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Richard Nieva

@richardjnieva
41 posts
2026-02-04
NEW: We profiled Sam Altman for the cover of Forbes Magazine. For the story, we talked to Bob Iger, Masa Son, Satya Nadella, Brian Chesky, Paul Graham and more. Graham's take was resonant: “He's good at getting people to do what he wants.” w/ @annatonger https://www.forbes.com/... [image]
2026-02-04 View on X
Forbes

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.

2026-02-03
NEW: We profiled Sam Altman for the cover of Forbes Magazine. For the story, we talked to Bob Iger, Masa Son, Satya Nadella, Brian Chesky, Paul Graham and more. Graham's take was resonant: “He's good at getting people to do what he wants.” w/ @annatonger https://www.forbes.com/... [image]
2026-02-03 View on X
Forbes

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.

2025-11-02
New: With Mercor's new fundraise and $10 billion valuation, its founders become the world's youngest self-made billionaires at age 22, younger than Mark Zuckerberg was when he hit that status at age 23 two decades ago. https://www.forbes.com/...
2025-11-02 View on X
Forbes

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...

2025-10-12
I chatted with AMD's senior vice president of AI about the company's massive deal with OpenAI, and how AMD's software efforts played a part in scoring the agreement. https://www.forbes.com/...
2025-10-12 View on X
Forbes

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...

2025-09-07
I profiled Mercor, which is gunning to make a move in AI data training, especially after Meta's deal with Scale AI. “It just doesn't happen too often in startups where your biggest competitor gets torpedoed overnight,” Mercor's cofounder says. https://www.forbes.com/...
2025-09-07 View on X
Forbes

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...

2025-08-15
Google is working with longtime pollster Scott Rasmussen and his Napolitan Institute on a project to use AI to survey Americans from every congressional district. It could be “revolutionary” for political polling, Rasmussen says. https://www.forbes.com/...
2025-08-15 View on X
Forbes

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 …

2024-12-13
On ServiceTitan's IPO day, CEO Ara Mahdessian scoffed at talk that the company's hand was forced to IPO because of terms from a previous funding round. “We don't make a decision this important based on financing terms,” he told Forbes. With @alexrkonrad https://www.forbes.com/...
2024-12-13 View on X
CNBC

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...

2024-11-01
I chatted with Google DeepMind director John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry earlier this month for his work on Alphafold. He's looking forward to an era when AI can solve problems humans never could on their own. https://www.forbes.com/...
2024-11-01 View on X
Forbes

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...

2024-02-19
New: I wrote about Nventures, Nvidia's VC arm. Portfolio companies described the intangibles that come with an investment, like better access to research and engineering resources, or emailing with CEO Jensen Huang https://www.forbes.com/...
2024-02-19 View on X
Forbes

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...

2024-02-02
New: YouTube Premium and Music, the video site's paid services, just hit 100 million subscribers. I chatted with CEO Neal Mohan about subscriptions now being a “meaningful part” of YouTube's business. https://www.forbes.com/...
2024-02-02 View on X
Forbes

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

2023-12-01
NEW: I chatted with Yann LeCun and Joelle Pineau ahead of the 10th anniversary of Meta's AI research lab. They talked about open source, ChatGPT and generative AI in the metaverse (LLMs powering NPCs). https://www.forbes.com/...
2023-12-01 View on X
Forbes

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 …

2023-06-01
For the magazine (my first cover story!) we profiled Lisa Su, CEO of semiconductor company AMD, who has led one of the greatest comebacks in Silicon Valley history. Now she's taking on Nvidia, the top dog in AI chips. With @_IainMartin https://www.forbes.com/...
2023-06-01 View on X
Forbes

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

2023-02-04
Interesting response from Sam Altman on how an AI system could make web search obsolete. From a rare interview with @alexrkonrad @kenrickcai https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-04 View on X
Forbes

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.

2023-01-22
Statement on Google layoffs from Parul Koul, executive chair of the Alphabet Workers Union. “With billions in profits and executive compensation untouched, our jobs should not be on the chopping block.” https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-22 View on X
New York Times

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.

2023-01-21
Statement on Google layoffs from Parul Koul, executive chair of the Alphabet Workers Union. “With billions in profits and executive compensation untouched, our jobs should not be on the chopping block.” https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-21 View on X
New York Times

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.

Statement on Google layoffs from Parul Koul, executive chair of the Alphabet Workers Union. “With billions in profits and executive compensation untouched, our jobs should not be on the chopping block.” https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-21 View on X
Bloomberg

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...

2022-09-02
“Amazon did not respond to requests for comment about whether it knows how often children yell ‘poop’ at Alexa.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-02 View on X
BuzzFeed News

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 :

2022-08-19
NEW: TikTok's in-app browser injects code that could let the company monitor a user's keystrokes and taps on outside websites, according to research by @KrauseFx https://www.forbes.com/...
2022-08-19 View on X
Forbes

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 …

2022-04-06
New from me and @Amannama: We wrote about Worldcoin, Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning crypto startup. The company's distributors, which sign people up using a mysterious device called an Orb, have faced arrests, harassment and late payments. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
2022-04-06 View on X
BuzzFeed News

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 …

2022-03-05
love that the press release has a share to Facebook button https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-05 View on X
The Verge

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...