ericabrescia · TEXXR

A huge congrats to Thomas on his run at GitHub. The title of his post - “Goodbye GitHub” - looks like it has dual meaning... Reading between the lines, GitHub is being fully merged into CoreAI at Microsoft. It has been going in that direction for the past 3.5 yrs, but this marks the end of an era 😢 Goodbye, GitHub.

2025-08-12 View on X

Axios

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization

once independent programming site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team Todd Bishop / GeekWire : GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Kaustubh Bagal...

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Having grown up in my dad's construction company, I could not be more thrilled to be partnering with Sarah and the truly fantastic team she's built at Trunk Tools to build the AI brain for the $10T construction industry. LFG! Learn more from Sarah, me and @itsmeeraclark :) [video]

2024-08-21 View on X

TechCrunch

New York-based Trunk Tools, which provides automation tools to organize unstructured construction documentation, raised a $20M Series A led by Redpoint

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :

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You could not find a more perfect founder to build Trunk Tools - Sarah has the grit, resilience, ambition, passion + empathy for those actually doing the work in construction. Count my lucky stars to get to work with her, the whole TT team & @itsmeeraclark to build the AI

2024-08-21 View on X

TechCrunch

New York-based Trunk Tools, which provides automation tools to organize unstructured construction documentation, raised a $20M Series A led by Redpoint

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :

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I keep hearing people say AI is “not ready for production”, or that “companies aren't ready for it”. No, it can't do everything we want yet. And no, not all companies are ready. But AI is already good enough for many things. Klarna's CS AI is doing the work of 700 FTEs.

2024-02-28 View on X

Fast Company

Klarna claims its ChatGPT-powered AI chatbot handles two-thirds of all customer service chats and “is doing the equivalent work” of 700 full-time human agents

Klarna is bullish on bots. — One month after taking its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant global, the Swedish buy-now …

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Anyone want to hazard a guess at the value of the productivity lost over this OpenAI debacle? Think about the countless hours of time for major tech execs, news outlets, employees, VCs, lawyers, startup execs, etc that have lost most or all of the past 5 days. What a waste.

2023-11-23 View on X

Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...

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Good. But, wow. To have to go through all of that to get to this point... I feel for the employees and what their last several days must have been like. Hope this new board can better navigate the company through future issues.

2023-11-23 View on X

Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...

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Anyone want to hazard a guess at the value of the productivity lost over this OpenAI debacle? Think about the countless hours of time for major tech execs, news outlets, employees, VCs, lawyers, startup execs, etc that have lost most or all of the past 5 days. What a waste.

2023-11-23 View on X

The Information

Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern

One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …

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Good. But, wow. To have to go through all of that to get to this point... I feel for the employees and what their last several days must have been like. Hope this new board can better navigate the company through future issues.

2023-11-23 View on X

The Information

Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern

One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …

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Good. But, wow. To have to go through all of that to get to this point... I feel for the employees and what their last several days must have been like. Hope this new board can better navigate the company through future issues.

2023-11-22 View on X

Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

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Could not be more thrilled to be working with @jasoncwarner for the 3rd time (!) as he and @eisokant execute on their exciting and incredibly ambitious vision to power the future of all software development. You could not find a more perfect team to build this. Seriously, LFG! https://twitter.com/...

2023-05-25 View on X

Newcomer

Poolside, co-founded by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner to build a “subsystem” for AI services like GitHub Copilot and Replit's Ghostwriter, raised a $26M seed

Eric Newcomer / Newcomer : Tweets: @mfts0 , @solomonstre , and @ericabrescia Tweets: Marc Seitz / @mfts0 : Once a builder, always a builder. Wow, I'm excited to hear the news of t...

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100%. VCs are causing this unnecessarily. Shame on those of you who are fueling the fire whether than helping to quell it. I also believe Greg and team's message. Working to pull together a group to help put a stop to this. If you're interested, ping me. https://twitter.com/...

2023-03-10 View on X

The Information

Some VC firms are encouraging their portfolio companies to pull funds out of Silicon Valley Bank while others are advising startups to keep no more than $250K

Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker on Thursday told top venture capitalists in Silicon Valley to “stay calm” …

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100%. VCs are causing this unnecessarily. Shame on those of you who are fueling the fire whether than helping to quell it. I also believe Greg and team's message. Working to pull together a group to help put a stop to this. If you're interested, ping me. https://twitter.com/...

2023-03-10 View on X

Financial Times

Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities

Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities — Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25bn share sale …

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I don't have any insider info, but would put money on this being true. Another brilliant move by Microsoft if they pull it off. https://www.semafor.com/...

2023-01-10 View on X

Semafor

Sources: Microsoft is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $29B valuation, taking 75% of OpenAI's profits until the investment is recouped and then owning 49%

Microsoft has been in talks to invest $10 billion into the owner of ChatGPT, the wildly popular app that has thrilled casual users …

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GitHub Copilot is truly amazing, and it is now GA! Worth spending some time to check it out. Congrats, @ashtom and team! https://github.blog/...

2022-06-22 View on X

The Verge

GitHub launches Copilot AI, which suggests lines of code to developers, out of preview for $10/month or $100/year and says 1.2M+ tried the preview in 12 months

Free for students and maintainers of popular open-source projects — Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot AI tool today …

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“⁦⁦⁦@Railway⁩ is building an engine to unleash the full potential of compute and make it accessible to any user, anywhere in the world. We see ourselves as a ‘next-generation cloud’ that works with the user instead of against them.” https://techcrunch.com/...

2022-06-02 View on X

TechCrunch

Railway, which provides a dashboard for building, deploying, and monitoring apps and services, raises a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ericabrescia and @andreafunsten Tweets: Erica Brescia / @ericabrescia : “⁦⁦⁦@Railway⁩ is building an engine to unleash the full potential of c...

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This is fantastic to see, and I love that Google is building an Open Source Maintenance Crew to working on bringing greater security to key open source projects. The only way we make truly material progress here is by working together. Go OpenSSF! https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/ ...

2022-05-14 View on X

Cybersecurity Dive

The Linux Foundation and OpenSSF plan to spend $150M+ to boost open source and supply chain security; Amazon, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and others pledged $30M+

David Jones / Cybersecurity Dive :

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Grateful for @natfriedman's stellar leadership over the past 3 years, and excited for this next phase of growth under @ashtom's leadership. Thomas is truly committed to delivering the best developer experience in the world and is exceptional at executing. Onwards and upwards! https://twitter.com/...

2021-11-04 View on X

TechCrunch

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down on November 15; Thomas Dohmke, who became chief product officer in August, will take over as CEO

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service.

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Happy 30th birthday, Linux! What an incredible impact Linux has had on the the world we live in today: https://www.theregister.com/ ...

2021-08-27 View on X

The Register

As Linux turns 30, a Q&A with Greg Kroah-Hartman, who oversees Linux kernel releases, on lessons learned, upcoming challenges, why Linux succeeded, and more

Greg Kroah-Hartman talks to El Reg about world domination, what was, and what may be for the kernel Tweets: @ericabrescia , @sjvn , @infernosec , and @theregister Tweets: Erica Bre...

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Especially excited about this one - better security of the software in our supply chains benefits us all. https://twitter.com/...

2020-10-01 View on X

VentureBeat

GitHub begins rolling out its code-scanning tool, designed to help identify vulnerabilities before public deployment

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :

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