The Information's TITV Nvidia, Amazon & Microsoft Eye $60B Investment in OpenAI, Tesla vs Waymo Robotaxi Race | Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026 
Yevgeny Dibrov, CEO who sold Armis to ServiceNow to speed cybersecurity integration. Ross Gerber, investor and Tesla commentator weighing Tesla’s shift to robots and the robo-taxi race. Tomasz Tunguz, VC tracking cloud, earnings, and enterprise SaaS trends. They discuss a possible $60B+ investment in OpenAI, cloud capacity and compute pressures, robo-taxi economics, and why Armis chose acquisition over IPO.
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AI Uplifts Meta's Core Ads Revenue
- Meta's revenue per user is rising strongly and AI-driven recommendation improvements are materially boosting ads ARPU.
- The company can sustain heavy capex and debt because core ads growth is accelerating.
Open Source Models Don’t Preclude Monetization
- Meta may mix open-source and closed models and can monetize both via its data center hosting.
- It's unclear whether future Meta models will remain open-source or move to closed releases.
Azure Growth Constrained By Data Center Capacity
- Microsoft faces a data-center capacity constraint limiting near-term Azure expansion, with being "sold out until 2026."
- Heavy OpenAI concentration in Microsoft’s backlog adds revenue uncertainty tied to AI customers' growth.