Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models
Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology
Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
A senior US defense official says the Pentagon formally told Anthropic that the startup and its products “are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately”
The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it's deemed the artificial intelligence company and its products a risk to the US supply chain …
A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention of Silicon Valley's investors and founders
In recent months, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, co-hosts of “TBPN,” a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention … X: @willmanidis , @dwr , @manasjsaloi , @thefrandaw...
A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention of Silicon Valley's investors and founders
In recent months, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, co-hosts of “TBPN,” a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention … X: @willmanidis , @dwr , @manasjsaloi , @thefrandaw...
A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention of Silicon Valley's investors and founders
In recent months, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, co-hosts of “TBPN,” a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention … X: @ashleymayer , @turnernovak , @frankcdale , @ada...
Source: US Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham plan to introduce a bipartisan bill with wide support that would make Section 230 expire on January 1, 2027
In June 1995, two young congressmen reached across the aisle to introduce legislation that would become the defining legal protection …
San Francisco's next mayor, Dan Lurie, a Levi's heir with no political experience, wasn't tech leaders' top choice but is a moderate who aims to work with them
votes were simply not trending in the right direction enough for her [image] Joe Rivano Barros / @jrivanob : Daniel Lurie just gave his acceptance speech at St. Mary's square in Ch...
Trump says Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt and told Trump he wouldn't endorse a Democrat because he “respected” Trump's reaction that day
Former President Donald Trump has expressed a newfound fondness for Mark Zuckerberg after years of railing against him.
Sources: Apple is working on a foldable, clamshell-design iPhone that could debut as soon as 2026, and reached out to Asian component suppliers in recent months
Apple is working on a foldable iPhone that could be released as early as 2026 and in recent months reached out to suppliers …
Video game and app developer Voodoo acquires photo-sharing app BeReal, in a deal valuing BeReal at €500M; Voodoo's Aymeric Roffé will become BeReal's CEO
A profile of Curtis Priem, Nvidia's co-founder and first CTO, who holds ~200 patents, sold his Nvidia stock years ago, and has donated $275M to his alma mater
If Curtis Priem, Nvidia's first CTO, had held onto all his stock, he'd be the 16th richest person in America.
Sources: Cameo tells staff it is laying off 80+ workers because of financial pressures, leaving fewer than 50, down nearly 90% from its peak headcount last year
One would have expected that with the Hollywood strikes, business would be booming. … Twitter: Abe Brown / @abebrown716 : @nmasc_ @kyurieff I can hear the “I told you so” from here...
Source: IRL CEO Abraham Shafi has stepped down, following allegations the messaging startup used bots to inflate its user count shared publicly and to investors
Mark Matousek / The Information : Tweets: @martymadrid , @mattschaar , @bryce , @abebrown716 , and @amir Tweets: @martymadrid : This tracks ... I've been following this “company” ...
Source: IRL CEO Abraham Shafi has stepped down, following allegations the messaging startup used bots to inflate the users it reported publicly and to investors
Abraham Shafi has stepped down as CEO of messaging app IRL following allegations that the company used bots to inflate the users … Tweets: @bryce , @amir , @mattschaar , and @abebr...
Internal Twitter document: just ~180,000 US users paid for Blue and other subscriptions as of mid-January, implying ~$28M annual subscription revenue globally
Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January …
Sources: Meta pays BuzzFeed to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train online creators to grow, as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022
Partnership marks latest iteration of yearslong relationship between digital publisher and social-media giant
Sources: in December, Twitter started considering auctioning off usernames to generate revenue; Elon Musk had said he wants to free up 1.5B inactive usernames
The company has discussed selling some user names through online auctions, people with knowledge of the plans said.
Sources: GroupM clients cut Twitter ad spend by 40%-50% since Elon Musk took over; Standard Media Index is seeing fewer January and February ad bookings in 2023
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Source: Cisco CEO said that the company will increase operating expenses by $1B over the next year, amid employee frustration over wages and high staff turnover
Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins told managers earlier this month that the networking hardware pioneer would increase …