Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs. — Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz...
Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation
Big Tech's growing reliance on licensing deals to scoop up top talent from AI startups risks leaving many rank-and-file workers in limbo.
Sources: Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence raised $2B led by Greenoaks at a $32B valuation; SSI last raised $1B at a $5B valuation in September 2024
Start-up raises $2bn, underscoring investors' keen appetite for bankrolling AI groups despite US economic tumult
The touch-sensitive Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 models can launch an AI-powered Visual Intelligence feature and be used to control the camera app
The iPhone 16's Best New Feature Is An Absurdly Over-Engineered Button Tim Brookes / How-To Geek : Should You Upgrade to the iPhone 16? — iPhone 15 Users: Consider Upgrading for A...
Apple unveils iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max with larger 6.3" and 6.9" screens, four titanium finishes, Camera Control, A18 Pro, 48MP ultrawide, 5x telephoto cameras
Apple today announced the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max—its latest flagship smartphones—featuring larger displays …
The New York Times confirms its internal source code and data leaked on 4chan after being stolen using an exposed GitHub token in January 2024
Wordle apparently included Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : New York Times source code compromised via exposed GitHub token Threads: Jacky Liang / @jjackyliang : exposed tok...
The New York Times confirms its internal source code and data leaked on 4chan after being stolen using an exposed GitHub token in January 2024
Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories …
Sources: Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in Azure; one source estimated the Azure for Operators team cuts involved as many as 1,500 staffers
- Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from the Azure business, sources say. — The layoffs impact Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering teams.
A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal Google Search API documentation, including many claims that seem to contradict Google's public statements
On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google's Search division.
OpenAI releases a majority of past employees from nondisparagement agreements tied to their exit contracts, and says it won't seek to cancel their vested equity
- AI startup is changing policies for outgoing employees — OpenAI apologized for restrictions in exit contracts
How Pinecone and other startups use vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, to help businesses link their private data with LLMs
Vector databases were an obscure technology until Pinecone and other startups turned it into a billion-dollar market amid the AI boom
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs that have at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board
The aim is to handle more AI processing locally rather than in the cloud. — We've been hearing rumblings for months …
A look at Meta's AI strategy, which is a bet that open sourcing the tech will drive down competitors' prices and spread Meta's version of AI more broadly
Wall Street Journal : Threads: @jjackyliang . Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social . X: @hoofnagle , @canadakaz , @ylecun , and @ylecun Threads: Jacky Liang / @jjackyliang : no tech co...
Apple unveils $999+ 11" and $1,299+ 13" iPad Pros, with M4, an OLED Ultra Retina XDR screen, up to 1,600 nits; the 13" is Apple's thinnest product yet, at 5.1mm
At its “Let Loose” virtual event this morning, Apple introduced its long-awaited iPad Pro updates.
A profile of DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who was just knighted, as some wonder if he can navigate Google's bureaucracy and turn AI research into great products
What About the Return? Paul Sawers / TechCrunch : Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’ Threads: Jacky / @jjackyliang : ht...
Sensor Tower: in February 2024, X had 27M US DAUs of its mobile app, down 18% YoY, and the US user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022
X usage has declined as downloads of Threads have surged in recent weeks. — The number of people using X daily is falling … Threads: @lorakolodny , @georgescriban , @clarajeffery...
Inflection AI names Sean White as CEO and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure, after co-founders Karén Simonyan and Mustafa Suleyman depart for Microsoft AI
Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup
Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI — Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head …
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU
- Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.
LinkedIn confirms it is working on adding puzzle-based games; a researcher says it is testing ranking companies in the games based on the scores of employees
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform, has made a name for itself primarily as a platform for people looking to network …