Category Archives: Tech News

A look at “The List”, a compilation of the most talented AI engineers and researchers that Mark Zuckerberg has put together in an effort to recruit them to Meta (Wall Street Journal)

Featured Podcasts Techmeme Ride Home: The Death Of The Blue Screen Of Death The day’s [...]

28
Jun
At a “couples retreat” for human-AI pairs, users of services like Replika and Nomi grapple with the virtual reality and emotional limits of their partners (Sam Apple/Wired)

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show With John Gruber: ‘Through the Wall Like Kool-Aid Man’, With [...]

27
Jun
How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting companies scraping fanfic content for AI training and opposing AI-generated fanfic (Decca Muldowney/The Verge)

Decca Muldowney / The Verge: How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting [...]

26
Jun
How AI is reshaping the perfume industry, as fragrance tech startup Osmo promises 48-hour sample turnarounds and incumbents like DSM-Firmenich embrace the tech (Arabelle Sicardi/The Verge)

Arabelle Sicardi / The Verge: How AI is reshaping the perfume industry, as fragrance tech [...]

25
Jun
The UK CMA says it has provisionally found Google meets the legal tests to designate it with "strategic market status" in general search and search advertising (Financial Times)

Financial Times: The UK CMA says it has provisionally found Google meets the legal tests [...]

24
Jun
Sources: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky could get a multibillion-dollar payout if he drives the fintech's valuation to ~$150B, under an Elon Musk-style pay deal (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky could get a multibillion-dollar payout if he drives [...]

23
Jun
An interview with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on how AI is affecting the jobs market, AI agents, dealing with fake AI-generated accounts, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts BG2 Pod: Coatue Pt2. Open AI’s Kevin Weil Dives into All Things ChatGPT [...]

22
Jun
A profile of Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang, whose ties to influential people in the AI industry and the GOP could give Meta leverage over its competitors (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: A profile of Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang, whose ties to [...]

21
Jun
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 6:1 six months ago to 18:1 now (Christine Wang/Axios)

Christine Wang / Axios: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google’s ratio of pages crawled per [...]

20
Jun
A look at the lack of consensus in the tech industry on what AGI is, whether LLMs are the best path to it, and what AGI might look like if or when it arrives (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: A look at the lack of consensus in the tech [...]

19
Jun