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Mike Isaac / New York Times :
Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China
and Uber might help Natalie Lung / Bloomberg : Uber in Talks With Kalanick to Fund Pony.AI Bid, NYT Says Mike Isaac / The Straits Times : Uber in talks with founder to help buy US unit of China's self...
OpenAI says board member Fidji Simo will lead its business and operations teams in her new role as CEO of Applications, overseeing sales, marketing, and finance
Mike Isaac / New York Times : X: @mikeisaac X: Rat King / @mikeisaac : ceo of Instacart leaves to become sub-ceo of OpenAI under Altman not sure what “applications” entails (sam please elaborate if y...
RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup Nike acquired in 2021, is shutting down by the end of January 2025; DefiLlama: RTFKT brought in nearly $50M in earnings
an early Web3 fashion success story — is folding Jason Newey / NFT News Today : Nike-Owned RTFKT to Shut Down Operations by January 2025 Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Nike-owned NFT wearables RTFK...
Analysis: tech layoffs in 2024, which Layoffs.fyi estimates have totaled 25,000 across ~100 companies so far, are more strategic than the mass layoffs in 2023
Mike Isaac / New York Times :
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 /...
New York Times reporter Mike Isaac is writing a book about Uber for W. W. Norton, due out in 2019
Peter Kafka / Recode : Tweets: @fmanjoo , @kylebrussell , @pkafka , @dcseifert , and @mikeisaac See also Mediagazer Tweets: Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo : Congrats to the worst person http://twitter.com/...
Uber's crisis was a failure of oversight and shows founders should be constrained by lieutenants, mentors, and a forceful board of directors
Lost Today, hoping to be Found! Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Even after forcing Travis Kalanick out as Uber CEO, investors sing his praises Mike Isaac / New York Times : Trav...
Airbnb Appoints Chris Lehane, Former Aide to Bill Clinton, as Head of Policy
Mike Isaac / New York Times :
Unicorns aggressively recruit employees from Silicon Valley giants, with Airbnb poaching over 100 workers and Uber targeting Google's mapping unit
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