Amir Efrati

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Amir helped launch The Information in 2013. His reporting on Uber’s corporate missteps and on the dangers and limits of self-driving vehicle development at Tesla, Uber, Alphabet’s Waymo, and General Motors’ Cruise won consecutive Best in Business awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. His OpenAI coverage was part of a SABEW-winning package in 2023. Before The Information, he spent the previous nine years at the Wall Street Journal reporting on technology, health, and criminal justice. He was first to report on Bernie Madoff’s arrest and broke major news about the epic fraud. Federal judges have cited his reporting on egregious criminal sentencing. His TV and radio appearances include CNBC, PBS, BBC, Fox, and NPR. He graduated from the University of Iowa, which is his home state. He can be reached at amir@theinformation.com.

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How Google Learned to Embrace Its Inner Oracle

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Kevin McLaughlin

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Alphabet to Wind Down Troubled Internet Balloon Subsidiary ‘Loon’

The decision comes after The Information reported on Loon's troubled technology and struggle in securing outside funding.

Patreon Considers Public Listing as Soon as This Year

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AWS Said It Repeatedly Warned Parler About Posts Urging Murder

No matter what happens with Parler, sooner or later the U.S. Supreme Court will be asked to consider a lawsuit filed by a "de-platformed" conservative-leaning figure or app as a test case of Big Tech’s influence over content.

YouTube Blocks New Trump Videos for at Least a Week

It's the latest effort by an online content platform to limit the president's reach as he continues to lie about the election results following last week's deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Autonomous Vehicles

Venture Capital

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Nvidia is No. 1. Should It Be?

Posted byAmir Efrati

The Information

I'm curious what people here think about Nvidia becoming the world's most valuable company by market cap. AI computing is real, the data center and power investments the top tech giants are making for AI computing are real, but is there a problematic gap between those hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and the revenue (or big savings) being generated fr...

Adobe-Figma: what gives?

Posted byAmir Efrati

The Information

I'm all out of superlatives to describe the incredible $20B price tag for Figma. Do any Figma and/or Adobe users think this is a wise deal at 50/60+ ARR?

#adobe #figma #m&a

American VCs & LPs making bank in China -- OK or not OK?

Posted byAmir Efrati

The Information

I wanted to give some context for our exclusive report about Sequoia Capital's China arm having (very quietly) employed the daughter of one of the most powerful political bureaucrats in China. There's a growing U.S. political movement to stop some cross-border investments and commerce involving China, given the shared geopolitical animosity between the two. It's...

#apple #china #sequoia capital

DataRobot CEO Resigns After Furor Over Undisclosed Secondary Stock Sale. Will the Practice Change?

Posted byAmir Efrati

The Information

The debate about secondary stock sales doesn't seem to be peaking, given how many founders and non-founders (in DataRobot's case, short-tenured execs) cashed out quietly last year when valuations were generous. What other shoes will drop? Who else in tech startup land cashed out didn't let long-tenured employees do the same?