Memo: Google names Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to chief technologist for AI infrastructure, reporting to Sundar Pichai
promote the guy behind its data center tech Kahekashan / The Hans India : Google Appoints Amin Vahdat to Lead AI Infrastructure Expansion Diya Lal / Tech in Asia : Google names new AI infrastructure c...
In an hour-long Q&A with reporters, Elon Musk talked DOGE, including acknowledging its shortcomings, leaving the US government, working with Trump, and more
though not always as much as he'd like — and said he still Shelby Talcott / @shelbytalcott : “DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism,” Elon Musk said at one point. He's shifting his focus back to his co...
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...
An interview with Sundar Pichai about Google joining a “Manhattan Project” for AI under Trump, playing the long game after ChatGPT launch, Gemini 2.0, and more
THE SCOOP — In an exclusive interview, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Semafor he's ready to work on a …
Kamala Harris is courting crypto investors and pro-crypto Democrats in Congress, as some prominent Democrats temper their initial skepticism of crypto assets
For Now Yves Smith / naked capitalism : Progressives Sound Alarm as Harris Courts Crypto Industry David Dayen / American Prospect : Not Enjoying the Mark Cuban for President Campaign Jasper Goodman / ...
Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage
THE SCOOP — Software engineers at the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike complained about rushed deadlines, excessive workloads … X: @rachyljones , @hkanji , and @nullvoxpopuli . LinkedIn: James Bach . ...
Q&A with Linda Moore, the CEO of TechNet, which represents OpenAI, Apple, and others, about the 400+ AI bills proposed across the US, tech backlash, and more
The Scene — While Congress is talking a lot about artificial intelligence but doing little to regulate it … X: @technetupdate . LinkedIn: Linda Moore X: @technetupdate : TechNet President and CEO @L...
Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool
Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool
Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the New York Times — Microsoft is working …
OpenAI's new interim CEO Emmett Shear has made some head-turning posts on X, from slowing down AI development to theories about women having rape fantasies
and likened working for Microsoft to selling his soul Matthew Loh / Business Insider : Both the CEO of OpenAI and the biggest investor of OpenAI still don't seem to know why Sam Altman was fired CoinG...