Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
…side quests” and focus on key revenue drivers like enterprise and coding ahead of its planned IPO. OpenAI confirmed to The Verge that Zoph will be departing. He posted a goodbye message…
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Molo asked Altman if he’d ever fire himself as CEO of the OpenAI for-profit.
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American Airlines is getting Starlink Wi-Fi
American Airlines is planning to install SpaceX’s Starlink Wi-Fi in hundreds of its airplanes, the airline announced today. American says the deployment will start in the first quarter of 2027…
OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle
…It’s all part of OpenAI’s recent strategic shift to focus on key revenue drivers like coding and enterprise and stop pouring resources into “side quests” ahead of its potential IPO…
Transportation
…As Bloomberg reports, Lime finally filed for an IPO on Friday, five years after it originally announced plans to go public. The Uber-backed micromobility company notes in its SEC filing that…
Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent
Allbirds had a hit a decade ago with its Wool Runner shoes, but after a $4 billion IPO in 2021, the business never turned a profit, and sales dropped nearly 50 percent…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…Oracle is planning to build them with an initial completion date in 2027, though according to Bloomberg, that has already slipped to 2028. It’s a more aggressive bet than any other…
First vacuums — then the world
…Bloomberg reports it raised around $560 million in a Series C funding round in 2021 and planned to IPO as early as 2024 (Dreame refuted this at the time). As of 2024…
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
…OpenAI and Anthropic shifted their pricing plans for enterprise. OpenAI introduced in-platform advertisements. Anthropic, of course, restricted third-party tools. In some ways, this is a tale as old as…
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth
…We’re going to be on other planets. We’re going to be curing all forms of cancer.” Truly, I’m not embellishing. The cancer one is actually interesting, that Sam…