Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push — Melissa Heikkilä in London …
OpenAI VP of Media Partnerships Varun Shetty says OpenAI didn't put too many guardrails in Sora because it doesn't “want it to be at a competitive disadvantage”
Plus, Ex-Sequoia partner Matt Miller launches a London-based fund & Mira Murati's AI lab releases its first product
An inside look at ex-unicorn Builder.ai's demise, which oversold its AI platform's abilities and frustrated customers with delivery delays and buggy products
In our new feature, we set out to find the truth. X: Varsha Bansal / @varshaabansal : Inside the collapse of London's hottest AI startup https://builder.ai/. This is a story about AI washing with the ...
Sources: Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd says Bumble's “center of gravity” will move to the US where the “talent pool is right now”; 70% of its staff is UK-based
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London-based Metaview, which builds AI tools to automate hiring, like via interview notetaking and job description generation, raised a $35M Series B led by GV
Recruiting, which is heavy on admin, is ripe for disruption when it comes to developing AI tools.
Sources: ~300 London-based DeepMind staff have sought to unionize with the CWU in recent weeks, to challenge AI sales to defense groups and Google's Israel ties
Move by employees at Google's AI arm follows discontent after weapons and surveillance pledge is dropped
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is building a London-based team focused on consumer health by poaching staff from a similar Google DeepMind unit he once led
Rival companies are racing to create lucrative applications from cutting-edge technology — Microsoft's artificial intelligence …
An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the company's London listing, establishing a sales department, single-board device assembly in Wales, and more
Jonathan Moules / Financial Times : X: @__neha and @sairee X: Neha / @__neha : TIL Raspberry Pi is a publicly traded company which spun out an education focussed charity. Interesting origin story htt...
Sources: JD.com founder and chair Richard Liu has been quietly leading the company from overseas, primarily in London, despite stepping down as the CEO in 2022
Despite stepping down as chief in 2022, Richard Liu has continued to quietly steer the business from London
A profile of Shein's executive chair Donald Tang, who has become the public face of the company as he leads its expansion overseas and prepares for a London IPO
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