Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of “AGI Deployment”
Alex Heath /Sources:
Inside Kalshi's NYC HQ on election night, as it processed ~$100M in trades and called the mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani 36 minutes before any media outlet
Alex Heath / Sources : Bluesky: @alexeheath.com See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Alex Heath / @alexeheath.com : did a very NYC tech thing last night sources.news/p/election-n... See also Mediagazer
Q&A with Bret Taylor, CEO of Sierra and chairman of OpenAI, on Sierra's AI customer support agents, AGI, Sam Altman's comments on the AI bubble, and more
Welcome to Decoder. This is Alex Heath. For my final episode as your Thursday guest host, I recently sat down with Bret Taylor …
Q&A with David Luan, head of Amazon's AGI research lab, on leaving Adept in a reverse acquihire deal, why he believes progress on AI models has slowed, and more
Why Amazon AGI Labs chief David Luan thinks solving agents is the next ‘S-curve’ for AI. Bluesky: @prietschka . Mastodon: @jukkan@mstdn.social . Threads: @alexheath . X: @rohitprasadai . LinkedIn: Ju...
Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down, replaced by Humam Sakhnini effective April 28; Citron will stay on the board and become a CEO advisor
to help friends talk while playing games—has grown into something far bigger than I ever imagined. I'll be transitioning to a new role as Board Member and Advisor, and continuing to support Discord t...
Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the “Metaverse” product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called “Wearables”
wearables experts have said for years that a key to making an on-face wearable a success is making it as light/comfortable/useful as... well... a pair of glasses. Alex Heath / @alexeheath : Some news:...
Source: Ilya Sutskever, who has been nearly absent from OpenAI's affairs since Altman's brief ouster, is still in talks about remaining at the company
Simo is KNOWN for monetization. She helped Facebook monetize its mobile app. Hellman is a doctor and cancer researcher. Seligman is known for ... getting hacked? … X: Bindu Reddy / @bindureddy : Il...
S-1: Sam Altman has an 8.7% stake in Reddit, making him the third-largest shareholder, behind Advance Magazine Publishers, with 30.1%, and Tencent, with 11%
This makes him the third-largest shareholder in Reddit, behind Advance (30 percent) and Chinese tech company Tencent (11 percent). … X: Alexei Oreskovic / @lexnfx : Sam Altman is set to be one of bigg...
Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on managing the company after the failed sale to Adobe, maintaining culture, using the $1B breakup fee, expansion plans, and more
Figma has a billion dollars and big plans for expansion as it emerges from the acquisition with its ‘foot on the gas.’ — Happy Friday. Mastodon: @marcedwards@mastodon.social . X: @carnage4life , @ca...
Q&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on managing the company after the failed sale to Adobe, maintaining culture, using the $1B breakup fee, expansion plans, and more
Figma has a billion dollars and big plans for expansion as it emerges from the acquisition with its ‘foot on the gas.’ — Happy Friday. Mastodon: @marcedwards@mastodon.social . X: @alexeheath Mastodo...