Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that “vibe coding” advanced projects may create “shaky foundations” and eventually “things start to kind of crumble”
Nothing controversial here. If you have AI write a bunch of code that you don't understand then you'll have a bad time. @pileofgarbage.net : Very amusing watching the CEO of garba...
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
Kevin Tierney / @catholicsmark : Well yes, in order to survive CBS needed to have less bias in its newsroom. Why is this surprising? Steve Rosenbaum / @magnifymedia : https://www.n...
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane.
Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani “an Islamist”
Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization than the boom unleashed by the microprocessor: diffuse global benefits but few new fortunes
The disruption is real. It's also predictable. — ISSUE 04 — Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors … X: @actaccordingly , @shearic , @joincolossus , @sameer_singh17 ,...
Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, and says a “no bad person” rule is impractical
“Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle …
Trump's tax bill expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, startup staff, including increasing maximum tax-free gains from $10M to $15M
Ben Steverman / Bloomberg :
A profile of Christian Garrett, co-founder of the Hill and Valley Forum and partner at 137 Ventures, who has become Silicon Valley's diplomat to Washington, DC
Margaux MacColl / The San Francisco Standard : X: @wolfejosh , @cgarrett_15 , @cgarrett_15 , @hkanji , and @seanhenryatl X: Josh Wolfe / @wolfejosh : He @CGarrett_15 is the man. A...
A look at Huawei's AI CloudMatrix 384 rack-scale system, which is less power-efficient than Nvidia's GB200 NVL72, though this is not a limiting factor in China
Huawei is making waves with its new AI accelerator and rack scale architecture. Meet China's newest and most powerful Chinese domestic solution …
Some Meta insiders fear FAIR is “dying a slow death” as Joelle Pineau exits in May; Yann LeCun says it's “a new beginning” for “Advanced Machine Intelligence”
Memo: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke says using AI is now a “fundamental expectation” and that teams asking for more resources must first show why AI can't do the job
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is changing his company's approach to hiring in the age of artificial intelligence.
A book excerpt details how the OpenAI board ousted Sam Altman with help from Mira Murati, who provided examples of his alleged lies and other toxic behavior
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal :
The UK's PM debuts plans to increase its public sector compute over 20x to spark a “national renewal”, saying the UK doesn't need to walk a US or EU path on AI
Going our own way will unleash national renewal — Artificial intelligence is the defining opportunity of our generation.
Several media and tech executives say UK VC Matt Clifford, who has advised successive Tory and Labour governments, has an outsized influence over AI policy
British venture capitalist has advised successive Tory and Labour governments — Last year, as thousands of customers withdrew … X: @nickswan73 , @hkanji , @james_coe1 , and @kris...
Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage
I noticed in CrowdStrike's post mortem report that they didn't say a thing about management. … Forums: Hacker News : CrowdStrike ex-employees: ‘Quality control was not part of our ...
Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage
THE SCOOP — Software engineers at the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike complained about rushed deadlines, excessive workloads … X: @rachyljones , @hkanji , and @nullvoxpopuli . Lin...
Since the OpenAI board dispute, Microsoft diversified AI investments and partnerships, built its own models, and hired aggressively for its consumer AI efforts
Financial Times : X: @bgurley , @hetanshah , @hkanji , and @rwang07 X: Bill Gurley / @bgurley : This is a very long and interesting article. Must read I would say. It says Microso...
US v. Google: Eddy Cue said there's no price Microsoft could offer to change Safari's default search engine to Bing, stating Microsoft offered “Bing for free”
Finally, a legal ruling on whether TikTok is a real search engine. (It's not.)
How Les Wexner, Victoria's Secret billionaire owner, made early investments in Atlantic Crypto, which then turned into CoreWeave, netting him a $720M stake
Forbes : X: @_iainmartin , @_iainmartin , and @hkanji X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : A 86-year-old retail billionaire (with a complicated legacy) might be one of the big winners ...
A look at Operation Intering, an FBI-led sabotage campaign in the 1980s to secretly ship millions worth of faulty chips to the Soviet Bloc
Zach Dorfman / Politico : X: @vtchakarova , @zachsdorfman , @zachsdorfman , @zachsdorfman , @bharatkumarindi , @hkanji , @amyshirateitel , and @patcaldwell . Forums: Hacker News X...