Satya Nadella says “it's very clear that something has to change around the governance” of OpenAI no matter where Sam Altman ends up
These are fundamentally incompatible and it was bound to lead to hard tradeoffs eventually. … X: Emily Chang / @emilychangtv : The more I watch this interview - the wilder this story seems. Satya insi...
Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty
think there shouldn't be a paying option anymore... Dave Weisberger / @daveweisberger1 : https://www.wsj.com/... It is tiresome to read SBF's half truths. 1/ His claims about Binance are ludicrous. Th...
A look at HoloLens' development, as Microsoft spurned an early lead in AR to cede ground to Meta and others; one executive blames a lack of money and people
Problems plagued development of its HoloLens augmented reality headset; ‘we had the opportunity to own this market’ Tweets: @joepwilliams31 , @jeffhorwitz , @aatilley , and @ericbellmanwsj Tweets: Jos...
Adobe plans to buy UI design and prototyping tool Figma for ~$20B, half cash and half stock; CEO Dylan Field will continue to lead Figma; ADBE closed down 16.8%
Today, we're announcing that Figma has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Adobe. TechCrunch : After the Figma-Adobe deal, which design startups are acquisition targets? Wall Street Journal : ...
Interview with CEO of DocuSign, whose sales grew 57% YoY to $431M in Q4, on its plans to expand beyond e-signatures as the market heated up during the pandemic
Adobe's co-founder invented the PDF! https://www.protocol.com/... @protocol : Electronic signatures have been legal since President Bill Clinton signed off on legislation in 2000. But it took a pandem...
An oral history of Amazon's cloud storage service S3, which debuted 15 years ago to store 20B objects and has scaled to store 100T objects by 2020
Tom Krazit / Protocol : Tweets: @_msw_ , @storagezilla , @joepwilliams31 , @tomkrazit , and @owenthomas Tweets: Matthew S. Wilson / @_msw_ : Here's another great article about the revolutionary shift...
An oral history of Amazon's cloud storage service S3, which debuted 15 years ago to store 20B objects and has scaled to store 100T objects by 2020
In late 2005, Don Alvarez was just another software entrepreneur struggling to get a new business off the ground when a friend working … Tweets: @joepwilliams31 , @tomkrazit , and @owenthomas Tweets: ...
An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies
because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moderation employee at By...
Sources say ScaleFactor, which raised ~$100M to automate bookkeeping before blaming COVID-19 for its closure, used dozens of human accountants instead of AI
Kurt Rathmann told his big-name investors he had developed groundbreaking AI to do the books for small businesses. In reality, humans did most of the work. Tweets: @davidjeans2 , @dannygroner , @davi...
Inside the illicit world of “iCloud unlocking”, where cybercriminals trick iPhone owners or Apple staff into removing an iCloud account to resell the iPhone
In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to “unlock iCloud” from iPhones. Tweets: @josephfcox , @jason_koebler , @jason_k...