A profile of Sam Altman, who says “we basically have built AGI, or very close to it” before dialing back his claim to “a spiritual statement, not a literal one”
As CEO of OpenAI, the 40-year-old billionaire unleashed ChatGPT, mainstreaming artificial intelligence and creating a $500 billion behemoth.
A profile of Sam Altman, who says “we basically have built AGI, or very close to it” before dialing back his claim to “a spiritual statement, not a literal one”
As CEO of OpenAI, the 40-year-old billionaire unleashed ChatGPT, mainstreaming artificial intelligence and creating a $500 billion behemoth.
A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake
“Mercor, a recruiting startup that helps Silicon Valley's biggest AI labs … Bluesky: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The founders of Mercor are the world's youngest self made billi...
AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI software, designed with input from OpenAI, helped secure the multi-billion dollar deal with OpenAI
www.forbes.com/sites/richar... Richard Nieva / @richardnieva : I chatted with AMD's senior vice president of AI about the company's massive deal with OpenAI, and how AMD's software...
A profile of Mercor, a Scale AI rival valued at $2B in February, which hires domain experts to train models; it had a $100M run rate in March and $6M H1 profit
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. X: @richardjnieva . LinkedIn: Sundeep Peechu and Peter Fenton . Bluesky: @dannygro...
How Google's Jigsaw and pollster Scott Rasmussen plan to use AI to survey Americans on political views to find common ground ahead of the US' 250th anniversary
A collaboration between the tech giant and a polling nonprofit will gather five to 10 people each from every congressional district …
ServiceTitan's shares closed up 42.25% at $101 in its Nasdaq debut, giving the cloud software provider an ~$8.9B market cap after it raised ~$625M in its IPO
All topics — Top of the Morning — David Bonderman … Financial Times : Live news: ServiceTitan shares pop 42% in debut Bluesky: Chirag Mehta / @chirag : A good signal that the m...
Q&A with Google DeepMind Director John Jumper on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, merging predictive AI and LLMs, advancing AlphaFold, rival labs, and more
Richard Nieva / Forbes : X: @richardjnieva X: Richard Nieva / @richardjnieva : I chatted with Google DeepMind director John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry earlier th...
A look at Nvidia's AI startup investments through Nventures and its corporate development team, deals that come with intangibles, like access to research teams
Richard Nieva / Forbes : X: @alexvoica , @alexrkonrad , @richardjnieva , and @hkanji X: Alexandru Voica / @alexvoica : Working with Nvidia's world-class research team and having N...
YouTube says YouTube Premium and Music have a combined 100M subscribers; CEO Neal Mohan says subscriptions have become a “meaningful part” of YouTube's business
An interview with Yann LeCun and Joelle Pineau ahead of the 10th anniversary of Meta's Fundamental AI Research lab on ChatGPT, AI in the metaverse, and more
In an exclusive interview leading up to the 10th anniversary of Meta's AI lab, LeCun reflects on the artificial intelligence boom …
A profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who orchestrated one of the great tech turnarounds after her 2014 takeover, as the company attempts to take Nvidia's AI chip crown
Q&A with Sam Altman on AI systems replacing search engines, Microsoft's OpenAI investments, how artificial general intelligence may “break capitalism”, and more
In a rare interview, OpenAI's CEO talks about AI model ChatGPT, artificial general intelligence and Google Search.
Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in lower traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in low traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut...
Some musicians with songs about “poop” say Amazon Music has become their biggest source of revenue, likely due to kids yelling the word at Alexa-enabled devices
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News :
Report: TikTok's in-app browser injects JavaScript that can track users' keystrokes and taps into websites; TikTok confirms the code but says it's for debugging
When TikTok users enter a website through a link on the app, TikTok inserts code that can monitor much of their activity …
Investigation reveals Worldcoin, which collects iris scans in exchange for free crypto, is wrestling with issues, from angry field operators to privacy concerns
As Kudzanayi strolled through the mall with friends, a small crowd caught his attention. At its center, three men held …
Roskomnadzor says it is blocking Facebook in Russia, citing 26 cases of “discrimination against Russian media and information resources” since October 2020
Russia is being cut off from the rest of the online world … France 24 : Russia blocks Facebook over ‘discrimination’ of state media Brittany Bernstein / National Review : Kremlin B...