The Information Weekend

The Big Read

The Instant Oral History of ‘Trench Foot Burning Man’

Tech pros tell their personal survival stories from this year’s mud-stuck (but still epic) desert bacchanal.

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The Most Epic

The Venture Capitalist Who Was Attacked by Orcas

Adventurer: James Currier, founding partner at NFX, co-founder of Tickle, Wonderhill, IronPearl Escapades: Long-haul sailing, Himalayan treks, snow camping It was 10:40 p.m. one night this June...

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Margaux MacColl

The 1:1

The Head of the Anti-Defamation League Wants to Make Peace With Elon Musk

By the time Jonathan Greenblatt jumped on the phone at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time this Wednesday, he had already made the rounds on CNN, CNBC and MSNBC. It had been a high blood pressure day for the...

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Jon Steinberg

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo engaged in a high-wire act of diplomacy during her four-day trip to China. Photo of Raimondo via Getty Images. Collage by Clark Miller.

The Big Read

‘Excited and Terrified’: On a High-Stakes Trip to China, Gina Raimondo Confronts a Complex Future

From a motorcade speeding through Shanghai, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce talks to Jessica Lessin about AI, TikTok and Beijing’s ‘uninvestible’ present.

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Jessica Lessin

The 1:1

Selling a Vision, and a $2 Million Hypercar, at Pebble Beach

The chassis lurking under the skin of most cars is a pretty pedestrian thing—mostly sections of stamped and welded steel perforated with mounting points for the engine, suspension and everything...

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Tim Stevens

Czinger cofounders Lukas Czinger (center) and his father Kevin Czinger. Collage by Clark Miller. Photography courtesy Czinger

Scene and Heard

Inside Silicon Valley’s New Boys Club: The Testosterone-Testing ‘T Party’

Early one Saturday morning in August, a dozen men—a mix of startup founders, software engineers, designers and one professional Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master—gathered inside a small San...

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Zara Stone

Subscriber Survey

The Brain-Body Investment Survey: What 500 Subscribers Are Spending to Boost Their Performance

From hyperbaric chambers to red-light therapy, adult surf camps to adaptogenic lattes, here’s how much time and money Information subscribers are allotting to their physical and mental health.

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Annie Goldsmith

Mogul Studies

Yacht Brinkmanship: Owners of Tech’s Biggest Pleasure Craft Compete to the Ends of the Earth

If you’re Sergey Brin, Evan Spiegel, Jan Koum, Jeff Bezos, Laurene Powell Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Yuri Milner or any one of dozens of other modern-day tech moguls, it’s not enough to just own a yacht....

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Andrew Zucker

From left, megayacht owners Jan Koum, Jeff Bezos, Barry Diller, Diane von Furstenberg and Evan Spiegel. Art by Clark Milller

Market Research

Market Research: The AI Boom Expands to the Hair and Makeup Counter

Selin Tyler was frustrated. The director of product marketing and business operations for Dolby Technologies was stuck in what she called “a cycle of trial and error” with her skin. She turned to...

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Beth Shapouri

The Big Read

‘Don’t Put Your Head in the Sand’: Stars Are Quietly Inking Deals to License Their AI Doubles

As generative AI companies multiply, celebrities and their estates are starting to see the profit potential in digital twins.

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Julia Black

Electric Slide

Waiting for Cybertruck: Some Tesla Customers Have Lost Faith During the Long Road to Production

Nearly four years after its bombastic public debut and two years after it was initially supposed to ship, Elon Musk’s curveless, futurama Cybertruck is finally crawling off production lines and...

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Tim Stevens

Animation by Clark Miller; Cybertruck courtesy Tesla.

Market Research

Education Meets Insulation: Bento Boxes, Smartwatches and Other Back-to-School Buys

Janine Sickmeyer, the founding partner at seed and pre-seed firm Overlooked Ventures, was trying to find a low-tech way to occupy her four kids under age 8. She, like many of her Silicon Valley...

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Annie Goldsmith