A profile of Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, reportedly leaving after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and backs world models instead
Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he's convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.
A profile of Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, reportedly leaving after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and backs world models instead
Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he's convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.
Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14%
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg :
Daniel Ek says Spotify's ad business has “been moving too slowly”; Spotify ad chief Lee Brown left on July 28 to join DoorDash as its chief revenue officer
Catherine Perloff / The Information :
OpenAI and Oracle unveil plans to develop 4.5GW of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership, hitting 5GW in total and running 2M AI chips
OpenAI and Oracle Corp. announced they will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership …
X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business
X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …
After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”
In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.
ServiceTitan's shares closed up 42.25% at $101 in its Nasdaq debut, giving the cloud software provider an ~$8.9B market cap after it raised ~$625M in its IPO
All topics — Top of the Morning — David Bonderman … Financial Times : Live news: ServiceTitan shares pop 42% in debut Bluesky: Chirag Mehta / @chirag : A good signal that the m...
A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose owner was arrested by the US in June for allegedly running a “pill mill”, as it continues to operate from China
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal : X: @wsj , @laurenbalik , @stephpstrong , @rolfewinkler , @jchengwsj , @jchengwsj , @jchengwsj , @heathernauert , @dseetharaman , @rolfewinkle...
A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose owner was arrested by the US in June for allegedly running a “pill mill”, as it continues to operate from China
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal : X: @dseetharaman , @jchengwsj , @laurenbalik , @heathernauert , @jchengwsj , @jchengwsj , @rolfewinkler , @rolfewinkler , @stephpstrong , and...
A decade-old drama between David Sacks and Parker Conrad blew up into a fight on X over VC behavior, drawing in Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names
Julie Bort / TechCrunch :
A decade-old drama between David Sacks and Parker Conrad has blown up into a fight on X over VC behavior, drawing in Paul Graham and other Silicon Valley names
A decade-old drama involving VC David Sacks and Rippling founder Parker Conrad over their previous company Zenefits has blown …
Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting Snowflake customers have been extorted with stolen data and face ransom demands from $300K to $5M
Bloomberg :
A website for cybercriminals lists 500+ allegedly stolen Snowflake customer credentials, including for environments belonging to Santander and Ticketmaster
The credentials relate to employees at Ticketmaster and Santander, and others One set of exposed credentials appear to belong to a former Snowflake employee. … X: @h4ckmanac : 🚨 #B...
A website for cybercriminals lists 500+ allegedly stolen Snowflake customer credentials, including for environments belonging to Santander and Ticketmaster
Cloud data analysis company Snowflake is at the center of a recent spate of alleged data thefts, as its corporate customers scramble …