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Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup
Kevin Weil, the former chief product officer of OpenAI, has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for a new AI science startup, in the latest example of AI pushing into science. Weil is aiming to raise $150 million in the round, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. The…
Claude’s watermarking poses the question: Are you willing to proudly own that you write with AI?
This week, Anthropic announced that it will be adding in a watermark to its outputs, making it highly detectable to tell if something was “processed by Claude.” This should strike fear into the hearts of any students who have become addicted to the sweet, sweet nectar of AI-written term papers and…
DoorDash is set to become a Nevada-incorporated company.
DoorDash is set to become a Nevada-incorporated company. Shareholders controlling 54.2% of the delivery service’s voting power agreed to end its incorporation in Delaware and head west, according to a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The move was made with the written…
Bumble is losing its Bumble-ness
Bumble’s buzz is sounding familiar. When Whitney Wolfe Herd left Tinder to found Bumble, she positioned the new rival as Tinder’s antithesis. “I always felt that for me as a woman, I always had to wait around,” she told The New York Times in 2017. So, women would have to message first, and they’d…
Miami is more expensive than New York. It’s a bad sign for the city’s economy.
Elhanan Harel and his wife were living in New York City, where they paid $1,770 a month for a tiny one-bedroom apartment. The rent might have been manageable had Harel’s lice-treatment business been doing well, but the pandemic’s disruptions had made it difficult to make ends meet. In 2020, the…
The 20 best college towns where life revolves around their universities, ranked
School: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Population: 122,233 Home to the University of Michigan and its over 50,000 students, Ann Arbor is the best and most distinct college town in the US. College culture is deeply woven into the city’s landscape, where campus buildings blend into a walkable…
OpenAI loses another top executive, as Brad Lightcap leaves ‘to start something new’
Veteran OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced on Tuesday that he’s leaving the company, the latest departure at the AI juggernaut as it orients itself toward an initial public offering. Lightcap served as the company’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer during his eight-year…
Disappointing photos show what visiting Niagara Falls in Canada is really like
When I reminisce about my boat tour of Niagara Falls, I think of the hot-pink ponchos. I spotted a rainbow from behind a sea of heads in these disposable, mist-shielding cloaks, stretching their arms in an attempt to get an unobstructed shot of the natural wonder. The picture or video may not…
I spent about $23 an hour for Frontier Airlines’ premium class. I’d upgrade again, but only on one kind of flight.
I had two days in Cleveland and one thing I’d wanted to do for years: Visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The best flight option was with the budget carrier Frontier Airlines, and it was departing Denver at 6:45 a.m. To make it on time, I’d have to wake at 3:30 a.m. and
Jeff Dean’s hour-by-hour breakdown of his Google exit: an ’emotional’ video chat, Yoga at 7, and ‘unemployed’ at 11:59
Twas the night before Jeff Dean left Google, and he was up at 2 a.m. responding to messages. Dean left the search giant last week to build his own AI startup, Discovery Loop. He was Google’s 30th employee, spending decades climbing the ladder to his final role of chief scientist. So, he had a lot