Internal memo: Noam Shazeer, the ex-CEO of Character.AI who joined Google this month, will be Gemini co-technical lead and work with Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals
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Intuit Mailchimp plans to shut down TinyLetter on February 29, 2024, to focus on its core Mailchimp marketing product; Mailchimp acquired TinyLetter in 2011
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Sources: Mira Murati tried to calm shell-shocked employees in a companywide meeting following the firing of Sam Altman
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X Head of Brand Safety Elyana Thierry left in June per her LinkedIn page, months after being elevated to the role after the previous head resigned in the summer
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Source: Twitter laid off ~40 ad optimization data scientists and engineers, as the company targets areas that leadership considers to be failing or unimportant
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Bolt Financial laid off 185 employees, or about one-third of its workforce; some have to repay loans they took from the company for vested shares within 90 days
The Daily Brief is a free glimpse into the prevailing fundamental … Lindsey Choo / Protocol : Bolt lays off employees in a company restructuring Erin Woo / New York Times : Bolt, the payments start-up...