Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a code review could average $15-$25 in token usage
A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI's CEO in November 2023
which is why you never find anyone from the Bilal Zuberi / @bznotes : Since it is @JoshuaKushner appreciation day, I should mention how he interned at General Catalyst in Boston wh...
The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom net...
Apple says COO Jeff Williams will step down in July, overseeing design and health until he retires later in 2025; SVP of Operations Sabih Khan will become COO
Apple Inc. Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is retiring as the company's longtime No. 2, marking a major changing of the guard …
China sanctions Skydio, the US' largest drone maker and a supplier to Ukraine's military; sources say Skydio is rushing to find new suppliers for critical parts
Skydio, the US's largest drone maker and a supplier to Ukraine's military, faces a supply chain crisis after Beijing imposed sanctions …
Boston-based Maven AGI, which offers AI agents for customer support, comes out of stealth after raising $28M, including a $20M Series A led by M13
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Nominal, which offers tools for data analysis, testing, and more to startups building advanced hardware like drones, emerges from stealth with $27.5M in funding
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A look at the current AI philosophy landscape of existential pessimism vs. accelerationism, and the need for a balanced, enterprising optimism as the third way
Cosmos Institute He and fellow founders briefed me recently and they have ambitious focus. 🧵 Chris Petkas / @chris_petkas : Keep an eye on @mbrendan1, he's exploring beautiful pers...
What Biden's EO means for AI openness, and why a compute threshold is unlikely to effectively anticipate individual models' riskiness, but may work in aggregate
Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details — The Biden-Harris administration has issued an executive order on artificial intelligence.
A comparison between US data and 5,100 Stable Diffusion-generated images related to job title and crime finds the tool amplifies gender and racial stereotypes
of some some logical and objective thinking machine. — In reality generative AI, is just fancy autocomplete based on its training data. So it'll always reflect the biases of its...
In a virtual address to a conference in Beijing, OpenAI's Sam Altman called for global cooperation on AI safety and said China should help shape the guidelines
China should play a key role in shaping the artificial intelligence guardrails needed to ensure the safety of transformative new systems …
Xerox donates the Palo Alto Research Center, which the company founded in 1970 and spun out as a wholly owned subsidiary in 2002, to nonprofit SRI International
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Uber Eats plans to remove 5,000 virtual brands to declutter its app and introduce guidelines to stop restaurants from listing multiple brands with the same menu
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Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities
Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities — Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25bn share sale …
Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning in late 2023 to 2024, as companies run out of cash from “free rounds” fueled by low interest rates
The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation.
Amazon's Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time
Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
Leaked audio from 80+ internal TikTok meetings: ByteDance staff in China repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022
For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States …
Spotify publishes its long-standing Platform Rules and says it is working to add a content advisory to podcast episodes that discuss COVID-19
A decade ago, we created Spotify to enable the work of creators around the world to be heard and enjoyed by listeners around the world.
Profile of Hemant Taneja, who became the sole managing partner of General Catalyst in 2021, as the firm raises a seed, venture, and growth fund totaling $4.6B
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