Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly “agentic” young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley
Tech's new generation and the end of thinking … Cluely and its co-founder Chungin “Roy” Lee were intensely, and intentionally, controversial.
Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly “agentic” young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley
Tech's new generation and the end of thinking … Cluely and its co-founder Chungin “Roy” Lee were intensely, and intentionally, controversial.
A look at the efforts to give retail investors access to private markets, where shares of startups like OpenAI trade, and the opportunities and risks they bring
If you like our current form of capitalism, you're entitled to that opinion—but anyone foolish enough to think it can ever be anything but a two-tiered system (including Robinhood)...
Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output
here's why Anthropic and Gemini are pulling ahead Ludwig Makhyan / Search Engine Journal : ChatGPT Vs. Gemini Vs. Claude: What Are The Differences? Amina Ali / Daily Sabah : Reset ...
Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output
I have a simple method for my own AI rankings: product delight. That is, when I use the various services from the players in AI …
Opendoor's new chairman Keith Rabois says “I don't know what most” of its 1,400 employees do and the company doesn't need “more than 200 of them”
Imagine hearing that your employer has a new board chairman and this is what he says in the ir first interview on CNBC. … Forums: r/technology : Opendoor board chair Rabois says co...
Some users are wearing the Apple Watch on their ankles to get around problems, like skin conditions; some believe health metrics are more accurate on the ankle
Apple Ankle Watch [embedded post] Forums: MacRumors Forums : Watch on ankle? — Just saw this headline. — Why Are People Wearing Apple Watches on Their Ankles?
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subscribers, adding 18.9M subscribers, more than double analysts' estimates; NFLX jumps 14%+
- Netflix is raising subscription prices in its biggest market — Report marks the end of regular quarterly customer updates
Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on building the app with Instagram's tech stack, handling Threads' unexpectedly intense launch, and more
The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch?
The National Music Publishers Association: in February 2023, Spotify had 44.4M US subscribers, Apple Music had 32.6M, Amazon Music had 29.3M, YouTube had 8.5M
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide : Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social and @alexwilhelm.bsky.social . Twitter: @c0up See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Rich Stroffolino / @mra...
A deep dive into the race to develop a quantum computer, which could help address climate change and food scarcity, break current encryption protocols, and more
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A look at OpenAI's Minecraft bot, which has learned to complete complex tasks in Minecraft after being trained on 70K hours of video of people playing the game
Online videos are a vast and untapped source of training data—and OpenAI says it has a new way to use it.
Adobe's $20B Figma deal is worth it because Figma's $400M ARR, independent of margin, was continuing to double and creating pricing pressure on Adobe
Hint: The Answer Doesn't Involve a Spreadsheet — I'm not an investor in Figma. I don't know Figma CEO Dylan Field. And I'm not a designer.
PitchBook: the Adobe deal makes Figma the largest VC-backed exit in 20+ years; source: Figma's biggest outside shareholder is Index Ventures with a 12%+ stake
Bloomberg :
PitchBook: Figma deal is the largest exit for a VC-backed company in ~20 years; source: Index Ventures' ~12% stake makes it Figma's biggest outside shareholder
Danny Rimer first invested in Figma in 2012, shortly after the company was established and began developing software tools for designers.
A look at advanced large language models, as a Google engineer is placed on paid leave after becoming convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator became sentient
AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.
Memo: Apple delays its three-day-a-week return to the office indefinitely, citing rising COVID-19 cases; the company still expects attendance two days per week
Apple Inc. delayed a plan to require workers to come back to the office three days a week, citing a resurgence in Covid-19 cases …
Leaked images seem to show a Google Pixel Watch testing model left at a US restaurant, with a minimalist design in black, a crown, and a proprietary Google band
If this is the final design of the Google Pixel Watch, then many of the rumors have come true. — What you need to know
Leaked images seem to show a Google Pixel Watch testing model left at a restaurant in the US, with a minimalist design in black and a proprietary Google band
If this is the final design of the Google Pixel Watch, then many of the rumors have come true. — What you need to know