Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the trade-offs with Route Share, Uber's business structure, autonomous vehicles, working with fleet operators, and more
Today, I'm talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. We recorded this conversation the day Uber announced a big set of product updates … Bluesky: @edzitron.com , @martinsfp , @marypcbuk , and @reckles...
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf says current AI development paradigms won't yield outside-the-box problem solving that leads to true scientific breakthroughs
AI company founders have a reputation for making bold claims about the technology's potential to reshape fields, particularly the sciences. Bluesky: @prietschka and @martinsfp X: @thom_wolf , @thom_wo...
Source: Meta plans to break up its civil rights team, which helped develop tech to address racial and other disparities in how Meta distributed ads on its apps
Kalley Huang / The Information : Bluesky: @martinsfp and @jaydolan . X: @ericnewcomer Bluesky: @martinsfp : One sad part of this is ‘this would be a bad look’ wasn't even a factor that stopped them. ...
Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 staffers, amid industry-wide cutbacks
The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019 — Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday … Threads: @thekenyeung , @markstenberg3 , @martinsfp , and @frederi...
Ten years after Google killed Reader, the team that built the much-beloved app reflects on what went wrong and what could have been
Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been. Bluesky: @dogaker.bsky.social . Mastodon: @mihaip@hachyderm.i...
Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs were “automated or from bots”
Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together. LinkedIn: Michael Jackson . B...
Meta briefed some creators on Instagram's decentralized text-based app that may launch in June 2023 with a Twitter-like design, Mastodon compatibility, and more
Meta's hosting secret meetings with select creators to share details — [a sneak peek at Instagram's new text-based app] Tweets: @liahaberman , @marvelle , @smacula , @michaelguimarin , @martinsfp , ...
Twitter seemingly removed a journalist's tweet about India's Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand”
The Hindu : Tweets: @officialsauravd , @martinsfp , and @akhmxt . Thanks: @aroondeep See also Mediagazer Tweets: @officialsauravd : “My tweets have been withheld not just in India, but worldwide. I d...
Character.AI, recently valued at $1B, will likely face legal battles for brazenly letting users make and share chatbots of famous people or fictional characters
Brad Stone / Bloomberg : Tweets: @martinsfp and @bradstone Tweets: @martinsfp : Why didn't they cut deals with IP holders? If the answer is ‘the tech is currently too risky’ then why let users sully ...
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative co-founded by a former director at Google's Area 120 to offer a “2007 Twitter” vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer does
Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer supplies. Tweets: @martinsfp , @reversechapter , @micsolana , @epro...