a16z moves its state of incorporation to Nevada, saying that “Delaware courts can at times appear biased against technology startup founders and their boards”
a16z.com/were-leaving... X: @writeclimbrun : wow. a16z is leaving Delaware for Nevada. the blog post is crazy. https://a16z.com/... @bhorowitz : We are outta Delaware and now in Nevada https://a16z.co...
Filing: KoBold Metals, which uses ML to help it sift through datasets to identify large deposits of various metals, has raised $491M of a targeted $527M round
Earlier this year, Kobold Metals found what might be one of the largest high-grade copper deposits of all time … X: @mattrosoff X: Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : Humongous round for a startup that uses A...
Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation; it came out of stealth with $31M in August
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : X: @mattrosoff X: Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : SCOOP from @ingridlunden Black Forest Labs, the company that powers Grok's image generation, is raising another $100M on a $...
A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges “potentially fraudulent activities” as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation
TechCrunch : Threads: @lorakolodny . X: @sokane1 , @techcrunch , and @mattrosoff Threads: Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : Whatever happened to TuSimple? They're trying to pivot. https://techcrunch.com...
LLMs aren't sentient; they lack the physiological states required for sensations like hunger and pain, and thus can't have subjective experiences of such states
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the term used to describe an artificial agent that is at least as intelligent as a human … Bluesky: @motomatters.bsky.social and @zitron.bsky.social X: @vsikka...
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high jinks” of OpenAI's “edge lords”, and more
' I don't think we can have a conversation about disinformation without having a conversation about the role of massive homogenous platforms that have cannibalized … @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.h...
The US DOJ's Apple lawsuit has many parallels to its Microsoft lawsuit in the 1990s, but Apple's monopoly position is not nearly as clear-cut as Microsoft's was
“Apple inhibits third-party smartwatches from maintaining a reliable connection with the iPhone.” — To be fair, Apple does that to its own smartwatches too. X: Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur : We t...
Kuo: Vision Pro demand is higher than Apple originally expected, with US shipments expected to hit 200-250k units this year; return rates are now below 1%
but a cheaper model could be here sooner Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : Kuo: Apple Vision Pro on Track to Launch in More Countries Before WWDC in June Nick Soong / Appleosophy : Kuo: Major Upgrade for Vi...
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 23% YoY to $34.15B, net income up 164% YoY to $11.58B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.14B for September 2023
that's what the Ray Ban glasses are for Ryan Deffenbaugh / Investor's Business Daily : Meta Earnings Crushed Targets. Why Is The Stock Falling Anyway? Yuvraj Malik / Reuters : Facebook-parent Meta bea...
Documents and sources undermine Flexport founder Ryan Petersen's claims that CEO Dave Clark overspent, overhired, and overpromised before being forced to resign
Peterson decides to return as CEO, unceremoniously ousts Clark, rescinds offers to a bunch of new hires then blames Clark for overhiring. … Jenn Schiffer / @jenn@pixel.kitchen : a real “read all the w...