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Some news: Today is my first day at The Information. I'll be writing about the money flowing into AI with a particular focus on private equity, sovereign wealth funds and other large backers. It's an exciting time to be starting on this beat at a publication I've long admired for

Exclusive: A humanoid robotics startup founded by the former CEO of bankrupt fintech Synapse is in talks to raise money at a $1 billion valuation. Read more from Michael Roddan and natasha mascarenhas 👇 theinformation.com/articles/ex-sy…

Scoop w/ Michael Roddan: Ex-Synapse CEO’s Robot Startup Targets $1 Billion Valuation theinformation.com/articles/ex-sy…

Exclusive: Exclusive: Tiger Global’s Tech Megafund Recovers a Bit, Thanks to OpenAI Tiger Global’s flagship VC fund was still mired in red ink at year-end, though surging AI valuations have started to soften the losses. Read more from natasha mascarenhas 👇 theinformation.com/articles/opena…

I got my hands on the latest returns data for Tiger Global's $12.7 billion flagship fund. Read my latest for exclusive details on the fund's losses, markdowns, growing OpenAI stake & some recovery from vaulting AI (and crypto!) valuations. theinformation.com/articles/opena…

🚨 Reporting job alert: Join Stephanie Palazzolo & our incredible team The Information to lead coverage of OpenAI (w/ lots of support).

Another scoopy Dealmaker column, this one from natasha mascarenhas on six partners leaving Andreessen, Lightspeed, Coatue and others to hang up their own shingle: theinformation.com/articles/andre…

The VC spin out and step back trend continues. Read Dealmaker for the latest string of departures to know about: theinformation.com/articles/andre…

In case you missed it, Perplexity has generated a ton of buzz as a Google challenger, but it made only around $20k in ad revenue in the fourth quarter Read more great details on Perplexity’s business from Sri Muppidi here 👇 theinformation.com/articles/googl…

OpenAI goes public with its acquisition of the Jony Ive device startup, which we first scooped here: theinformation.com/articles/opena…

“They aren’t raising yet but will be soon” means the round will be done within three days. Hope that helps.

SCOOP: JPMorgan has agreed to lend more than $7 billion to the firms building OpenAI’s giant artificial intelligence data center campus in Abilene, Texas theinformation.com/articles/jpmor… The Information

Secondaries on buybacks on secondary buybacks theinformation.com/articles/start…

Scoop w/ Stephanie Palazzolo & Sri Muppidi: The race for healthcare AI is on! Abridge and Ambience Healthcare are both currently in talks to raise capital for their own spins on AI-assisted clinician work. Both companies have received term sheets. theinformation.com/articles/abrid…

“We could go out, and within an hour, I guarantee you we could raise probably, like, $15 million,” Hays said. “And I believe that it would destroy us.” It's always been less about going direct for going direct's sake, and more about untraditional storytelling. Nerding out over

I dug into the growing secondary market and how tenders are becoming an annual affair for young and old tech companies alike. Two learnings outside of the data piece of the story: 1) Several investors compared doing tenders to offering healthcare coverage or a 401(k). It's