SPVs and growth-stage allocations

The Information’s Stephanie Palazzolo talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI agent startup Manus and the biggest inflection points of the 2025 AI race. We also talk with SuRo Capital’s Willy Lee about the future of Neoclouds like CoreWeave and OpenAI’s competitive risks, and Aaron Tilley joins to predict how Apple will reverse its AI slump in 2026. Finally, we get into whether Elon Musk actually met his ambitious 2025 goals for Tesla and SpaceX with our reporter Theo Wayt.

Articles discussed on this episode: 

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/2026-predictions-apple-will-reverse-ai-slumphttps://www.theinformation.com/articles/top-ai-themes-2025-watching-next-year

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/metas-acquisition-values-manus-2-billion

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/meta-acquires-manus-ai-agent

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