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 : ...
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...
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...
Lyft, which gave some drivers free PPE, launches a PPE store for drivers; it's unlikely it can give away PPE regularly without conceding drivers are employees
Sarah Emerson / OneZero :
While tech companies push remote work for their employees, gig workers receive little support amid COVID-19 outbreak and face income loss for self-quarantine
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Source: Uber harassment findings result in 20+ fired after 215 claims investigated; a separate Eric Holder-led probe has sent recommendations to board
including some senior employees — after internal investigation Janet Burns / Forbes : Uber Has Fired 20 In Wide Discrimination Probe, Including Some Senior Execs Richard Chirgwin / The Register : Uber...
Uber CEO Kalanick tells staff in memo that former US AG Eric Holder has been hired to probe sexism allegations, and Uber will begin publishing diversity reports
We're all outraged at Uber - again. Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg : Uber CEO Apologizes for Company Culture After Harassment Claims Arianna Huffington / Uber Global : Update from Arianna Huffington Alexan...