2026-01-27
We were discussing how much disk space we needed and of the engineers said his estimate was “conservative”. I don't want any of that partisan crap so I fired him on the spot.
New York Times
Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment”
Business leaders continue to feel pressure to speak out about the immigration crackdown and the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens.
We were discussing how much disk space we needed and of the engineers said his estimate was “conservative”. I don't want any of that partisan crap so I fired him on the spot.
Spyglass
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.
We were discussing how much disk space we needed and of the engineers said his estimate was “conservative”. I don't want any of that partisan crap so I fired him on the spot.
TechCrunch
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 …
2025-09-20
Sure, there's H-1B abuse, but there's a tradeoff curve here, right? Going all the way to a $100k fee feels like way past the point of curbing most abuse, and well into the territory of losing out on a lot of great talent.
Reuters
The Trump administration says it would require companies to pay an annual $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, a move that could significantly impact the tech industry
- Visas are used principally by tech sector — Over 70% of beneficiaries of H-1B visas enter US from India
2024-10-04
Embeddings have come a long way since I used word2vec in 2013 for Spotify's rec sys. Excited to be a small angel investor in Voyage AI!
TechCrunch
Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M
excited to be a part of this journey! Oh, and feel free to reach out if you're interested in embeddings and retrieval. Would love to chat. Shunyu Yao / @shunyuyao12 : Congrats @ten...