A look at Neo, a VC firm that made early bets on startups including Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds far above industry averages
The venture firm, led by CEO Ali Partovi, illustrates the growing gulf between a few top performers and the industry medianLinkedIn:Yuliya ChernovaandHadi PartoviLinkedIn:Yuliya Chernova:The 2021 vent...
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 ...
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”
But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape its algorithm Sean Bur...
A look at some implications for generative AI: “answer engines” replacing search engines, AI mastering cognitive tasks by surveilling how experts work, and more
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Tweets: @krishnanrohit , @buccocapital , @carnage4life , @dkthomp ...
An interview with NIST mathematician Dustin Moody on the agency's recently selected “quantum-resistant” encryption algorithms
I got this question from a friend this week: Jenna Inouye / eSecurityPlanet : New Quantum-safe Cryptography Standards Arrive None Too Soon Tweets: Will Cathcart / @wcathcart : Great work to ready cryp...
The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years
AR makes a spectacle Nathan Ord / HotHardware.com News : Microsoft Inks $22 Billion Deal To Supply Modified HoloLens AR Headsets To US Army Troops Kris Graft / Gamasutra : Controversial Hololens milit...
Jeff Wilke, Amazon's CEO of Worldwide Consumer, will retire from the company in 2021; senior VP of retail operations Dave Clark will succeed him
Earlier today, Jeff Wilke announced his retirement from Amazon after over two decades with the company. Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal : Jeff Wilke, Early Amazon Executive and Lieutenant to J...
Q&A with Hadi Partovi on starting Code.org, working on IE at Microsoft, what he is looking for in startup founders, and teaching computer science in schools
David Gelles / New York Times : Tweets: @levesquepat , @dkhos , and @hadip Tweets: Patricia Levesque / @levesquepat : All students should learn #computerscience. “...computer science is as important ...
Profile of angel investor and Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi, who now manages Neo, a fund that matches talented young engineers with tech industry veterans
s venture capitalists mingled with members of the Golden State Warriors at a fall 2016 cocktail party, tech investor Ali Partovi scrambled to find something to talk about. Tweets: @apartovi , @robot_m...
Q&A with Hadi Partovi on starting Code.org, working on IE at Microsoft, what he is looking for in startup founders, and teaching computer science in schools
The founder and chief executive of Code.org, who was born in Iran, says computer science is a “foundational skill,” … Tweets: @dkhos , @hadip , and @levesquepat Tweets: Dara Khosrowshahi / @dkhos : Fr...