Sources: Eric Schmidt has spent the last few months working on Hooglee, an AI startup that describes its mission as “democratizing video creation with AI”
Sarah Emerson / Forbes : Bluesky: @criticismkumar , @tompaine1776 , and @lauridonahue . X: @mathewi Bluesky: @criticismkumar : Close enough, welcome back Gavin belson [embedded post] @tompaine1776 : ...
Court filings: X has moved its official headquarters to Bastrop, Texas, a small town just outside of Austin that's also home to SpaceX and The Boring Company
Sarah Emerson / Forbes : X: @sarahnemerson X: Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson : Scoop: In new Elon Musk court filings, X revealed it has officially moved its headquarters to Bastrop, Texas. The compan...
A look at the trademark dispute over the name AGI House between two rival hacker houses, one in Hillsborough and the other in Twin Peaks in the Bay Area
to centralize power & capital. SF wants AGI Houses to blossom across the world to usher in the global intelligence age. Noah Smith / @noahpinion : This explains why whenever anyone asks me if I know A...
Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues
the company's new chip plant allegedly plagued by worker abuses Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2207: TSMC's Arizona culture clash, Apple preps new iPads, Vision Pro forecasts cut, AI pois...
A profile of Ryan Breslow, the founder of Bolt, whose $355M Series E in 2022 set off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with early backer Activant
Forbes : X: @_iainmartin , @friedmandave , @lukejohnsonrcp , @leomschwartz , @sarahnemerson , @dannygroner , and @alexrkonrad X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : Ryan Breslow was dancing barefoot in a ge...
Interviews, pitch decks, and documents suggest that the recent success of Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has been bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims
Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people … LinkedIn: Jon Lam . Bluesky: @carnage4life.bsky.social . Tw...
A profile of Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, which outsources ~240K workers via its subsidiary Remotasks to label the data used to train AI systems
hundreds of thousands of them — powering AI. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @ycombinator : “There's two things I deeply believe. One, AI is a huge force for good, and it needs to b...
Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, for allegedly stealing ~$10.5M of the project's seed funding
Forbes : Tweets: @jelenaaa____ , @moo9000 , @sub8u , @carnage4life , @evacide , @yoda , @hkanji , and @sarahnemerson Tweets: Jelena / @jelenaaa____ : Brutal, but in many ways not surprising that this...
Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, accusing him of stealing ~$10.5M of the project's seed funding
Billionaire tech founder Ryan Breslow is locked in a legal battle over the alleged theft of millions of dollars belonging to a nascent crypto project, Movement DAO. Tweets: @carnage4life , @sub8u , @e...
FTX posed as a haven from tumbling currencies and inflation in Africa, where the company recruited users via glitzy events, $5 sign-up bonuses, and giveaways
Alexandra Wexler / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @gksteinhauser , @sarahnemerson , @peterguest , @counternotions , and @drewhinshaw Tweets: Gabriele Steinhauser / @gksteinhauser : “For my community, ...