Sundar Pichai acted as the 'wartime CEO' that Google needed after ChatGPT's launch.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-14
Sundar Pichai Google
Sundar Pichai proved to be the “wartime CEO” that Google needed after ChatGPT's launch, making the company an AI leader, in part by empowering Demis Hassabis
Bloomberg · 2025-11-14 · #29
Sources report Verizon plans to cut about 15,000 jobs in its largest workforce reduction ever as a cost-cutting measure.
rumored 1 article 2025-11-13
Verizon Communications ~15,000 jobs
Sources: Verizon plans to cut ~15,000 jobs, its largest workforce reduction ever, and transition ~200 stores into franchised operations, seeking to cut costs
Wall Street Journal · 2025-11-13 · #22
Sources report Vista plans significant workforce cuts over the coming years by using AI to compile investor presentations, aggregate data, and automate related tasks, trimming those roles.
rumored 1 article 2025-11-12
Vista roles creating investor presentations data aggregation roles
Sources: software-focused PE firm Vista plans significant workforce cuts in the coming years as it uses AI to compile presentations, aggregate data, and more
Financial Times · 2025-11-12 · #11
Synopsys plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce, roughly 2,000 employees, after completing its acquisition of Ansys.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-12
Synopsys
Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or ~2,000 employees, after completing its $35B acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys earlier in 2025
Reuters · 2025-11-12 · #13
CEO Lisa Su characterized AI spending as 'the right gamble' and described customer demand for AI compute infrastructure as 'insatiable'.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-12
Lisa Su AMD AI spending 'the right gamble' AI demand 'insatiable'
AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average more than 35% and AI data center revenue growth will average 80% over the next three to five years
Bloomberg · 2025-11-12 · #44
Sachin Katti will work at OpenAI on designing and building compute infrastructure to support AGI research and scale applications.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Sachin Katti compute infrastructure for AGI
Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts
CRN · 2025-11-11 · #36
Vladimir Novakovski is the founder and CEO of Lighter.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Vladimir Novakovski Lighter
Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation
Fortune · 2025-11-11 · #16
Microsoft formed a new superintelligence team under Mustafa Suleyman.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Microsoft superintelligence team
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build “frontier-grade research capability” and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency
Business Insider · 2025-11-11 · #11
Mustafa Suleyman is the Microsoft AI CEO.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Mustafa Suleyman Microsoft AI CEO
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build “frontier-grade research capability” and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency
Business Insider · 2025-11-11 · #11
Tim Berners-Lee founded the decentralization startup Inrupt.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Tim Berners-Lee Inrupt
Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more
The Verge · 2025-11-11 · #13
Sources report that Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup.
rumored 1 article 2025-11-11
Yann LeCun Meta own startup
Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds
Financial Times · 2025-11-11 · #1
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) led the US-based ACE operation against Streameast.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
MPA ACE
How US-based ACE, led by the MPA, took down illegal sports streamer Streameast, which had 136M global users per month, £4.9M in ad revenue, and ~£150K in crypto
The Athletic · 2025-11-11 · #30
Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti is leaving Intel to join OpenAI.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Sachin Katti OpenAI
Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts
CRN · 2025-11-11 · #36
Sachin Katti departs Intel after four years in roles including networking, edge computing, and AI.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Sachin Katti Intel
Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts
CRN · 2025-11-11 · #36
Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over the company's AI efforts following Sachin Katti's departure.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-11
Intel Lip-Bu Tan
Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts
CRN · 2025-11-11 · #36
Gamma has 52 employees.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-10
Gamma 52 employees
Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K+ paying subscribers
New York Times · 2025-11-10 · #7
Economy-wide layoffs are likely caused by financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-10
Economy AI infrastructure spending overhiring recession fears
Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, are likely responsible for the economy-wide layoffs
Fast Company · 2025-11-10 · #6
The headline argues that AI adoption is unlikely to be the primary cause of the economy-wide layoffs.
denied 1 article 2025-11-10
AI adoption Economy-wide layoffs
Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, are likely responsible for the economy-wide layoffs
Fast Company · 2025-11-10 · #6
Vyacheslav Penchukov is also known as 'Tank'.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-10
Vyacheslav Penchukov Tank
An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after nearly 10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list
BBC · 2025-11-10 · #23
Brendan Foody is described as a 22-year-old CEO in the profile.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-10
Brendan Foody 22-year-old
A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is building a “new category of work”; Mercor hit a $500M ARR in September and pays contractors ~$1.5M/day
The San Francisco Standard · 2025-11-10 · #28
Cursor operates with few scheduled meetings, favoring asynchronous or ad-hoc coordination.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-09
Cursor
Cursor is engaged in aggressive recruiting efforts.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-09
Cursor
Brie Wolfson (zebriez) published a 60-day account/essay about working at Cursor for Colossus.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-09
Brie Wolfson Cursor
Cursor maintains a largely in-person work culture with significant in-office collaboration.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-09
Cursor
The piece describes Cursor as engaging in aggressive recruiting.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-08
Cursor recruiting
An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more
Colossus · 2025-11-08 · #7
A 60-day account describes Cursor as having a largely in-person work culture.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-08
Cursor largely in-person culture
An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more
Colossus · 2025-11-08 · #7
The account reports that Cursor operates with few scheduled meetings.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-08
Cursor few scheduled meetings
An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more
Colossus · 2025-11-08 · #7
Sources report senior Sequoia partners ousted Roelof Botha amid concerns about his leadership style, AI investment strategy, and internal clashes.
rumored 1 article 2025-11-08
senior Sequoia partners Roelof Botha
Sources: Roelof Botha was ousted by senior Sequoia partners amid concerns about his “imperial style” leadership, AI investment strategy, and internal clashes
Financial Times · 2025-11-08 · #22
Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk's $1T pay package, divided into 12 milestone tranches including a target to expand Tesla's market cap to $8.5T over 10 years.
confirmed 1 article 2025-11-07
Tesla shareholders Elon Musk $1 trillion pay package 12 milestone tranches market cap target $8.5 trillion over 10 years
Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk's $1T pay package, divided into 12 tranches of milestones, including expanding Tesla's market cap to $8.5T over 10 years
Wall Street Journal · 2025-11-07 · #1
Noam Shazeer is reportedly the co-lead of Google's Gemini AI project.
rumored 1 article 2025-11-07
Noam Shazeer Google Gemini co-lead
Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments
The Information · 2025-11-07 · #19