A look at Palantir's new four-month “Meritocracy Fellowship” for high school graduates, which offers a path to a full-time Palantir job without a college degree
I'm 100% choosing the palantir grad every single time. … Dileep Rao, Ph.D. : Alex Karp: Is College a Waste? — Alex Karp is encouraging students to dump college to work for him. This is a very inter...
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit bus...
Elon Musk's $97.4B OpenAI offer could force OpenAI's board to reassess how it is valuing the nonprofit, which could cost Sam Altman even though he rejected it
Trump's clashes abound Euan O'Byrne Mulligan / The i Paper : Elon Musk-led group of investors bid $97bn for ChatGPT maker OpenAI George Bunn / GB News : Elon Musk shut down by ChatGPT boss after launc...
Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US
Meta is ending its DEI programs Bradley Cortright / New York Sun : Meta Abandons its DEI Programs Days Ahead of Trump's Inauguration Edith Olmsted / New Republic : Mark Zuckerberg Goes Full MAGA With ...
Sources detail what happened at OpenAI in the build-up to Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other
the OpenAI chief scientist who helped fire Sam Altman then backtracked—should jump ship for xAI or Tesla Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI's Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions Gary Marcus /...
Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more
Today we announce the formation of xAI. The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Reuters : Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI Kara Carlson / USA Tod...
Medium founder Ev Williams is stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by Coach.me CEO Tony Stubblebine; Williams plans to start a new holding company/research lab
Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. Coach Tony : Hello Medium readers, authors, editors and publishers Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Ev Williams calls it quits as CEO of M...
Profile of Bret Taylor, Salesforce's new COO and the architect of its $27.7B acquisition of Slack, who might one day succeed Marc Benioff as CEO of the company
Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle : Tweets: @owenthomas , @martinsfp , @cherylszee , @jeffjarvis , @zlurie , @sfchronicle , @louisgray , @hbrucejohnson , @demianbulwa , and @kfury Tweets: Owen Th...
As Yahoo puts itself up for sale, early employees known as “surfers” recall building the company's directory
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Back in the mid-1990s, before Google even existed, the world's best guides to the internet sat in Silicon Valley cubicles, visiting websites and carefully categorizing them by hand...
A first-person narrative on the allure and anxiety of working at a Silicon Valley startup
Uncanny Valley — I would say more, but I signed an NDA. — MORALE IS DOWN. We are making plenty of money, but the office is teeming with salespeople: well-groomed social animals with good posture ...