2023-12-11
A Silicon Valley CEO group chat with Mark Zuckerberg, Dropbox's Drew Houston & others blew up when Sam Altman was fired. Everyone wanted to know: What did he do? This OpenAI story w/ @CadeMetz @MikeIsaac @KYWeise provides some answers to that question https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
New York Times
Sources detail what happened at OpenAI before and after Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other
2023-12-10
A Silicon Valley CEO group chat with Mark Zuckerberg, Dropbox's Drew Houston & others blew up when Sam Altman was fired. Everyone wanted to know: What did he do? This OpenAI story w/ @CadeMetz @MikeIsaac @KYWeise provides some answers to that question https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
New York Times
Sources detail what happened at OpenAI in the build-up to Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other
the OpenAI chief scientist who helped fire Sam Altman then backtracked—should jump ship for xAI or Tesla Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI's Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Te...
2023-11-10
What comes after the iPhone? Silicon Valley has been asking that for years. Humane thinks it has the answer: A new device that trades screens for AI and lasers. The journey starts with a Bhuddist monk named Brother Spirit. w/ @eringriffith https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
Wired
Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024
Are they trying to succeed? … @sdw@mastodon.social : I don't have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do. It's worth celebrating that there's...
What comes after the iPhone? Silicon Valley has been asking that for years. Humane thinks it has the answer: A new device that trades screens for AI and lasers. The journey starts with a Bhuddist monk named Brother Spirit. w/ @eringriffith https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
New York Times
A look at Humane's $699 clip-on Ai Pin, the culmination of five years of work, $240M in funding, and 25 patents; Humane expects to sell ~100K in the first year
2023-04-01
“Why is he working on something that won't make him richer? One answer is that lots of people do that once they have enough money, which Sam probably does. The other is that he likes power.” so many gold coins in this Sam Altman profile from @CadeMetz https://www.nytimes.com/...
Wall Street Journal
A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he's too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution
The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia
2023-03-31
Problem: Classical music isn't about composers but covers (ie: conductor/artists) Solution: Apple is categorizing classical to simplify sorting through those options @bzcohen goes tech reviewer w/ this look at Apple Music Classical https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
How Apple's standalone classical music app fixes the genre's biggest problem of search and discovery with better metadata created by Dutch company Primephonic
Forget the metaverse. The future is metadata. It's how the world's most valuable company built a better way of listening to Mozart and Beethoven.
2023-03-27
Apple employees usually march toward the launch of new devices with the single-mindedness of a moon mission. But ahead of the release of its AR/VR headset, it's facing something different internally: skepticism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Eight current and former Apple employees share their concerns about the upcoming MR headset's $3,000 price, its utility, and the unproven AR/VR market
Apple employees usually march toward the launch of new devices with the single-mindedness of a moon mission. But ahead of the release of its AR/VR headset, it's facing something different internally: skepticism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: Apple last week demoed its mixed reality headset, likely dubbed Reality Pro or Reality One, for its top ~100 executives, ahead of their annual offsite
Apple's push into mixed reality will take years to pay off, with the company hoping the device follows the same trajectory as its smartwatch.
2023-03-11
“This is the worst email I've ever had to write to you,” a venture firm said in a memo to backers. @eringriffith on the panic sweeping startup land https://www.nytimes.com/...
TechCrunch
How startup founders are reacting to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, as some worry about frozen funds, operating expenses, and paying employees full salaries
Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter …
“This is the worst email I've ever had to write to you,” a venture firm said in a memo to backers. @eringriffith on the panic sweeping startup land https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bloomberg
VC firm Greenoaks warned its founders of potential problems at Silicon Valley Bank in a November 2022 email; a source says 12+ portfolio startups withdrew ~$1B
2023-02-04
tech's latest innovation: austerity https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Alphabet, Amazon, and other tech firms begin 2023 by championing austerity after facing the worst year on Wall Street in 2022 since the 2008 financial crisis
After years of expansion and billions in profits, Big Tech is pulling back from its famously lavish spending as a long boom finally ends.
2023-02-03
End of an era. With Jony Ive's exit in 2019, Apple's elite design team lost its powerful voice inside an incredibly hierarchical company. Replacing one of the world's elite designers — and his decades of political capital — was never going to be easy. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: Apple decided not to replace departing VP of Industrial Design Evans Hankey; its group of ~20 industrial designers will report to COO Jeff Williams
2023-01-18
“'There's a big apparent gap between Apple's stated human rights policies regarding worker organizing, and its practices,' said Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, who helped initiate the discussion with Apple.” via @noamscheiber https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Apple plans to hire a third-party firm to audit its US labor practices, focusing on human rights, after an investor coalition pushed for the assessment
Noam Scheiber / New York Times : Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @noamscheiber Tweets: Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead : Seems like Apple should hire a firm to audit its China la...
2022-11-30
“Apple's iPhone revenue in 4Q22 may be significantly lower than the market consensus by 20-30% or more,” says @mingchikuo. https://medium.com/...
CNN
Chinese state media: a five-day COVID-19 lockdown in Zhengzhou, home to Foxconn's iPhone plant, has been lifted; an analyst says disruptions cost Apple $1B/week
Hong Kong CNN Business — The central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, home to the world's largest iPhone factory …
“Apple's iPhone revenue in 4Q22 may be significantly lower than the market consensus by 20-30% or more,” says @mingchikuo. https://medium.com/...
9to5Mac
Kuo estimates iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments in Q4 to be 70M-75M, vs. the 80M-85M consensus, and thinks demand may “disappear” due to a recession
2022-11-08
The new luxe lifestyle: Being rich enough to be on pace to post more than 750 times this month, or more than 25 times a day. @RMac18 https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is on pace to tweet over 750 times in November, or more than 25 times a day, up from around 13 per day in April
The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions. — Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles …
Apple was a master of international relations, but its superpowers are failing. Chalk it up to the kryptonite of China. How Beijing's zero-covid is shutting factories & Washington protectionists are dictating iPhone vendors w/ @Changxche & @daiwaka https://www.nytimes.com/...
Financial Times
Analysis: Apple's corporate diplomacy in Beijing helped it evade crackdowns and kept its profits above China's tech giants but exposes it to supply chain shocks
The most profitable tech company operating in China is not a homegrown internet giant such as Alibaba or Tencent, but California-based Apple.
2022-10-26
Have you tried to buy an audiobook on Spotify? Here's the story behind why the process initially took nine steps. https://www.nytimes.com/...
The Verge
Meta says Apple updated its App Store rules to require IAPs for social media “boosts” to grow its business “while undercutting others in the digital economy”
Just when I thought the relationship between Apple and Meta couldn't get more hostile, here we are.
2022-10-22
Apple's elite design team has seen a raft of people leave in the past three years. Evans Hankey, who was credited with providing stability after Jony Ive departed, is joining the exodus, @markgurman reports. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Apple VP of Industrial Design Evans Hankey is leaving, after replacing Jony Ive in 2019; sources say Airbnb VP of Design Gary Butcher is returning to Apple
Apple Inc.'s head of hardware design, Evans Hankey, is leaving the iPhone maker three years after taking the role …
2022-10-07
Anthony Levandowski has gone from driverless car evangelist to apostate: “You'd be hard-pressed to find another industry that's invested so many dollars in R&D and that has delivered so little.” @chafkin on the road to nowhere https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg