Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO
Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky's board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.
Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and others are among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration
An eclectic group including Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Richard Branson, Ralph Nader, Susan Rice and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu signed the letter.
Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 15%+
Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.
Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B
Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul …
An eight-month 2025 study at a US tech company: AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it; employees worked faster, longer, and did a bigger scope of tasks
Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work …
An eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks
Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work …
Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments after border agents killed Alex Pretti; Rabois said Pretti was committing a “felony”
To understand the stance of an unwavering Trump loyalist after United States Custom and Enforcement shocked the nation …
As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out
across NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Salesforce, Adobe, PayPal, YouTube, Slack, Meta—we are now hundreds strong.Hemant Taneja /@htaneja:This is not politics as usual. As inves...
Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after US agents killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice
Tim Cook is captured. There is simply no other explanation for his actions over the past year or so.
As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out
Some tech workers are pressuring the industry's top leaders to speak out against ICE after federal officers killed Alex Pretti …
A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber
Nearly every bit of the high-tech world, from the most cutting-edge AI systems at the biggest companies, to the casual scraps …
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, available to a small group via a waitlist
OpenAI is expanding its capabilities by adding a dedicated health tab to ChatGPT, allowing people to bring in electronic medical records …
Amazon says it will cut ~14,000 jobs from its corporate workforce, after cutting 27,000 across 2022 and 2023; the company had 1.55M employees globally in June
Amazon.com Inc. plans to eliminate roughly 14,000 corporate jobs just months after Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy warned that AI will shrink the company's workforce.
Q&A with NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on social media, tech leaders, Trump, fame, Apple's and Google's “wrong decision” to remove ICEBlock, and more
Mere months ago, New York's mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.”
Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots
it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impu...
X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business
X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …
After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”
In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.
Sam Altman says he believes in “techno-capitalism” and is “politically homeless” as Democrats no longer encourage a “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats — cnbc.com/2025/07/04/o... Sacha Ramtohul / @poticha : Not to anyone's surprise but Altman...
A software developer explains how AI agents help automate tedious coding tasks, and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job losses, mediocre code, and more
Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That's bad strategy. But I get where they're coming from.