Clearview AI co-founder and President Hoan Ton-That resigns, after stepping back as CEO in December 2024, and says he will continue serving as a board member
After he led the company through controversy and lawsuits, the company struggled to secure big federal contracts. — Now, Clearview is focused on selling to the Trump border effort and the Pentagon. ...
Meta appoints Joel Kaplan as Chief Global Affairs Officer, replacing Nick Clegg, who is leaving the company; Kaplan is Meta's most prominent Republican
www.semafor.com/article/01/0... [embedded post] Sam Jeffers / @worklesshard : Seems a bit backward for Clegg to leave now. Nothing will happen in the US for years, while EU DSA enforcement will gath...
Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July
tech oligarchs depend heavily on their access in washington, so will do everything they can to keep it. a16z desperately wants washington to legitimize crypto, so they can get a return on their signi...
An excerpt from the book “Character Limit” on Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction
In an excerpt from their new book, Character Limit, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac detail how Musk's “goons” … Bluesky: @ishaav.bsky.social . X: @rmac18 , @rmac18 , and @ranimolla Bluesky: Isha / @ishaav.bs...
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum
Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick / iMore : Is Twitter ...
The Meta Connect keynote felt overscripted and “incredibly thirsty”; the long pitch for VR and the metaverse came off as one of tech's hardest sells in a decade
humanize the company and the work in this space in particular — but it just feels forced with these memorized scripts. “Totally.” Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : Also interesting Zuckerberg brings out Accenture ...
Former TikTok and ByteDance staff say TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's power is limited, with ByteDance's founder and other executives making most decisions
Shou Zi Chew, TikTok's chief executive, is balancing how to be an autonomous leader while juggling the demands of the app's Chinese parent company. Tweets: @rmac18 , @niubi , @rmac18 , and @rmac18 Twe...
Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out “Meta accounts” for new and existing Quest users
and that's a win-win for Zuck Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system Nick Statt / Protocol : Why Meta is killing Facebook logins for VR Tech Advisor : B...
[Thread] A look at Kraken's announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans
for the simple reason that no one (including the owner) would be permitted to make political statements or gestures of any kind on the job. It would be a place to work, and not an extension of the cul...
Facebook says it will spend $5M on multi-year deals with 25 local journalists for its Bulletin newsletter
Facebook Inc (FB.O) has chosen 25 local independent journalists to be paid out of a $5 million pot to write for its newsletter site Bulletin through multiyear deals, the company told Reuters on Thursd...