Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after more than 30 years with the company and plans to retire; CFO Amanda McMaster will take over as interim CEO
Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, has stepped down from the company. Playter took over as CEO in 2019 and led the company through its acquisition by Hyundai in 2020.
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after more than 30 years with the company and plans to retire; CFO Amanda McMaster will take over as interim CEO
Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, has stepped down from the company. Playter took over as CEO in 2019 and led the company through its acquisition by Hyundai in 2020.
A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M+ dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison
U.S. prosecutors say the Taiwanese operator of the $105 Million Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymity tools …
Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business by February 2026, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips for AI data centers, amid a supply shortage
because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics : Micron to exit the consumer memory and storage market in favor of AI data center customer...
Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information : X: @km , @danprimack , @everettrandle , @scottbelsky , @everettrandle , @zebulgar , and @benchmark X: Kanyi Maqubela / @km : @EverettRandle @benchmark much con...
a16z hires ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram as general partner overseeing AI infrastructure and growth investments and as a managing partner, replacing Scott Kupor
Nearly 30 years ago, I hired Raghu Raghuram to be a product manager at Netscape.
Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work
all 3 @UofCalifornia professors. Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation and possibility, California is proud to dream big and deliver even bigger. @e...
Dell says CFO Yvonne McGill will resign effective September 9 after nearly 30 years with the company and names SVP David Kennedy as interim CFO
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The Winklevoss twins have become major GOP donors; a source says they've donated $32M+ since 2017, including $21M to a new pro-Trump and pro-crypto super PAC
There's a new megadonor force in Republican politics: the crypto-mogul Winklevoss twins. … - “Who are the donors going to be for the next 20 to 30 years?
A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks
championed by colleagues like @trevordarrell, @pabbeel, @istoica05, and others—is leading the nation, unleashing the creativity of top students and research labs through industry-sponsored open-source...