An interview with Morris Chang on starting TSMC at the age of 55, the company not designing or selling its own chips, returning to Taiwan from the US, and more
Morris Chang had decades of experience before he founded a business that's indispensable to the global economy. X: @rmnth , @angler_deepfish , and @aparanjape LinkedIn: Anthony Soohoo , Subra Shankhar...
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...
Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications
Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @pranavab47 , @aparanjape , @mouserelec , @kaeshour , and @helengreiner Tweets: Pranav Bhounsule / @pranavab47 : Boston dynamics does not use machine learning ...
Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications
Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @aparanjape , @mouserelec , @kaeshour , @pranavab47 , and @helengreiner Tweets: Amit Paranjape / @aparanjape : By now, most of you would have seen those amazin...
In memo to employees, Bezos says face mask orders for workers are unfilled due to short global supply, and that his time is now “wholly focused” on COVID-19
There's a debate emerging … Justine Coleman / The Hill : Amazon doubling overtime pay for warehouse workers Georgina Torbet / Digital Trends : Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers, but hol...
Larry Ellison is hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump next week; while Ellison has consistently backed Republicans, he wasn't a major Trump donor until now
the most significant display of support from a major tech titan for the president, by far,” @teddyschleifer reports https://www.vox.com/... Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : “It signals what I and m...
The Pentagon needs Silicon Valley's brightest minds to work on AI but struggles to attract them because of job instability, poor compensation, and more
Amy Webb / Wired : Tweets: @aparanjape and @nxthompson Tweets: Amit Paranjape / @aparanjape : “Using #AI techniques, a military can “win” by destabilizing an economy rather than demolishing countrysi...
YC founder Paul Graham dispenses new advice in interview: why college-age founders are too young, how competition only killed 1 out of 1,900 YC startups, more
Yesterday, as part of some of its newest programming for startup founders, the startup incubator Y Combinator posted a new interview … Tweets: @aparanjape , @angeladuckw , and @garrytan Tweets: Amit P...