SignalFire: in 2024, Big Tech employment declined 1.6% in Austin and startup employment fell 4.9%; Dallas, Houston, Denver, and Toronto employment also declined
AI's centralization in Silicon Valley, Austin's fluctuating living costs, and in-office work requirements are driving the shift. [embedded post] LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette : “It's kind of dead.” ...
California regulators close SVB and name the FDIC as the receiver to protect insured deposits; SVB ended 2022 with ~$209B in assets and $175.4B in deposits
banks, lawyers, etc — and it's a minor but not insignificant screening mechanism. https://twitter.com/... Jason Zweig / @jasonzweigwsj : If you want to create a perverse incentive for banks to become ...
How Substack is trying to balance the constraints of its own ideology of putting authors and readers first with its commitment to growth via its new mobile app
In the Spring of 2018 I got invited by the CEO of Substack to come to Toronto for a couple days to hang out with the whole team … Tweets: @nbashaw , @shortformernie , @navalang , @faris , @marshallk ,...
Jim Keller, a star chip designer at Apple, AMD, Tesla, Broadcom, and Intel, has joined Toronto-based Tenstorrent, a startup building AI chips
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A look at Toronto's growth as a tech hub, selling itself as a gentler, kinder version of Silicon Valley
The Canadian tech hub is selling itself as an antidote to the tech industry's worst impulses. But what does that entail? — It is a frigid February day when I visit Communitech …
A detailed history of the important but under-recognized roles women have played in computer coding, from Ada Lovelace through to today
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Says Company ‘Never Overpromised’ on Watson A.I. Tweets: Stacey E. Singleton / @staceynycdc : When Wilkes talks to today's young coders, they are often shocked to learn that wome...
Sources: Amazon in late-stage talks with several cities including Crystal City, VA, Dallas, New York for HQ2, may place smaller operations in runner-up cities
What Happens Next to Tech Stocks Worldwide Nat Levy / GeekWire : Amazon reportedly in ‘late-stage’ discussions with HQ2 finalists New York, Dallas and Northern Va. Rick Smith / WRAL TechWire : Report:...
Ann Cavoukian, a key privacy expert in joint Toronto and Sidewalk Labs smart city project, has quit, citing opposition over proposed data collection practices
Wired neighborhood planned by Google sister company has raised questions over data protection — When it was announced last year …
Profile of Geoffrey Hinton, a neural net pioneer at the University of Toronto, Google, and now the Vector Institute, which aims to stop Toronto's AI brain drain
Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years hammering away at an idea most other scientists dismissed as nonsense. Then, one day in 2012, he was proven right. Tweets: @marijamijalko , @lockstockbarrl , and @toron...
Founding partners of Teehan+Lax, the design firm behind Medium, join Facebook
Teehan+Lax shutting down as partners join Facebook — A new era begins for the Toronto design community as the founding partners of Teehan+Lax announced this morning they are shutting down the compan...