How JD Vance played a key role in the TikTok US deal, amid concerns about the VP acting as a corporate dealmaker in the forced spin-off of a private company
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How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023
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Source: at an OpenAI all-hands meeting, Ilya Sutskever defended Sam Altman's ouster as necessary to protect OpenAI's mission of making AI beneficial to humanity
and the fallout Brian Fung / CNN : OpenAI: Why Sam Altman was fired and what's next after the shocking shakeup Patrick Cooley / The Messenger : Sam Altman's Supporters Pressure OpenAI Board to Bring H...
Sources: Meta is giving some VR developers compensation packages of $600K to $1M, significantly more than most gaming companies, despite a push to rein in costs
salaries and perks were relatively low and a lot of indie stuff + startups were in same ballpark. By ~2015 or so, it was vastly different order of magnitude with comp/perks and no-brainer for lots of ...
Twitter's ex-head of Trust & Safety on why he resigned: a Twitter whose policies are defined by unilateral edict has little need for a trust and safety function
Twitter isn't going anywhere. $44 billion corporations … Luc Olinga / TheStreet : Elon Musk Bids Farewell to Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Mitsuwo Note : Strange coincidence between Elon Musk and Ji...
Yelp closes its NY, Chicago, and Washington DC offices as CEO Jeremy Stoppelman doubles down on remote work and calls hybrid offices “the worst of both worlds”
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Sources: Google will extend its work from home policy until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees
a year from now — making it the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable. Partly to give staff maximum family flexibility. One year from now. https://www.wsj.com/... @arain...
Two sources say that after political and community opposition in New York City, Amazon executives have had internal discussions to explore alternatives for HQ2
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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:...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $2B Bezos Day One Fund, which will create a network of nonprofit preschools and fund charities that help homeless families
is this better than just taxing the wealth of the richest man in the world, and making that money democratically accountable? https://twitter.com/... Laszlo Bock / @laszlobock : Bravo @JeffBezos. I wi...