A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks
However, it is somewhat puzzling when journalists describe … Byron Cook : Sharing a profile piece. Journalist John Pavlus followed me around off/on for a week as I worked in the pacific northwest. … ...
OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers to candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for teaching AI in the coming months
here's what CEO Sam Altman revealed at the White House tech dinner Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : OpenAI to launch jobs platform linking employers and AI experts Shubhangi Chowdhury / The American ...
Source: the CEO and the chief people officer of Astronomer were put on leave after a video of them cuddling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert went viral
claims staffers ‘enjoying’ Coldplay kiss cam drama: 'Everybody's laughing their ass off' Jessica Wang / Entertainment Weekly : CEO and coworker caught at Coldplay concert under formal investigation by...
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”
techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c... [embedded post] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The AI acquisition moves fast. First, OpenAI ditched its Windsurf deal after clashing with Microsoft over IP. — Then ...
The exclusivity period for OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf, entered into in May, has expired
Google just Poached the CEO Instead Bloomberg Law : OpenAI's $3 Billion Deal to Buy AI Startup Windsurf Falls Apart Bluesky: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : This leaves Anthropic looking like a remarka...
Marc Benioff says “AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce”, like software engineering and customer service, and its AI product has hit ~93% accuracy
This ratio sounds hard to fathom but if true I expect shareholders will push to see increased business results or layoffs as they have 30%-50% more employees than they need. Brutus / @itsillegaltobeme...
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors
This former OpenAI CTO has doubled that and retains full voting rights over the board members. @cuibonobaby : “carrying on an undertaking of great advantage but nobody to know what it is”. 😂🤣 Sean O'...
Inside Japan's Disco Corp, which makes ~75% of the world's chip cutting tools, and where no staffer has a boss, with decisions made using a currency called Will
It's the start of another day for an ordinary Tokyo salaryman. On a rain-drenched Monday morning, the engineer stows … Bluesky: @quinnypig.com , @danielfos.co , @skamille.themanagerswrath.com , @cybe...
Marc Andreessen says VC may be one of the last fields safe from AI after it replaces most workers, as it requires “intangible” skills like psychological insight
gizmodo.com/marc-andrees... Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : “ChatGPT, you were at Netscape in the 90s and won the lottery. Give me advice on how I too can win the lottery of a bygone era.” [embedded ...
CoreWeave's S-1 reveals its three co-founders own less than 3% of Class A shares after cashing out ~$488M, but still control ~80% of votes via Class B shares
Julie Bort / TechCrunch : Bluesky: @kellblog , @quinnypig.com , and @silversalty Bluesky: Dave Kellogg / @kellblog : Uh, I think that's bad for corporate governance Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : If ...