Sources: Apple cut dozens of sales roles to streamline sales to businesses, schools, and governments; Apple says the changes affect “a small number of roles”
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Michael Grimes, a banker known for handling Uber's and Airbnb's IPOs, is managing Trump's new investment accelerator, amid legal and congressional uncertainty
Politico : X: @rossputin and @vtg2 X: Ross Kaminsky / @rossputin : I sure do hate this a lot. https://www.politico.com/... I lot of folks on the left improperly use the word “fascist” to describe any...
Brain Co., co-founded by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, and others to help enterprises and governments use AI, comes out of stealth with a $30M Series A
Kushner teamed up with prolific solo investor Elad Gil and Luis Videgaray, the former Mexican foreign minister, to launch Brain Co. … Bluesky: @seanokane Bluesky: Sean O'Kane / @seanokane : we're at t...
Sources: Meta is discussing moving its incorporation from Delaware to Texas or another state, after Elon Musk's similar moves; the change wouldn't affect its HQ
if they go to Texas it's more evidence of zucking up to Musk by Mark. It makes no sense from any legal perspective. — If they land in Nevada, it's because they don't like corporate governance respo...
Several media and tech executives say UK VC Matt Clifford, who has advised successive Tory and Labour governments, has an outsized influence over AI policy
British venture capitalist has advised successive Tory and Labour governments — Last year, as thousands of customers withdrew … X: @nickswan73 , @hkanji , @james_coe1 , and @krishnanrohit . LinkedIn...
Q&A with Taiwan's ex-Digital Minister Audrey Tang on Plurality, a book on collaboration-enhancing tech she wrote with Microsoft's internal economist Glen Weyl
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk : X: @vitalikbuterin , @ebothorel , @coindesk , and @chrisblanduk X: @vitalikbuterin : Glen @glenweyl and Audrey @audreyt , two people whose thinking I highly respect and that ...
A profile of DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who was just knighted, as some wonder if he can navigate Google's bureaucracy and turn AI research into great products
What About the Return? Paul Sawers / TechCrunch : Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’ Threads: Jacky / @jjackyliang : https://www.bigtechnol...
Duolingo cuts ~10% of its contractors, partly attributing the move to its use of more generative AI to create app content
Welcome to r/Duolingo. This subreddit serves as a forum and a resource … X: Reid Southen / @rahll : Duolingo laid off a huge percentage of their contract translators, and the remaining ones are simpl...
A history of Digital Equipment Corporation, founded in 1957 to build small digital modules, pioneered minicomputers before being acquired by Compaq in 1998
I found out most of this while putting together my GTC documentary but this is a great recap. @portershed @johnbreslin @ATU_GalwayCity https://arstechnica.com/... @louismcdonald : Long gone, DEC is st...
Twitter terminated its head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko this week, and CISO Rinki Sethi will depart in the coming weeks; both execs joined Twitter in 2020
Market summary: 📊 — Brutal week in the market finally ends. Steve Zurier / scmagazine.com : What's it mean? Making sense of Twitter's decision to oust ‘Mudge’ Zatko and Rinki Sethi Kris Holt / Engad...