The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world . . . will probably read this book and try even harder
Can a book like this actually change anything? Or does the spotlight, as it always seems to, send more students racing to the place?
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Amazon’s new podcast strategy: Monetize everything
Amazon's podcasting business seems to have transformed over the past six months.
What Tim Cook built
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss how Apple has changed since Cook became CEO in 2011, and what challenges incoming CEO John Ternus will be facing.
TechCrunch Mobility: Elon’s admission
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity
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SpeakOn’s dictation device is a good idea marred by platform limitations
This $129 device uses MagSafe to stick on the back of an iPhone to power transcription across apps
Elon Musk's years-long legal battle with OpenAI and Sam Altman will finally head to trial on Monday
Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI goes to trial Monday, and the fate of the company's future may hang in the balance.
Will Elon Musk's New SpaceX and Tesla Joint Venture Disrupt This AI Semiconductor Giant?
Musk says this tech giant isn't expanding fast enough to meet demand.
Business leaders, including Elon Musk and Dana White, react to the shooting at the DC press dinner
Here's what big names in the business world are saying about the shooting at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner in ...
SpaceX Becoming a Publicly Traded Company May Rob Elon Musk of a Cool Source of Easy Cash
In 2015, the Times says SpaceX started buying up Solar City’s debt at a time when he was that struggling company’s chairman.
Elon Musk Says Cybercab Is Rolling Off The Line, But What Do Prediction Markets Say?
Elon Musk is telling investors the Cybercab is finally rolling off the line. Prediction market traders are pricing in a much slower story than the one Tesla is selling. Tesla Inc. has started manufacturing the two-seat driverless sedan, Musk said Friday on X, fulfilling a long-promised production timeline as the company’s global sales slump and the stock sits down 17% year-to-date. The Cybercab was unveiled two years ago without a steering wheel or pedals, a design that will need exemptions from
Can Sam Altman be trusted? Elon Musk wants a jury to answer Big Tech's hottest question.
Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman asks jurors to dig into grievances that stretch back to OpenAI's founding.
Elon Musk warns America is '1,000% going to go bankrupt' and 'fail as a country' — here's what he says can save us
'Nothing else will solve the national debt.' ...
Sequoia is giving away the hardware for an AI project it cannot invest in. That is the point.
Sequoia Capital co-steward Alfred Lin personally purchased 200 Mac Minis, had each one custom-engraved with a design mixing old cartography and machine learning contour plots, and distributed them to attendees at Sequoia’s “AI at the Frontier” event. Each machine contained two easter eggs: Sequoia’s ethos statement about creative spirits and underdogs, and a quote generated […]This story continues at The Next Web
A startup with a bankrupt fintech CEO and a president’s son wants to build America’s robot army
Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in April 2024, has secured $24 million in research contracts with the US Army, Navy, and Air Force to test humanoid robots designed to breach enemy positions. The company’s Phantom MK-1 is a 5-foot-9, 176-pound humanoid with 19 upper-body degrees of freedom, five-fingered hands, a camera-first vision […]This story continues at The Next Web
Brockman’s diary called it a lie. Now a jury will hear it.
Jury selection begins Monday in Oakland federal court for the trial that will determine whether OpenAI’s conversion from a nonprofit to one of the most valuable companies in the world was a breach of charitable trust. Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and donated at least $38 million to it, is suing Sam Altman, […]This story continues at The Next Web
The EU sanctioned Chinese firms for arming Russia. China retaliated by threatening Europe’s ability to arm itself.
China’s Ministry of Commerce issued a formal condemnation on Saturday after the European Union included approximately 27 Chinese and Hong Kong entities in its 20th sanctions package against Russia, the largest round of listings in two years. Beijing said the move “runs counter to the spirit of the consensus reached between Chinese and EU leaders, […]This story continues at The Next Web
China orders its apps to stop sending orders to exhausted drivers. The algorithm is now subject to collective bargaining.
China’s most powerful governing bodies, the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council, issued comprehensive labour rules for gig workers on Sunday, the first time the party’s highest authority has formalised protections for the more than 200 million people who deliver food, drive cars, and livestream products through online platforms. The mandate requires […]This story continues at The Next Web
AI synthetic audiences are already here and poised to upend the consulting industry
There is a war brewing between AI and consulting. Akin to an armies slow march towards the castle, a new technology is coming to dethrone the expert guessers of Mckinsey, Nielsen, Gartner, Publicis and the rest. Any consulting that involves analyzing people (think all of marketing, research, polling, etc.) will have to reckon with the technology of “synthetic audiences”.Synthetic audiences aim to generate digital versions of people that can then be surveyed almost instantly and affordably, but n
Context decay, orchestration drift, and the rise of silent failures in AI systems
The most expensive AI failure I have seen in enterprise deployments did not produce an error. No alert fired. No dashboard turned red. The system was fully operational, it was just consistently, confidently wrong. That is the reliability gap. And it is the problem most enterprise AI programs are not built to catch.We have spent the last two years getting very good at evaluating models: benchmarks, accuracy scores, red-team exercises, retrieval quality tests. But in production, the model is rarel