VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024
Venture capitalists are stepping in to cover expenses like rent while dropouts from Harvard to Stanford chase their startup dreams
Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan
Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan
Meta's long-time content policy chief Monika Bickert, who oversaw the writing and enforcement of Facebook's content policies …
Q&A with Harvard economist Jason Furman, who consults for OpenAI, on the similarities between the AI boom and the dot-com era, AI's impact on jobs, and more
A leading economist isn't overly concerned about the fallout from the AI bubble bursting, if it happens. But first... Three things to know:
Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from the OpenAI board, after a US House Committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein
Former Treasury secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, he and the company told Axios in separate statements Wednesday …
A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020
www.theguardian.com/news/ng- inte... Mastodon: Julian Oliver / @JulianOliver@mastodon.social : Interesting piece on Song-Chun Zhu, an influential ‘AI’ scientist who left the US after nearly 30yrs for ...
Meta appoints Joel Kaplan as Chief Global Affairs Officer, replacing Nick Clegg, who is leaving the company; Kaplan is Meta's most prominent Republican
www.semafor.com/article/01/0... [embedded post] Sam Jeffers / @worklesshard : Seems a bit backward for Clegg to leave now. Nothing will happen in the US for years, while EU DSA enforcement will gath...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg wants to get away from politics, pulling back from charitable causes that may seem partisan, tamping down employee activism, and more
It was only a little more than a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had few qualms about airing his politics. X: @fredbauerblog , @argojournal , @nick_field90 , and @teddyschleifer X: Fred Bauer / @fredb...
A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : X: @tobywalsh , @katejopling , @ronivey , @andrewyng , @chloeautio , @tfadell , @madhumita29 , and @dannygroner X: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : The loneliness cure: ...
A look at the Indian Institutes of Technology, established in the 1950s and 1960s to emulate MIT and now comprising 23 schools offering a path to tech success
Indian tech entrepreneur Kesavan Kandadai has many accomplishments under his belt: launching Amazon Prime Video in India and founding … X: @restofworld , @vickiturk , @restofworld , @russellbrandom , ...