An interview with Marcos Galperin, the CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on deciding to resign, MercadoLibre's rivalry with Amazon, and more
Bloomberg : LinkedIn: Brad Stone and Patrick Gillespie LinkedIn: Brad Stone : Is there anyone more directly responsible for the economic transformation of Latin America than Marcos Galperin, founder ...
A profile of Joseph Firmage, who co-founded USWeb, which went public with a $2.5B market cap in 1997, and is now being sued by “antigravity machine” investors
Joseph Firmage helped create today's digital economy. These days, he's being sued by antigravity-machine investors … X: @bradstone and @bw . Forums: Slashdot X: Brad Stone / @bradstone : Wild, out-of...
A look at a lawsuit from 64 families against Snap that alleges Snapchat's design is responsible for connecting teens to dealers selling counterfeit drugs
Snapchat is currently being sued by the families of teens who allegedly bought drugs from dealers who they were recommended to follow. … X: Brad Stone / @bradstone : Another remarkable story from @liv...
A look at a lawsuit from 64 families against Snap that alleges Snapchat's design is responsible for connecting teens to dealers selling counterfeit drugs
“I'm a survivor, and that's bad for you, CEO of Snapchat, because, uh, uh, uh ...” Michael Brewer can't finish his sentence. Bluesky: @rachaelmyrow . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @livcarville ,...
Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies
and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta: ‘Human-...
How deepfake porn victims in NYC suburb Levittown helped convict the perpetrator, a former classmate, an ordeal further complicated by the lack of clear US laws
A group of young women in a New York City suburb, horrified to learn their photographs had been manipulated and posted online, took matters into their own hands. Bluesky: @leahnylen.bsky.social . X: @...
Sources: Amazon is hiring Microsoft's former CPO Panos Panay to run the Alexa and Echo unit; longtime hardware chief Dave Limp said in August he is retiring
it's a little hard to imagine Surface, especially, without Panos Panay. I was also unaware that Charles Simonyi was still involved with Microsoft. https://www.theverge.com/... X: Patrick Moorhead / @...
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs an EO on AI risks, directing state agencies to examine AI threats and authorizing state staff to experiment with AI tools
studying risks & harnessing opportunities. CA leads the world in AI with 35 of the top 50 AI companies. We're showing how to ethically & responsibly use AI. https://www.gov.ca.gov/... @stanfordhai : B...
Researchers say hate speech and misinformation on Twitter are up; CEO Linda Yaccarino says that's “incorrect” and touts improvements, like ad placement controls
Coupled with $13 billion of debt, the company is in more than a shaky position. … Twitter: @twitterbusiness : To our partners, we want to address a recent Bloomberg article which claims that harmful c...
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...