Nvidia-backed startup Nscale disclosed Friday that revenue had surged 10 times in the first half of this year from the year-ago period, but losses mounted as the cloud startup spent billions on data centers and the AI chips they’ll house.
The two-year-old UK startup, a spinout of an Australian ...
In a room full of IT professionals, words and phrases like “tokenization,” “retrieval-augmented generation,” and “context window” need no explanation. But when technology leaders present to their CEOs and other company leaders about topics like AI, they often find that they need to translate these terms into everyday business language, or else risk being met by blank stares.
In the moment, this can be maddening. You know the opportunities and challenges that a technology like generative AI presents for your company. And you know that the organization’s other leaders will likely see things the same way you do, if only you can make yourself understood.
Instead of trying to bridge this communication gap on the fly, use Google Gemini to help translate your technical vision into bottom-line business value.
Step 1: Figure Out What You Want to Say
Your CEO might not speak “tech,” but Google Gemini does. Open up a new chat and explain exactly what it is you hope to communicate to leadership. Here, you can feel free to be as technical as you wish. Maybe you’ll tell Gemini that you’re thinking of building a RAG pipeline to vectorize your company’s proprietary data. Or, maybe you’ll float the idea of using parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods like LoRA to deploy open-weight models on-premises, without exploding your cloud inference costs. You can even upload your technical documents to Gemini, directly in the chat window.
No matter how in-the-weeds you get, Gemini will follow your train of thought, parsing the complexity to find the business value at the core of your plans.
Step 2: Let Gemini Be Your Translator
Now that you’ve captured your vision in your own words, let Gemini help you translate those words into language that will connect with your audience. Use this sample prompt, along with your brainstorming from Step 1:
I am the CIO at [company], and I am trying to build the case to [adopt generative AI solutions]. I need to explain the technical concept of generative AI to a non-technical audience (the CEO and board). Help me write talking points that will help me convey what generative AI is, ways it could help us digitally transform, and why it’s important to our growth as a company. Include details about how it could potentially re-focus our technical talent on more strategic work, help enhance our workforce’s productivity, and help us better serve our global workforce and customers.
In just a few moments, you’ll have a set of boardroom-ready talking points. Gemini might, for instance, break down the benefits of RAG in simple terms by noting that it anchors AI to internal data like HR policies and technical manuals. Or, it might point out the business benefits of arming IT staff and engineers with generative AI tools, noting the opportunity to shift employees’ focus from low-value, repetitive tasks to innovation.
Step 3: Create Content
Now that you have your core narrative and language nailed down, Gemini can help you create a more structured pitch. Instead of staring at a blank slide deck, prompt Gemini for ideas on how to build out a presentation that will sway your peers in the C-suite. Try this prompt:
I need to build a presentation to deliver this information to the board. Turn these talking points into a 10-slide presentation. For each slide, write a headline, three to four short bullet points for the slide itself, and the speaker notes I should use to explain the concept out loud.
Gemini will generate a full, downloadable presentation deck directly in the chat. If you like, you can export the presentation to Google Slides and make your own edits. Or, you can command Gemini to generate a new version with changes to elements like design, language, and narrative flow.
Step 4: Make Gemini Your Sparring Partner
Before you go into your meeting, open a new chat in Gemini, providing your speaker notes and a link to your presentation, and then ask it to act as a skeptical executive: You are my CEO. Review this presentation and grill me on cost, security, and ROI. Ask your toughest questions, one at a time.
Even though Gemini helped you prepare your presentation, it will seamlessly pivot to the role of rigorous executive or tough board member, pressing for more details on project payback, hidden risks, and timeline. By practicing your pitch in this low-stakes environment, you can make certain that you’ll be confident when it’s time for the real thing.
CoreWeave said on Friday it had priced $3.7 billion in convertible bonds, more than the AI cloud provider had previously said it was targeting.
The convertible senior notes will be due in 2033 and carry a coupon of 2.875%, at the top of the pricing range marketed to investors and up from the ...
Rising alarm about AI’s perils is thrusting into the spotlight a collection of little-known research groups focused on the technology’s safety—and fueling questions about their ability to effectively monitor the industry’s biggest companies.
Both Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promised in recent days to embed evaluators from such outside research organizations inside their companies to help ensure they develop AI at a safe pace. Other executives including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also endorsed the idea of embedding independent evaluators in companies.
A secretive Chinese AI model startup founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor is now valued at more than $1.4 billion, after raising $400 million in three funding rounds from investors including Tencent, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
Beijing-based Naive AI is preparing to release its first large language model as early as this month, joining the country’s fierce LLM competition as a newcomer, according to the person. The startup plans to release it as an open-weight model, similar to offerings from DeepSeek, Moonshot and Alibaba that people can download for free and customize to their liking.
Ro Khanna, a Democratic congressman for Silicon Valley, has sent letters to Chinese AI companies including Alibaba Group, DeepSeek and Moonshot, requesting their commitments to join American AI labs in a binding international agreement to pace the development of the technology.
Khanna, a ranking ...
A team of cybersecurity researchers with startup Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI, gaining access to a key repository of OpenAI’s software, the researchers revealed Thursday.
The hack, which occurred on July 25, further demonstrates AI companies’ vulnerability to ...
This week, we and others reported that OpenAI has been in early talks with investors about a new private round that could value it at $1.2 trillion or more. That follows CEO Sam Altman’s recent statement that an initial public offering wouldn’t happen this year, not that anyone was actually expecting that!
There are plenty of unanswered questions about the recent turn of events. But the biggest—why stay private?—seems obvious. It buys the company more time to rev up sales without the pressure of disclosing on how much it’s paying for that growth, such as offering margin-crushing discounts to lure business from rival Anthropic.
It’s not just humanity that AI folks worry the new technology could wipe out—it’s publishers as well! (Publishers are, of course, people!) That’s what we learned from a court filing today by a group of news publishers including The New York Times Co. in a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. The filing cited an OpenAI executive writing—presumably in an internal memo—that publishers face “an existential threat” from AI products.
We knew the publishers worried that AI threatened their existence—The New York Times Co. made that point when it sued OpenAI and Microsoft back in 2023 (the case has since been consolidated with similar lawsuits filed by other publishers). What’s striking is that OpenAI and Microsoft internally acknowledge the threat—and recognize the implications for them as well. “Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time. It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers,” according to a Microsoft document cited in the filing.
OpenAI and law firm Cooley co-launched a product, called GO Public, that can draft S-1 filings, the document companies must submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission before they can go public, Cooley said Thursday.
Lawyers at Cooley can prompt GO Public, which also has access to Cooley ...
OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX’s Cursor unit as its new global sales chief, reporting to recently hired Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic, the AI firm said Thursday.
In addition, two veteran sales executives from Snowflake, including a senior vice president who helped negotiate the ...
Greg Jensen, the managing chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, said demand growth for AI infrastructure is largely priced into markets. As a result, Bridgewater has begun looking for investment opportunities elsewhere.
“We thought this was ...
Microsoft executives expressed concerns in recent years that OpenAI’s use of paywalled articles from the New York Times and other publishers to train its models could pose legal issues, and OpenAI executives discussed how doing so could threaten those publishers’ businesses—but OpenAI proceeded ...
While the AI industry ties itself in knots over models it thinks will pose security threats to the internet and perhaps to humanity itself, researchers are warning about flaws in AI coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft that pose immediate risk to businesses.
For instance, a recently discovered (and now largely fixed) software flaw in Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot would have let attackers hijack other people’s coding agents without them noticing, according to new research shared exclusively with The Information.
The research, published by Sequoia Capital-backed cybersecurity startup Air, discovered the same flaws in the way all four of those coding agents handle “skills” that direct agents to refer to a set of instructions and files to execute specific tasks.
Greg Jensen, co–chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates, thinks the top holders of AI compute warrant extra regulation, similar to what governs the world’s biggest financial institutions.
If a company controls more than, say, 5% of U.S. or global compute, it should be subject to heightened oversight, “like we do with systemically important banks,” Jensen said. In a wide-ranging interview, he also discussed Bridgewater’s growing use of AI in investing and where it still remains cautious, including leaving risk controls and trade execution to what he called “human-driven algorithms.”
CoreWeave said on Thursday that it could sell up to 35 million shares, worth roughly $3 billion based on the prior day’s closing price, through a new at-the-market offering program. At the same time, the company announced plans to raise $3 billion in a convertible note issue, with an option for ...
Remember when OpenAI landed in hot water earlier this month after mathematicians accused the company of trying to steal their thunder for solving an ultra-difficult math problem? (I know it feels like a million years ago given all the news cycles since then.)
Well, it turns out OpenAI is close to solving another math problem from the Millennium Prize Problems, a set of seven famous math challenges including that earlier “Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem,” according to a person with knowledge of the solution.
Employees expect the next problem, known as the Hodge Conjecture, to be solved relatively soon, the person said. The Hodge Conjecture asks whether certain geometric features of shapes defined by polynomial equations can always be described using simpler algebraic pieces. It could take the company longer to announce the solution, though, because it’s trying to figure out how to collaborate with the math community to make the announcement without triggering another PR nightmare, the person said.
Money, technical savvy and disruptive ideas all matter within the technology industry. But the most seismic force is influence. Those who have it build, fund and steer the companies that alter the world—again and again. Those without it can only rise so far.
So who’s got that clout? You’ll find the answer by poring over our new list: the 50 Most Influential People in Tech. It isn’t just a snapshot of influence today. Coming up with such a list would be a relatively simple exercise. Rather, we’re providing a roster of the people we believe will have the most influence over the next decade, a more complex task that The Information is uniquely well positioned to pull off.
Huawei Technologies plans to launch its new AI chip in the first quarter of 2027, nine months earlier than planned, as it steps up its efforts to challenge Nvidia.
Tao Wang, Huawei’s deputy chairman and rotating chairman, said at the Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai on Thursday that the new ...
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