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@gregbensinger

@gregbensinger
142 posts
2026-01-29
A bit lost in the shuffle of the staggering number of job cuts at Amazon is that the company killed its biometric palm-scanning payment system known as One. Not sure it will be missed [image]
2026-01-29 View on X
About Amazon

Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025

2026-01-28
A bit lost in the shuffle of the staggering number of job cuts at Amazon is that the company killed its biometric palm-scanning payment system known as One. Not sure it will be missed [image]
2026-01-28 View on X
About Amazon

Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025

I want to let you know that we're making additional organizational changes across Amazon that will impact some of our teammates.

2024-12-11
It wasn't that long ago that Cruise vehicles were ubiquitous in SF, outnumbering Waymo.  What a downfall  —  www.reuters.com/business/aut...
2024-12-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Sources: several Cruise employees say they were “surprised” and “blindsided” by GM's decision to end Cruise's robotaxi program and that they expect job cuts

The news came by Slack message.  —  Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June …

It wasn't that long ago that Cruise vehicles were ubiquitous in SF, outnumbering Waymo.  What a downfall  —  www.reuters.com/business/aut...
2024-12-11 View on X
Bloomberg

GM says Cruise will exit the robotaxi business, combining Cruise's and GM's technical teams to focus on autonomous and driver safety tech for upcoming GM cars

Cruise and GM's technical teams will be combined into a single effort focused on developing autonomous technology to offer …

2024-11-19
In other news, I am banning the iPhone https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-11-19 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban

- Company increases investment proposal tenfold, sources say  — Indonesia banned sales of iPhone 16 over local content rules

2024-10-30
My colleagues mined “rumor, leaked materials, half-truths” and “the widest net that can be cast for ‘sources’” to produce an incredible tick tock of why Intel is spiraling under CEO Pat Gelsinger — read: https://www.reuters.com/...
2024-10-30 View on X
Reuters

Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount

Forget having the wrong fab and SKUs and now having to try to claw back so much market share: where's their vaunted organizational IQ?  —  Intel's market cap is down 66% but even t...

2024-08-29
Well this should be interesting. The controversial SB 1047 regulating AI in California has passed the Assembly and heads to Newsom's desk — will he sign it? https://www.reuters.com/...
2024-08-29 View on X
Reuters

California's State Assembly passes the AI safety bill SB 1047, which now goes back to the Senate for a process vote before requiring Governor Newsom's signature

California lawmakers passed a hotly contested artificial-intelligence safety bill on Wednesday, after which it will need …

2024-07-13
What is it about tech companies and fruit names? OpenAI's Q* is now Strawberry, report @annatonger @katielpaul, joining ranks of Apple, BlackBerry, Raspberry Pi etc https://www.reuters.com/...
2024-07-13 View on X
Reuters

An internal document and source detail OpenAI's Strawberry, formerly known as Q*, which aims to improve its AI models' reasoning capabilities dramatically

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” …

2024-03-24
One should not name their company something that will be ironic later when bad things happen
2024-03-24 View on X
Forbes

Stability AI says Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO and from the board “to pursue decentralized AI”; COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte named interim CEOs

Mostaque resigns as CEO r/ArtistHate : StabilityAI CEO Emad Mostaque quitting as the company burns 8 mil a month - totally not a bubble.  So long scumbag.

2024-03-23
One should not name their company something that will be ironic later when bad things happen
2024-03-23 View on X
Forbes

Stability AI says Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO and from the board “to pursue decentralized AI”; COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte named interim CEOs

Mostaque has told a number of people close to him that he plans to step down as chief executive …

2023-12-14
🚨 NEW: Cruise today announced nine dismissals, including the COO, chief legal officer and SVP of government affairs Reuters story with @davidshepardson https://www.reuters.com/... https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-12-14 View on X
Reuters

Cruise dismisses nine key executives, including COO Gil West, as the company continues to investigate an October 2 incident of its vehicle dragging a pedestrian

2023-12-13
Playbook for future potential anticompetitive practices: don't write it down
2023-12-13 View on X
New York Times

Google's Epic loss, where a jury found Google guilty on all 11 antitrust claims, may portend its legal fate in two, more significant US antitrust cases in 2024

A trio of antitrust cases on the docket threaten to reshape Google's business and sap its profits.

Playbook for future potential anticompetitive practices: don't write it down
2023-12-13 View on X
CNBC

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses beating Google, but not Apple, thanks to a jury trial, Google erasing chats, and because “Apple didn't write anything down”

2023-12-12
In closing arguments, Epic Games' attorney says about Google Play that “Google knew these profits could not last unless it took action to prevent competition”
2023-12-12 View on X
The Verge

The jury in Epic v. Google finds that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution and in-app billing services markets; Google plans to appeal

Three years after Fortnite maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win.

Google says it plans to appeal jury finding of anticompetitive behavior in Epic Games case “We plan to challenge the verdict.” — Wilson White, VP, Government Affairs & Public Policy
2023-12-12 View on X
The Verge

The jury in Epic v. Google finds that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution and in-app billing services markets; Google plans to appeal

Three years after Fortnite maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win.

2023-12-06
“We went from an all-time high to an all-time low and from being an industry leader to temporary pausing all of our operations” @techmeme https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-12-06 View on X
Reuters

At an all-hands meeting, Cruise President Mo Elshenawy said the company has hit an “all-time low” and its tech needs to be “significantly better” than humans

Greg Bensinger / Reuters : X: @gregbensinger and @gregbensinger X: @gregbensinger : 🚨NEW from @reuters: Cruise's new head acknowledges “all time low” amid safety review, regulator...

🚨NEW from @reuters: Cruise's new head acknowledges “all time low” amid safety review, regulatory hurdles at all-hands meeting today https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-12-06 View on X
Reuters

At an all-hands meeting, Cruise President Mo Elshenawy said the company has hit an “all-time low” and its tech needs to be “significantly better” than humans

Greg Bensinger / Reuters : X: @gregbensinger and @gregbensinger X: @gregbensinger : 🚨NEW from @reuters: Cruise's new head acknowledges “all time low” amid safety review, regulator...

2023-11-30
In the grand tradition, MailChimp is killing its free TinyLetter service — but is pleased to offer me some paid options to choose from [image]
2023-11-30 View on X
The Verge

Intuit Mailchimp plans to shut down TinyLetter on February 29, 2024, to focus on its core Mailchimp marketing product; Mailchimp acquired TinyLetter in 2011

but is pleased to offer me some paid options to choose from [image] @mattbc : We really need to bust up these gigantic corporations that hoover up innovation only to kill it Not co...

2023-11-21
Cruise staff unimpressed by all-hands meeting just concluded. No details of path forward after two execs resigned in past 24 hours, including CEO Kyle Vogt. “They shared nothing of substance,” said one staffer.
2023-11-21 View on X
Reuters

Cruise co-founder and Chief Product Officer Daniel Kan resigns, a day after CEO Kyle Vogt quit

2023-11-15
Pichai says his internal chats have been set to automatically erase every 24 hours. Epic Games appears trying to establish that Google document retention designed to obfuscate
2023-11-15 View on X
New York Times

Epic v. Google: Sundar Pichai confirms Google paid Apple 36% of the search revenue generated on iPhones, saying the total payment “was well over $10B” in 2022

Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive, testified on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks to defend his company against monopoly claims.