Erin Woo

“A lot of the early OpenAI people have achieved financial independence already. At some point, people are seeing a $25 million offer, and they’re just like, ‘Well, after tax it’s half that.’” new from me, inside the AI talent draft: theinformation.com/articles/insid…

Scoop: Amazon is testing robots to deliver your mail. Years from now your robot dog can bark at them!

Scoop: Snap's head of revenue product, Darshan Kantak, is leaving, two weeks before Snap reports earnings. In April, Snap said it was experiencing “headwinds," and in June, Evan Spiegel said “there’s still a lot of uncertainty in the business environment" theinformation.com/briefings/snap…

Exclusive: Meta Hires Three Google AI Researchers Who Worked on Gold Medal-Winning Model Meta hires three AI researchers from Google DeepMind who worked on Gemini model that nabbed recent math award. Read more from @KalleyHuang and @erinkwoo 👇 theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Moar AI recruits to Meta! Scoop from @KalleyHuang and @erinkwoo theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

a day after Google celebrated its gold medal achievement in the International Math Olympiad, three of the researchers who worked on that team are already leaving for Meta scoop via @KalleyHuang and me theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

New: I teamed up with @elenalingshao and @nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: nytimes.com/interactive/20… This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

baby’s first icml 🥹 come say hi if you’re here!

NEW: Inside 96 hours of Windsurf whiplash: OpenAI talks broke down, Google brought out the velvet rope & Cognition sealed a deal. theinformation.com/articles/winds…

NEWS: OpenAI/Windsurf deal is off after the startup raised concerns on how it would fit into OpenAI's Microsoft IP deal and structure. Some execs, including CEO, are going to Google. Meta looked at the deal, too. w/ @MilesKruppa

Scoop: Google is staffing up its publisher-side adtech unit Google Ad Manager to market it better to big advertisers, who have been using rival adtech platforms in recent years. This could help publishers make more money from Google’s adtech, as tensions over AI escalate

In May, I wrote about the proliferating scourge of online hate speech against athletes, particularly in the WNBA. That day, one of the owners of the Chicago Sky emailed me, asking to be introduced to some of the security experts I interviewed. Today, they announced a partnership

Things are getting weird

We're starting to get a clearer picture of the mission of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Investors who have spoken to her are describing it as "RL for businesses." w/ @erinkwoo @rocketalignment: theinformation.com/articles/ex-op…

three years!!! thank you to all of my colleagues and all of the sources who have spoken with me for a story. and if you haven't: no time like the present 😎

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

Google unveiled several new AI-powered features in its efforts to defend its search business from the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Read more from @erinkwoo and @anngehan 👇 theinformation.com/articles/googl…

Remember California's landmark deal with Google to fund local newsrooms? Nine months later, Gavin Newsom's cutting $20 million from the state's commitment to cash-strapped local newsrooms as California faces a $12B budget deficit. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

Scoop: TikTok is working on allowing U.S. users to send photos over DMs in the app—something that's currently restricted. But some employees have raised concerns about the risk of sextortion and other abuses. w/ @kyurieff theinformation.com/articles/tikto…

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