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Internal document: Amazon has held talks with several partners for handling specific tasks on the AI-powered Alexa, including Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart (www.businessinsider.com)
4 days ago Amazon Uber AI

US gov't data: 669 of 1,089 approved H-1B hires for TikTok and ByteDance from Oct. 2022 to Sept. 2023 were from China, up 50% YoY, despite US lawmaker scrutiny (www.businessinsider.com)
10 days ago China H1B

The NYT says the Tech Guild is ending its strike after a weeklong stoppage; during the strike, dozens of tech workers crossed the picket line (www.businessinsider.com)
11 days ago

Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8% (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-10-15 Tesla

Elon Musk deleted an X post that said “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala” after an apparent Trump assassination attempt, calling the post a joke (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-9-16 Trump Elon Musk

Email: the World Federation of Advertisers discontinues activities of its nonprofit, GARM, following X's antitrust lawsuit, but intends to contest X's claims (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-8-9

Tech leaders, including Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, and Mark Zuckerberg condemn the shooting at a Trump rally on July 13 (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-7-15 Trump Elon Musk Zuckerberg Tim Cook Jeff Bezos

Source: Google and Samsung's XR headset, codenamed Moohan and initially planned for Q1 2024, is now set for March 2025, with a developer version in October 2024 (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-7-14 Google Samsung

Current and former Tesla staff: self-driving data annotation staff were told to prioritize analyzing car data of VIP drivers, like Elon Musk and YouTube stars (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-7-10 Tesla YouTube Elon Musk

Sources: Amazon is working on an AI chatbot, codenamed Metis, designed to compete directly with ChatGPT; source: it's tentatively slated for a September launch (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-6-25 Amazon AI chatbot

Sources: Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in Azure; one source estimated the Azure for Operators team cuts involved as many as 1,500 staffers (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-6-4 Microsoft

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-5-25 Google AI

Screenshots of Google's AI Overview giving bizarre answers go viral, including telling users to add “1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to make cheese stick on a pizza (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-5-24 Google AI

Inside Oracle's Cerner acquisition, including issues with Cerner's EHR system, which Oracle says it wasn't aware of, and its rollout at the US Veterans Affairs (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-5-21 Oracle

Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft's operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft's relationship with Sam Altman, and more (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-5-3 Microsoft Bill Gates

Esther Crawford joins Meta's Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter's director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-5-1 Twitter

Apptopia: Threads is now consistently surpassing X in US DAUs, up to ~28M in April, after it first began eclipsing X in Dec. 2023, but X still has more US MAUs (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-4-24

Document: Microsoft added 500+ megawatts of data center capacity since July 2023 and topped five gigawatts of total capacity in the H1 of its latest fiscal year (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-4-18 Microsoft

Impressions of Waymo's robotaxis, now running in SF and Phoenix, after several rides: amazing tech that quickly feels “normal”, but they aren't perfect (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-4-16

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-4-6 YouTube Instagram

Meta is testing giving cash bonuses to creators who post engaging content on Threads, as part of an invite-only program (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-4-4

Filings from 2023 list Jacob Vespers as OpenAI Startup Fund's manager; OpenAI says “Vespers does not exist” and the docs are “fabricated”, without elaborating (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-3-30 Startup

AI execs who urgently need more energy to power their tech revolution are turning to fossil fuels (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-3-26 Energy AI

Elon Musk tells staff they must give new customers a demo of Full Self Driving mode before giving them their car (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-3-26 Elon Musk

China's attempts to revive its economy could cause a 'sugar high' that pushes US inflation higher, new research says (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-3-26 China Inflation

The new boss of Boeing's commercial airplanes division is a third-generation employee (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-3-26 Boeing

It's a date: Trump's first felony trial will be April 15 (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-3-26 Trump

After landing a job at NBC, former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel finally admits Biden won the 2020 election 'fair and square' (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-3-26

Elon Musk is taking ketamine and techies are microdosing mushrooms. So it's OK to do drugs at work now? (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-3-25 Elon Musk

Russia is preparing 100,000 soldiers for a possible summer offensive, Ukraine says (www.businessinsider.com)
2024-3-25 Russia Ukraine

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