Category Archives: Tech News

Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity (Tim O'Reilly/Asimov's Addendum)

Tim O’Reilly / Asimov’s Addendum: Google’s AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion [...]

09
Aug
A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks (New York Times)

New York Times: A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries, [...]

08
Aug
Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm [...]

07
Aug
Sequoia recently closed $10B in new funding (Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy [...]

06
Aug
How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform’s trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Featured Podcasts Training Data: Chai Discovery’s Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem Sequoia [...]

05
Aug
Apple asks a US judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former staff and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using, or disclosing confidential info (Reuters)

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO [...]

04
Aug
Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market (Mitsuru Obe/Nikkei Asia)

Mitsuru Obe / Nikkei Asia: Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as [...]

03
Aug
A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show With John Gruber: ‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’, With Louie Mantia [...]

02
Aug
A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025 (Elizabeth Grenier/Deutsche Welle)

Elizabeth Grenier / Deutsche Welle: A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and [...]

31
Jul
Meta reports $279B in future lease agreements in Q2 related to AI data centers that are not reflected on its balance sheet, up 53% from the prior period (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts The Upstarts Podcast: Basis’s Matt Harpe: Why AI Won’t Replace Accountants — It’ll [...]

30
Jul