Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs. — Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz / @gergely.pragmati...
A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years
SemiAnalysis : X: @staysaasy , @lefttailguy , @blader , and @mjolley22 X: @staysaasy : @blader To put it in another context: If these guys were Sole Proprietorships or single person LLCs, they'd be p...
A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years
Meta's shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine. X: @staysaasy , @lefttailguy , @blader , and @mjolley22 X: ...
Memecoin MIRA, created to fund research into a brain tumor affecting tech CEO Siqi Chen's daughter, hit an $80M market cap before falling as Chen began selling
- After his young daughter, Mira, was diagnosed with a type of rare brain tumor, tech CEO Siqi Chen turned to X with a heartfelt plea …
A look at Daylight Computer's DC1, a 10.5-inch, $729 tablet that feels like a hybrid of an iPad and a Kindle and runs on a custom Android-based OS called SolOS
already compatible with #Obsidian and the new e-ink mode I created for it. X: Ian Harber / @ianharber : “It's a tool, not a master... it doesn't try to consume you... technology that feels a little bi...
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel
https://medium.com/... X: Dr. Ks / @katejsim : Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power 🔥 ...
OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 10 partners, including HeyGen
but Won't Release the Tech Yet Cade Metz / New York Times : OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tec...
Flexport raised $260M from Shopify, one of its biggest shareholders; Shopify sold its money-losing logistics unit to Flexport in exchange for equity in May 2023
Report Threads: Ran Reichman / @ranreichman : I don't understand this on two accounts: 1. Flexport CEO said they have a fortress balance sheet quite recently. 2. Why does Shopify need this? X: Austi...
Flexport raised $260M from Shopify, one of its biggest shareholders; Shopify sold its money-losing logistics unit to Flexport in exchange for equity in May 2023
Report FreightWaves : Flexport raises $260M from Shopify Threads: Ran Reichman / @ranreichman : I don't understand this on two accounts: 1. Flexport CEO said they have a fortress balance sheet quite ...
Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern
You are probably sick of hearing about OpenAI palace intrigue … Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : OpenAI Is Close to AI Breakthrough That Could Threaten Humanity: Report Kate Seamons / Newser : Reuters:...