AI startups in the Bay Area raised $27B+ in 2023, more than 50% of global AI funding, up from $14B in 2022 when the region accounted for 29% of all AI funding
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News : X: @richard_florida , @crunchbasenews , @mrp , and @benwerd X: Richard Florida / @richard_florida : The Bay Area is the world's undisputed leader in...
Across the US, towns and cities are feeling the impact of Amazon's belt-tightening, often having welcomed the company with incentives, as pandemic growth fades
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post : Tweets: @richard_florida , @carlquintanilla , and @damianpaletta Tweets: Richard Florida / @richard_florida : Shot: “The big dog's gonna eat...
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google will emerge stronger from this downturn; Refinitiv: from 2008 to 2010, these companies acquired 100+ firms
Flush with cash, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are positioned to emerge from a downturn stronger and more powerful. As usual.
Google tells staff in the Bay Area and other US locations to return to physical offices three days a week starting on April 4, in a shift to a hybrid work model
- Google told employees on Wednesday that it expects them to begin returning to physical offices April 4.
A look at a newly revamped Whole Foods store in Washington, which uses palm-scanning Amazon One tech and Amazon's computer vision-enabled Just Walk Out tech
Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US
Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country. Tweets: @paulg , @anit...
Sidewalk Labs plans to shut down, fold its products into Google, and spin out Canopy Buildings; CEO Dan Doctoroff says he is stepping down for health reasons
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Google is experimenting with post-pandemic designs in 10% of its global work spaces, including inflatable balloon walls, hybrid meeting rooms, open-air tents
although I have to say, this looks like one of the most uncomfortable meeting spaces on earth https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @joshsternberg : If you're a $1.5 ...
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing
Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful. — 11 hr ago
Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders
even inside newsrooms. This is depraved. https://twitter.com/... Robin Hanson / @robinhanson : “The ideas they exchanged were often controversial — connected to gender, race and in...
Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work
money that will go plenty further somewhere else.” Great piece by @NellieBowles https://www.nytimes.com/... JP Mangalindan / @jpmanga : Ironically, that's my old SF apartment build...
Sources: Jeff Bezos, inspired by Elon Musk's Gigafactory in Nevada, pushed for Amazon to aggressively pursue large incentives for its HQ2 project in NY and VA
When Elon Musk secured $1.3 billion from Nevada in 2014 to open a gigantic battery plant, Jeff Bezos noticed.
Sources: Amazon to launch “Shipping with Amazon”, a delivery service for businesses, starting with third-party merchants and rolling out in LA within weeks
The company is preparing to begin the offering in Los Angeles with its ‘third-party merchants’ and then roll it out more broadly
Economists worry that the tax incentive competition solicited by Amazon for HQ2 will divert taxpayer funds from education, infrastructure, and other priorities
Economists worry that the tax incentive competition solicited by Amazon for HQ2 will divert taxpayer funds from education, infrastructure, and other priorities
When New Jersey announced a $7 billion package of tax incentives to try to lure Amazon's second headquarters to Newark … Tweets: @richard_florida , @bencasselman , @whitenjon , @by...