial intelligence that can reason through problems is about to raise a bunch more money.Harmonic, a startup cofounded last year by Robinhood...
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