Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he’s working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.
The AI efficiency playbook is failing. Discover the human-centered strategy that’s separating thriving companies from those quietly hollowing out.
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OpenAI is in a relatively precarious position. The company is and has been a funding behemoth – just over a week ago, it closed $122 billion in funding at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. It’s potentially planning for an IPO later this year. ChatGPT’s longtime lead in consumer-facing AI led it to name-brand status […]
Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.
AI is reshaping business by replacing large teams with small, AI-powered companies. The Micro-Enterprise Model shows how one person can now build and scale a company.

Unionized staff at ProPublica, one of the country’s leading nonprofit newsrooms, are walking off the job for 24 hours beginning Wednesday and asking the public to honor a digital picket line. The roughly 150 members of the ProPublica Guild are in the midst of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement after unionizing in 2023. The union […]
Tesla has expanded their service area for rides with nobody in the vehicle. This implies they are closer to ready, but other clues suggest otherwise
Anthropic’s invite-only rollout of Project Glasswing shows how frontier AI is becoming a premium enterprise product, shaped by scarcity, safety and market strategy.