Leaked email: Block lays off 931 employees, or ~8% of staff, and moves 193 managers to individual contributor roles, after cutting ~1,000 roles in January 2024
Fintech Block laid off 931 people, roughly 8% of the company's staff, on Tuesday, according to a leaked message from the company seen by TechCrunch.
HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M, wind down Humane's Ai Pin business, and add Humane's team, including its founders, as an AI-focused division
- Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices
HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M, wind down Humane's Ai Pin business, and add Humane's team, including its founders, as an AI-focused division
- Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices
Sources: the US Office of Personnel Management's highest ranks are now controlled by former employees of Elon Musk's companies, like xAI and the Boring Company
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM's top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir.
Sam Altman says DeepSeek's R1 is an “impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price” and OpenAI “will pull up some releases”
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman welcomed the debut of DeepSeek's R1 model in a post on X late on Monday.
DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead
- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge
Tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 17%+, TSM down 14%+, AMD down 6%+, ASML down 6%+, and MSFT down 3%+
Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks tumbled on Monday as advances by Chinese artificial intelligence start …
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, and plans to grow its AI teams “significantly”
Market: WE LOVE AI, DO AI THING — META: Sure thing, ploughing $40bn into capex this year — Market: wait not like that — First time we've seen a negative market reaction to th...
While Trump downplayed Elon Musk's Stargate criticism, assuring reporters “they're putting up the money”, key White House sources say they're furious with Musk
“It's clear he has abused the proximity to the president,” said one ally of the president.
TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a “definitive statement” to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement
TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won't punish Apple …
TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a “definitive statement” to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement
TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won't punish Apple …
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, says free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
The Supreme Court upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday …
A US official says the Biden administration won't force TikTok to go dark in the country on January 19 and will leave it up to Trump to implement the law
The ban goes into effect on Sunday unless the Supreme Court intervenes. — TikTok logo on a smartphone.
Sources: Tim Cook will personally donate $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural committee in the spirit of unity; Apple is not expected to donate
The company is not expected to give. — Cook, with a consistent presence in Washington, has made it clear over the years that he believes …
Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B”, siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue
President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers …
A look at emails between Elon Musk and Sam Altman from OpenAI's early days, discussing its Microsoft partnership, fundraising, staff compensation, AGI, and more
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Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more
- Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures — Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers
Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 15M+ users in total
With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
Sam Altman's Worldcoin rebrands as World, unveils a new Orb powered by Nvidia's Jetson chipset, plans to integrate its ID verification into other software, more
and Will Come Right to Your Door Kate Irwin / PCMag : Sam Altman's Worldcoin Launches ‘Deep Face,’ New Eye-Scanning Orb World on YouTube : Keynote: a new world — Join Worldcoin c...
Meta rolls out “activity status” to Threads that shows a green dot next to a user's profile picture to show the user is online, if they have the feature enabled
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Chris Messina / @chris : What's up AIM buddies? — RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: @gateklons : And the GDPR legal basis for this disclosure is?...