Journals

Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Some current and former Google employees publicly blast the company, criticizing its lack of “visionary” leaders, cold approach to delivering layoff news, more  —  Angry Googlers are finished being nice.  —  Current and former… Read More »Some current and former Google employees publicly blast the company, criticizing its lack of “visionary” leaders, cold approach to delivering layoff news, more (Ariel Zilber/New York Post)

Ben Axelrod / Awful Announcing: Months after pulling its Surviving Barstool series from YouTube over censorship claims, Barstool Sports announces a deal with Rumble; Rumble stock jumps 30%+  —  Screen grab: Dave Portnoy on X  —  Nearly two months after… Read More »Months after pulling its Surviving Barstool series from YouTube over censorship claims, Barstool Sports announces a deal with Rumble; Rumble stock jumps 30%+ (Ben Axelrod/Awful Announcing)

Lauren Weber / Wall Street Journal: Researchers: only 18 companies of 391 analyzed seem to have followed a NYC law that went into effect six months ago and requires disclosure of hiring algorithms  —  The law requires employers to disclose… Read More »Researchers: only 18 companies of 391 analyzed seem to have followed a NYC law that went into effect six months ago and requires disclosure of hiring algorithms (Lauren Weber/Wall Street Journal)

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Source: Alphabet’s moonshot X lab is restructuring to make it easier to spin projects out as independent startups; sources: it’s laying off dozens of employees  —  – X is the brainchild of Google founders Brin and… Read More »Source: Alphabet’s moonshot X lab is restructuring to make it easier to spin projects out as independent startups; sources: it’s laying off dozens of employees (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Sources: FTX sold 22M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, worth nearly $1B, explaining the outflows after the SEC’s ETF approval; BTC has tumbled since the approval  —  BTC’s price has fallen since bitcoin ETFs were approved.  In… Read More »Sources: FTX sold 22M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, worth nearly $1B, explaining the outflows after the SEC’s ETF approval; BTC has tumbled since the approval (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Financial Times: How Japan plans to use avatars, robots, and AI in construction, trucking, farming, and retail to alleviate an estimated labor shortage of 11M people by 2040  —  Farmers, retailers and builders rethink business models as world’s fastest-ageing society… Read More »How Japan plans to use avatars, robots, and AI in construction, trucking, farming, and retail to alleviate an estimated labor shortage of 11M people by 2040 (Financial Times)

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Palantir’s revenue growth from US government contracts has slowed in recent quarters, as some agencies look at cheaper rivals and seek fewer data access limits  —  Individual investors had bolstered company’s share price in… Read More »Palantir’s revenue growth from US government contracts has slowed in recent quarters, as some agencies look at cheaper rivals and seek fewer data access limits (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Meta plans to let EU users unlink their Instagram and Facebook accounts, as well as other Meta services, ahead of the EU’s DMA taking effect in March 2024  —  EU users will be able to… Read More »Meta plans to let EU users unlink their Instagram and Facebook accounts, as well as other Meta services, ahead of the EU’s DMA taking effect in March 2024 (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Bloomberg: Source: in a low-key tour, Jensen Huang visited Nvidia’s offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing earlier in January, as the US curbs Nvidia’s China exports  —  – Company’s chips have become central to US-China tech race  — Huang kept… Read More »Source: in a low-key tour, Jensen Huang visited Nvidia’s offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing earlier in January, as the US curbs Nvidia’s China exports (Bloomberg)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ElevenLabs, which uses AI tools to create and edit synthetic voices, raised an $80M Series B co-led by a16z, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation  —  There’s a lot of money in voice… Read More »ElevenLabs, which uses AI tools to create and edit synthetic voices, raised an $80M Series B co-led by a16z, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)