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Just how much human engineering work is AI capable of delivering? Grindr put a number to it.In a letter to shareholders, Grindr CEO George Arison touted the company’s advances with AI. He gave a “conservative estimate” that engineering output increased by 2.5x between July 2025 and April 2026, with “minimal…
AI’s future needs safety, not a catchy 2000s tech slogan, says the co-CEO of Waymo.”In Silicon Valley, there’s a common mantra to ‘move fast and break things,'” Dmitri Dolgov said at a Y Combinator talk released on Monday. “However, when you’re dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is…
If you feel like your messages are getting lost in the void, you may be onto something.Executives are often bombarded with many sales pitches and introductions every day — and that makes it difficult to stand out with a cold outreach. Becca Millstein, cofounder and CEO of the trendy tinned…
The world’s newest private jet is breaking speed records, but the manufacturer’s CEO and chief engineer say going supersonic isn’t worth the time.Bombardier’s Global 8000 is the fastest civil aircraft since Concorde and costs at least $78 million to buy. It entered service in December and made its airshow debut…
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu never expected that people would pay as much as they do for food delivery.The delivery service became one of the biggest companies in tech by delivering food, groceries, and other purchases to customers’ homes for a premium over in-store ordering. And people continue to spend on…
OpenAI has laid down the latest marker in the AI pricing war.On Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touted the company’s “major price cuts,” which came in the form of cheaper usage of GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra, two of the company’s latest AI models.”We want to offer the best price/intelligence tradeoff…
Tolan, an AI companion that looks like a cartoon alien, is popular with a surprising demographic: mothers.”The little aliens have been a hit with, like, moms 35 to 45-ish years old,” Tolan founder Quinten Farmer said on a recent episode of the “Access” podcast.”A lot of the folks we serve…
Vibe coding is just one small part of the engineering puzzle, says DoorDash’s CEO.”Only certain parts of a software engineer’s day are writing code, and it’s great that we have models today to write the code for us,” Tony Xu said on an episode of the “Uncapped” podcast released Tuesday.…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he doesn’t believe people would want an AI to replace his job.”I think for my job, for example, I think the world wants to know about the person that’s going to be responsible for the decisions of a company, and who they’re going to hold…
AI is changing how we work, but it hasn’t changed timeless career truths — like the fact that putting in extra effort will get you ahead.That’s according to PwC’s US CEO, Paul Griggs. The senior partner, who started as an intern at the Big Four consulting firm about 30 years…
