Figma CEO Dylan Field forfeits ~$46M in stock awards to revive investor confidence amid AI disruption fears; FIG is down ~77% from its peak more than a year ago
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Interviews with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other executives about Anthropic's origin, Claude, why DeepSeek isn't a threat, reaching AGI safely, more
The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic …
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk's Twitter
The long shadow of James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution. — Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” … Tweets: @pt , @greenplusane , @lemieuxlgm , @paulblu , @davidastinwalsh , @davidas...
A profile of COO Javier Olivan, who has become Meta's “unofficial fixer” and has had a hand in all of the company's major competitive battles and acquisitions
In 2008, Facebook was offered only in English—and struggling to expand internationally. Tweets: @kurtwagner8 , @russellsieg , @jason_kint , @bqprime , @pbandjaimie , @bangtheclose , and @alexbarinka T...
A profile of Father Paolo Benanti, an engineer and ethicist who advises theologians and priests, including Pope Francis, on moral and ethical issues in AI
On February 26, two days after war broke out in Europe for the first time in decades, Father Paolo Benanti walked briskly through the centre of Rome dressed in a hooded robe. Tweets: @joaoaclaro , @fi...
US tech firms are “nearshoring” Latin American talent, lured by cheaper costs and similar time zones, leading to staffing shortages at tech firms in the region
As a hedge against American talent poachers, some exasperated founders are recruiting developers who can't speak English.
Q&A with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke on his typical day, time management, culture, product creation, organizational design, meetings, and working from home
Sriram Krishnan / The Observer Effect : Tweets: @polina_marinova , @mcannonbrookes , @bwertz , @tobi , @harleyf , and @iamjakestream Tweets: Polina Marinova Pompliano / @polina_marinova : I mean, thi...
Amid the boom in AI, Silicon Valley's tech giants have taken their talent hunt for engineers and researchers to Cambridge, UK
A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry's biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city. Tweets: @matthausk , @cademetz , @satariano , @nytimes , an...
Tech giants see partnerships with community colleges via apprenticeships, certifications, and degrees as a way to attract a skilled and more diverse workforce
As student debt mounts and a shortage of skilled workers persists, students find their local two-year institution could be a lower-cost shortcut to a good job. Tweets: @elenaholodny , @valaafshar , @m...
Coding schools and startups in Mexico's growing tech hub in Guadalajara are increasingly courting US-raised deported Mexicans and English-speaking tech workers
U.S.-raised millennials deported back to Mexico are helping to drive a growing tech sector south of the border Tweets: @davidluhnow Tweets: David Luhnow / @davidluhnow : Meet Hola Code, the Mexican co...