How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
Kevin Tierney / @catholicsmark : Well yes, in order to survive CBS needed to have less bias in its newsroom. Why is this surprising? Steve Rosenbaum / @magnifymedia : https://www.nytimes.com/.... Does...
Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage
THE SCOOP — Software engineers at the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike complained about rushed deadlines, excessive workloads … X: @rachyljones , @hkanji , and @nullvoxpopuli . LinkedIn: James Bach . ...
How Les Wexner, Victoria's Secret billionaire owner, made early investments in Atlantic Crypto, which then turned into CoreWeave, netting him a $720M stake
Forbes : X: @_iainmartin , @_iainmartin , and @hkanji X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : A 86-year-old retail billionaire (with a complicated legacy) might be one of the big winners from investing in th...
A look at the different approaches to AI integration and modularization taken by Google, AWS, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, and Databricks, and the implications
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Threads: @moatiful . X: @peibolsang , @madscapital , @jimmysopko , @rkrishnakumar , @1stleighton , @jonesonthenba , @4jimlee , @megangra , @madscapital , @borrowed_ideas ...
A look at the trademark dispute over the name AGI House between two rival hacker houses, one in Hillsborough and the other in Twin Peaks in the Bay Area
to centralize power & capital. SF wants AGI Houses to blossom across the world to usher in the global intelligence age. Noah Smith / @noahpinion : This explains why whenever anyone asks me if I know A...
A look at Nvidia's AI startup investments through Nventures and its corporate development team, deals that come with intangibles, like access to research teams
Richard Nieva / Forbes : X: @alexvoica , @alexrkonrad , @richardjnieva , and @hkanji X: Alexandru Voica / @alexvoica : Working with Nvidia's world-class research team and having NVentures as an inves...
A look at Nvidia's AI startup investments through Nventures and its corporate development team, deals that come with intangibles, like access to research teams
The trillion-dollar chipmaker has done over two dozen deals, through its Nventures investing arm and corporate development team. X: @alexvoica , @alexrkonrad , @hkanji , and @richardjnieva X: Alexandr...
OpenAI's GPT Store debut is reminiscent of Facebook Platform's 2007 launch, which allowed Facebook to use third-party developers' products to boost stickiness
The whole endeavor has a strong Facebook-in-2007 vibe. OpenAI is beginning the search for its FarmVille. — www.theatlantic.com/technology/ a... X: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : This has a pretty strong...
Documents: sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich quietly invested $63M+ in European startups via London VC firm Target Global between 2015 and 2021
Venture capital fund Target Global managed tens of millions of dollars for Roman Abramovich and helped the now-sanctioned oligarch build … X: @hkanji , @_iainmartin , @_iainmartin , @giacomotognini , ...
A profile of data labeler Scale AI, which has a $249M contract with the US DoD and was the first AI company to have an LLM deployed on a classified network
the tech behind chatbots such as ChatGPT — deployed on a classified network after it signed a deal with the Army's XVIII Airborne Corps.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Charles Rollet / @charlesr...