A profile of Mercor, a Scale AI rival valued at $2B in February, which hires domain experts to train models; it had a $100M run rate in March and $6M H1 profit
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. X: @richardjnieva . LinkedIn: Sundeep Peechu and Peter Fenton . Bluesky: @dannygroner X: Richard Nieva...
Q&A with Google DeepMind Director John Jumper on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, merging predictive AI and LLMs, advancing AlphaFold, rival labs, and more
Richard Nieva / Forbes : X: @richardjnieva X: Richard Nieva / @richardjnieva : I chatted with Google DeepMind director John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry earlier this month for his wor...
A profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who orchestrated one of the great tech turnarounds after her 2014 takeover, as the company prepares to battle Nvidia over AI chips
AMD's CEO orchestrated one of the great turnarounds in Silicon Valley history, driving the dying semiconductor maker's stock price up nearly 30-fold in less than a decade. Tweets: @richardjnieva , @al...
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...
Interview with Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer, on whether YouTube is a media company, content moderation, demonetization, and more
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Facebook updates mission statement to “give people power to build community, bring the world closer together”, from “making the world more open and connected”
For anyone still wondering if Mark … Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Facebook changes its mission statement Simon Sharwood / The Register : Facebook gives itself mission to ‘bring the world closer’ by gettin...