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The Briefing

Elon Musk Strikes Unusually Cautious Tone on Tesla Call

By Theo Wayt · Apr 22, 2026 5:00pm PDT
Tesla’s earnings calls are usually freewheeling affairs, with pulsating electronic music and wildly optimistic projections from CEO Elon Musk, who often likes to crack crude jokes and giggle. Today was different. Instead of the typical sci-fi rhapsodies about self-driving vehicles taking over the world and robots solving poverty, Musk spent much... Tesla’s earnings calls are usually freewheeling affairs, with pulsating electronic music and...
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AI Agenda

Are OpenAI and Anthropic Moving Away From Reasoning Tech?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Apr 22, 2026 7:05am PDT
Elon Musk rocked the business world again by announcing Tuesday that his rocket-satellite-social media firm SpaceX has signed a deal agreeing to buy AI coding app Cursor for $60 billion at an undisclosed later date or else SpaceX would pay a $10 billion breakup fee.It’s one of the biggest acquisitions of a venture backed startup ever, though it’... Elon Musk rocked the business world again by announcing Tuesday that his rocket-satellite-social...
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Tencent, Alibaba in Talks to Invest in DeepSeek at $20 Billion-Plus Valuation

By The Information Staff · Apr 22, 2026 4:17am PDT
Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising for the first time, according to four people with knowledge of the conversations. DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management, is now seeking to raise funding at a valuation of more... Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI...
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Dealmaker

Venture Capital’s Showing in the Epstein Files

By Laura Mandaro · Feb 3, 2026 6:16pm PST
On Monday, our reporter Jemima McEvoy broke the news that venture capitalist Masha Bucher had deep ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Their correspondence, released in a dump of more than 3 million pages from the Justice Department Friday, showed Bucher—née Drokova, the name she was using at the time—working as a publicist for... On Monday, our reporter Jemima McEvoy broke the news that venture capitalist Masha Bucher had...
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Epstein Files Reveal Deep Relationship With Venture Capitalist Masha Bucher

By Jemima McEvoy · Feb 2, 2026 1:10pm PST · 10 comments
There are plenty of tech luminaries whose correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in the files of the disgraced financier. But few of those exchanges are quite like those that Epstein had with Masha Bucher, who is now a well-known venture capitalist. On June 25, 2019, 11 days before Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking... There are plenty of tech luminaries whose correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in...