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Shopify Chief Financial Officer Jeff Hoffmeister said the e-commerce software company wasn’t yet seeing many transactions completed by AI shopping tools, even though shoppers are increasingly using chatbots to look for product recommendations. “As you think about true agentic commerce and how ...
Nvidia will invest $2 billion in Amsterdam-based AI cloud company Nebius Group and the two companies will work together to build data centers using 5 gigawatts of energy by the end of the decade. The deal, announced by both companies Wednesday, adds to the growing tally of investments ...
Uber announced it would offer the Zoox robotaxi to customers starting this year. This is the first time the Amazon-owned self-driving car company has partnered with an outside ride-hailing app. Zoox will be available on the Uber app starting this summer in Las Vegas, and next year will be ...
For much more on AI finance, please join me and my colleague Cory Weinberg at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 27, for The Information’s Financing the AI Revolution forum. Hear from top executives and investors on how the rapid buildout of AI is reshaping tech, finance, and capital markets. Learn more here.It’s hard to overstate how lucky AI developers were that their brilliant...
Online retailer Quince announced a new $500 million funding round Wednesday, more than doubling the company’s previous valuation to more than $10 billion, including the investment. The announcement confirms a report by The Information last week that the company was in talks with investors. The ...
The global memory chip shortage sparked by the AI boom has prompted companies including Google and Nvidia to spend more effort on alternatives that could ease the supply crunch. One of them is a technology that allows servers to share memory across a data center.The technology, Compute Express Link, or CXL, is seven years old but was slow to take off until recently, in part because it slows down...
Amazon raised $37 billion in bonds in the U.S., the company confirmed in a securities filing on Wednesday, buttressing its balance sheet as it ramps up its investment in AI. the bonds range from two year notes to 50 year notes. Separately, Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the company raised an ...
With OpenAI suddenly scaling back on chatbot checkouts, its foray into shopping hinges on convincing retailers to set up shop with dedicated apps within ChatGPT—and getting people to buy stuff there. It faces hurdles on both fronts.
ChatGPT apps have been around for just a few months—available for around 100 consumer firms, including Uber and Instacart—but shoppers may not know they exist or how...
A cybersecurity agency in China issued a warning about the security risks of using OpenClaw, the viral AI agent builder that has become wildly popular in the country. OpenClaw’s fragile security configuration could allow attackers to gain full control of the system, said the National Computer ...
Tencent Holdings is secretly building a new AI agent for its hugely popular WeChat messaging app, in hopes of leapfrogging rivals like Alibaba Group and ByteDance in the race to dominate China’s domestic AI market, The Information reported. The new agent would connect with the millions of ...