Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”
techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c... [embedded post] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The AI acquisition moves fast. First, OpenAI ditched its Windsurf deal after clashing with Microsof...
Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware
Meta's former head of augmented reality glasses announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware, according to a post on LinkedIn.
An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube
Ms. Wojcicki, who helped build Google, was one of the most prominent women in technology. — Susan Wojcicki, whose garage …
Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and a key figure in Google's creation, dies at age 56, after two years of living with cancer
Her husband, Dennis Troper, made the announcement earlier this evening: … Susan Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 as its 16th employee and first marketing manager.
A profile of Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, whose OpenAI-or-bust strategy rankled some staff who found their AI projects pushed aside and their resources curtailed
A profile of Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, whose OpenAI-or-bust strategy rankled some staff who found their AI projects pushed aside and their resources curtailed
Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott spearheaded the tech titan's unlikely partnership with OpenAI — In the tech industry's artificial-intelligence race,
New York City Public Schools lifts its ban on ChatGPT and other generative AI models, and will now support educators and students to learn about and explore AI
After a cautious start, our approach to AI technology is evolving. — As Chancellor of the nation's largest school system …
Employment in tech occupations grew 12% YoY to a record 6.39M in November 2022, as workers eye banking, retail, health care, and manufacturing amid tech layoffs
across the economy, beyond the Silicon Valley belt-tightening. Not immune to a weakening economy, but remarkably resilient. w/ @trippmickle https://www.nytimes.com/... Scott Brinke...
A look at some implications for generative AI: “answer engines” replacing search engines, AI mastering cognitive tasks by surveilling how experts work, and more
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Tweets: @krishnanrohit , @buccocapital , @carn...
An interview with NIST mathematician Dustin Moody on the agency's recently selected “quantum-resistant” encryption algorithms
I got this question from a friend this week: Jenna Inouye / eSecurityPlanet : New Quantum-safe Cryptography Standards Arrive None Too Soon Tweets: Will Cathcart / @wcathcart : Grea...
Interview with NIST's Dustin Moody on the agency's recently selected encryption algorithms and why they're designed to withstand future quantum hacking threats
The NIST's “quantum-resistant” encryption standards, picked via contest, were designed to keep everybody one step ahead of hacking by quantum computers.
Cruise raises $1.35B more from SoftBank Vision Fund and launches a waitlist for a driverless robotaxi service in San Francisco that will run from 11pm to 5am
Cruise is opening up its driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco as the GM subsidiary creeps toward commercialization …
A joint advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and EPA reveals three more ransomware attacks on water treatment plants this year in Nevada, Maine, and California
Ransomware gangs have silently hit three US water and wastewater treatment facilities this year, in 2021, the US government … Source: CISA .
Interview with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about Prop 22, capitalism, Travis Kalanick, getting nearly killed while delivering for Uber Eats on a bike in SF, more
everything from Prop 22 to the nature of capitalism to World of Warcraft to Travis Kalanick and Travis Bickle — from his waterfront property on Whidbey Island. https://www.nytimes....
Supreme Court rules 6-2 in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Java APIs, overturning Oracle's win
- The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google against Oracle in a long-running copyright dispute over the software used in Android. — The court's decision was 6-2.
The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years
AR makes a spectacle Nathan Ord / HotHardware.com News : Microsoft Inks $22 Billion Deal To Supply Modified HoloLens AR Headsets To US Army Troops Kris Graft / Gamasutra : Controve...
The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years
- Microsoft will deliver to the U.S. Army more than 120,000 devices based on its HoloLens augmented reality headset.
Computer scientists at the University at Buffalo have developed an AI tool that can detect a deepfake photo by analyzing the light reflections in the eyes
THE METHOD HAS PROVEN ACCURATE ON PORTRAIT-STYLE DEEPFAKES — Deepfakes are being used for a range of nefarious purposes …
Alphabet's DeepMind says it has solved the key “protein folding problem”, cutting the job down from months to hours, which could speed up drug discovery
Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved “the protein folding problem,” a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years.
A tribute to Tony Hsieh, a notable figure on the startup scene since 1996, and whose life recalls a friendlier and less polarized Internet era
Tony Hsieh, an Internet entrepreneur and former CEO of Zappos, an Amazon company, died from injuries incurred during a house fire when visiting family in Connecticut on November 27...