Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more
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An interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and how his father's passing from an illness, four years before a breakthrough made it 95% curable, shaped his path
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X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who sold polling startup TBH to Facebook and teen-focused social network Gas to Discord, as its new head of product
Nikita Bier, a co-founder of tbh (acquired by Meta … Jason Nelson / Decrypt : Solana Advisor Nikita Bier Joins Elon Musk's X, Reigniting Crypto Payments Speculation Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media To...
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit bus...
A profile of DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who was just knighted, as some wonder if he can navigate Google's bureaucracy and turn AI research into great products
What About the Return? Paul Sawers / TechCrunch : Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’ Threads: Jacky / @jjackyliang : https://www.bigtechnol...
A look at Anthropic's governance structure: the company is a public benefit corporation with a separate, long-term benefit trust set to select most of its board
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How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the 2020s AI boom, causing a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the 1990s dot-com fever
it's chock full of historical perspective and excellent details RE the last several months of crazy— by @BradStone. https://twitter.com/... @scale_ai : “There are a lot of AI tourists pretending to be...
How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the AI hype cycle, resulting in a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the dot-com boom
In late May, 300 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists and assorted self-described thought leaders crammed into Shack15 … LinkedIn: Peter Leyden . Tweets: @business , @iporollo , @bw , @dina...
Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg's efficiency drive, layoffs, Meta's absentee leadership, and focus on the metaverse have devastated employee morale
Workers at Facebook's parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company's direction. Mastodon: @profcarroll@federate.social . Tweets: @om , @chrismichel , @shiraovide , @matthewstoller...
Sources: Twitter is leaving 12+ offices due to closures or not paying rent, including in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Mexico, Australia, South Korea, and India
its Asia-Pacific headquarters — over nonpayment of rent. Landlords walked employees out of the building Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : You must work in the office but there is no office. Figure it ou...