A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware giant readies AI tools for game development and to help players sharpen their skills
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Microsoft shut down Skype on May 5, capping a remarkable 21-year run for software that for many embodied the open internet and had 300M+ users in its heyday
you were right about almost everything WPXI-TV : End of an era: Skype is officially shut down Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : It's the end of the road for Skype Hassam Nasir / Tom's Hardware : Microsoft ...
Gili Raanan's VC firm Cyberstarts has helped launch successful startups like Wiz, but faces ethical questions about an industry executive profit-sharing program
Forbes : X: @nicoleperlroth , @alexrkonrad , @alexrkonrad , @alexrkonrad , and @alexrkonrad . LinkedIn: Robert Hansen X: Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth : This @Forbes piece on Cyberstarts sheds li...
Kyle Vogt, who resigned as Cruise CEO six months ago, raised $150M for The Bot Company, a household robot startup, sources say at a $550M post-money valuation
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A profile of Ryan Breslow, the founder of Bolt, whose $355M Series E in 2022 set off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with early backer Activant
Forbes : X: @_iainmartin , @friedmandave , @lukejohnsonrcp , @leomschwartz , @sarahnemerson , @dannygroner , and @alexrkonrad X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : Ryan Breslow was dancing barefoot in a ge...
How AI defense tech developer Rebellion Defense is struggling to survive after failing to win a US DOD contract, losing its founders, and shuttering its UK arm
Forbes : X: @drleostrauss , @mideastxmidwest , and @davidjeans2 X: @drleostrauss : Cautionary SV-DoD tale. $1 billion 🇺🇸 SV defense sector AI start up. Chased DoD contracts without an actual core pro...
OpenAI's new interim CEO Emmett Shear has made some head-turning posts on X, from slowing down AI development to theories about women having rape fantasies
and likened working for Microsoft to selling his soul Matthew Loh / Business Insider : Both the CEO of OpenAI and the biggest investor of OpenAI still don't seem to know why Sam Altman was fired CoinG...
Source: at an OpenAI all-hands meeting, Ilya Sutskever defended Sam Altman's ouster as necessary to protect OpenAI's mission of making AI beneficial to humanity
and the fallout Brian Fung / CNN : OpenAI: Why Sam Altman was fired and what's next after the shocking shakeup Patrick Cooley / The Messenger : Sam Altman's Supporters Pressure OpenAI Board to Bring H...
Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, for allegedly stealing ~$10.5M of the project's seed funding
Forbes : Tweets: @jelenaaa____ , @moo9000 , @sub8u , @carnage4life , @evacide , @yoda , @hkanji , and @sarahnemerson Tweets: Jelena / @jelenaaa____ : Brutal, but in many ways not surprising that this...
Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital
YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community. https://www.forbes.com/... @initialized : News alert: Congratulations to @jenhwolf & @brettdg, our new managing partners. Jen & Brett joi...