Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI's iPhone moment, the DGX Cloud service, the US' export controls, Nvidia's position in the stack in an LLM world, and more
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Tweets: @bradneuberg , @trengriffin , @wenyee_lee , and @stratechery Tweets: Brad Neuberg / @bradneuberg : Excellent interview between two smart folks who I like to follo...
Meta, Twitter, and Snapchat's subscription fees and features are aimed at professional creators filling social feeds because regular users post too infrequently
Monthly fees for Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are not for ordinary users. They're for the professionals who've taken over the feeds. Tweets: @trengriffin and @rajit_h See also Mediagazer Tweets: T...
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with virality, fixing problems, and more
Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon. — When OpenAI launched ChatGPT … Tweets: @tiagodf , @trengriffin , @antonioregalado , @techreview , @ndiakopoulos , @...
A profile of Duolingo, which has almost 15M DAUs, up 51% YoY, and 3.7M paying subscribers, as it expects its 2022 revenue to surpass $365M, up 45% from 2021
Bill Gifford / Bloomberg : Tweets: @trengriffin , @business , and @billgifford Tweets: Tren Griffin / @trengriffin : Is Doulingo fluent in unit economics? What's the CLV of a Duolingo subscriber? htt...
After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicle startups, little progress has been made as companies take shortcuts and losses continue to mount
The first car woke Jennifer King at 2 a.m. with a loud, high‑pitched hum. “It sounded like a hovercraft,” she says, and that wasn't the weird part. Tweets: @trippmickle , @trengriffin , @joelwebersho...
A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $160M, as valuations in the scooter and bike rental sector collapse
Almost exactly five years ago, the scooters came. That's when Bird, the first unicorn in this once sizzling startup sector, launched its inaugural scooter-sharing service. Tweets: @parismarx , @maxwe...
Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros., and others are cutting costs and scrapping TV shows at record rates; 559 scripted shows were released in 2021, up by 200+ on 2013
The sudden decline in Netflix's share price and the growing fear of a recession have forced Hollywood into a new period of fiscal austerity. Tweets: @ampressman , @trengriffin , @lucas_shaw , @carnage...
HR experts, industry execs, and government officials in Taiwan say the current chip talent shortage on the island is the most serious they have ever seen
Nikkei Asia : Tweets: @nikkeiasia , @trengriffin , @trevorcroker , and @martijnrasser Tweets: @nikkeiasia : The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a hiring frenzy, as it races to add capacity ...
How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage
The world is hungry for semiconductors, and not all of them need to be made with cutting-edge technology. The race is on to find older machines that can still crank out chips. Tweets: @benbajarin , @...
TSMC chairman Mark Liu on US-China tensions, the push for semiconductor localization in the US, which he says will not improve supply chain resilience, and more
On the northwest coast of Taiwan, nestled between mudflats teeming with fiddler crabs and sweet-scented persimmon orchards … Tweets: @realnickhendo , @johnhering , @trengriffin , @dylan522p , @magicsi...