Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source
In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by “every big VC”
Mark Zuckerberg needed ten minutes. He was finishing code. — Peter Steinberger had called him on WhatsApp without scheduling anything.
Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting wi...
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026
$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but says it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT's responses, and that it won't sell user data to advertisers.
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026
$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026
$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
Startups have started to offer free nicotine pouches as a perk, as some employees claim the products help them focus during the workday, despite health hazards
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity — www.wsj.com/tech/tech-st... @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online : lmao just give them crank and chain th...
Eight Sleep adds an outage mode to its smart beds after complaints they were stuck at sweltering temperatures and in inclined positions during the AWS outage
Thousands of Eight Sleep owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed positions while while Amazon's servers were down.
AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after a US-EAST-1 outage, first reported on October 20 at 3:11am ET, that affected major services
Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
Austin-based Hello Patient, whose AI agents help healthcare organizations handle patient communications, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners
With our Series A fundraise, we're expanding the team at our HQ in Austin, TX. — We're hiring: … Alex Cohen : Today, I'm beyond excited to share that Hello Patient has closed a $...
American Exceptionalism Acquisition, a SPAC led by Chamath Palihapitiya and focused on energy, AI, DeFi, and defense, files for a US IPO, seeking to raise $250M
American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. A 25,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares … Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch : Chamath Palihapitiya warns ‘no crying in the casino’ as he launches...
Cluely, which wants to help users “cheat on everything”, including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed
Cluely, a startup that claims to help users “cheat” on job interviews, exams, and sales calls, has raised …
Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions
Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify.
Source: OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for ~$3B; Windsurf was valued at $1.25B in a 2024 funding deal
they are the black hole of Startups People still don't get it Evil institution Deedy / @deedydas : @EMostaque Perhaps the time (say even 6mos) it takes to build and grow a Windsurf...
TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”
The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …
Memecoin MIRA, created to fund research into a brain tumor affecting tech CEO Siqi Chen's daughter, hit an $80M market cap before falling as Chen began selling
- After his young daughter, Mira, was diagnosed with a type of rare brain tumor, tech CEO Siqi Chen turned to X with a heartfelt plea …
In a letter to investors, Bolt says it is finalizing a $450M Series F at a $14B valuation; documents show the deal terms are bewildering and hard to believe
This is a pay-to-play VC deal for the ages. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... @erinkwoo [image] Sheel Mohnot / @pitdesi : Wild: Breslow back to Bolt as CEO, company raising $450M...
A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market
The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS — Get notified of outages that impact you — Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...