Interviews with Garry Tan, Paul Graham, YC partners, and others about Tan reshaping YC in a “return to roots”, as some founders complain about politicization
Former venture capitalist Garry Tan has slashed programs and turned up the mics in a bid to restore … X: @johnpaczkowski , @madhuyalamarthi , @yuris , and @n_sportelli LinkedIn: Alex Konrad and Alex K...
A profile of Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, which outsources ~240K workers via its subsidiary Remotasks to label the data used to train AI systems
hundreds of thousands of them — powering AI. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @ycombinator : “There's two things I deeply believe. One, AI is a huge force for good, and it needs to b...
An analysis of Elon Musk's reported attempts to raise money for Twitter via an equity sale at an absurd price, why his successor will be unpopular, and more
Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Tweets: @matt_levine , @shoepergirl , @gthartley , @iihavetoes , @johnpaczkowski , @ben_mathes , and @rachaelmyrow Tweets: Matt Levine / @matt_levine : This newsletter must ...
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions
just so transparent https://twitter.com/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : Friendship ended with KATIE https://twitter.com/... Marisa Kabas / @marisakabas : audio of elon musk joining @katienotopoulos twitter ...
An internal doc at Facebook, co-written by Chris Cox, aims to equip employees with rebuttals to the perception that the company's products fuel polarization
In a Thursday presentation, Facebook executives told employees the company isn't to blame for social division in the country. Tweets: @rmac18 , @jtemple , @rmac18 , @buzzfeednews , @rmac18 , @johnpacz...
Some Facebook employees say internal forum admins froze comments on at least three threads in which employees discussed removing Trump from the site
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @dellcam , @themadstone , @zacharylipton , @parismarx , @johnpaczkowski , @b_fung , @iancoldwater , @kathbarbadoro , @notdetails , and @techwontsaveus Tweets: Dell ...
Apple announces M1, the first Apple silicon SoC for Macs, with 5nm process, 16B transistors, 8-core CPU, up to 8-core GPU, and a 16-core neural engine
unless Apple creates speed differences. Mustapha Hamoui / @beirutspring : Disappointed that Apple didn't visually differentiate silicon macs from their intel predecessors... It could have been a small...
Sources: Facebook didn't apply hate speech rules to at least four flagged individuals and groups in India, showing a pattern of favoritism to Modi's party
Company executive in vital market opposed move to ban controversial politician; some employees allege favoritism to ruling party Tweets: @jeffhorwitz , @seemay , @rmac18 , @tmclaughlin3 , @jeffhorwitz...
As Facebook says politicians can lie in ads, so far in October it has banned 160+ ads from Trump, Biden, Warren, Sanders, Steyer for profanity and fake buttons
not bc Trump falsely said Biden offered $1B to Ukrainian officials to end an investigation of a company w/ connections to his son - Broken landing pages - Ads that look like they have “buttons” you ca...
Sources and chat logs show Facebook's internal tensions are reaching a boiling point, as one ex-employee says staff are “hoping for a Sundar or Dara moment”
“It's the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They're getting tired, getting cranky … Tweets: @nachristakis , @buzzfeednews , @markdistef , @craigsilverman , @mark...