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At a sold-out conference in San Francisco for people who build robots, the robots were surprisingly hard to find.This week, 1,500 robotics investors, founders, and engineers packed a cavernous former Army warehouse at Fort Mason, overlooking San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. They came from across the country…
Han Wang insists his intentions were pure.The 25-year-old cofounder of Mintlify is a prolific X poster, sending off his snippets of management philosophy to the platform’s techies. One of his essays fanned the flames of Silicon Valley’s hardcore workplace debate. He called it: “Remember to not smile.”Wang said that the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nick Sanchez, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I would say 99% of my clients cite burnout as one of their biggest problems.As a licensed marriage and family…
Tattoos, company logos, and deleted apologies — oh my.A Y Combinator-backed startup founder is in hot water after saying his company would offer job interviews to anyone who got a tattoo of its logo at a party in San Francisco last weekend.Jordan Zietz, the cofounder of the small AI automation…
On a Thursday afternoon, about 70 people gathered around a nearly six-foot-tall humanoid robot outside an unassuming office building.Employees, executives, and board members of Agility Robotics, along with local officials, had come to christen the humanoid startup’s new engineering hub: a 60,000-square-foot facility where nearly 200 existing and new employees…
A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI is making waves in Silicon Valley and intensifying the global AI race.Kimi K3, unveiled on Thursday, is an open-weight model that Moonshot AI says rivals some of the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic — at a lower cost.The company…
I wish I could have gotten in early on that company.With AI company valuations acting like rocketships, it’s easy to play the “what if” game.The reality is the process isn’t as simple as writing a check and watching your money multiply many times over. (Even if it might seem that…
Humanoid robots have become the mascot of Silicon Valley’s physical AI boom.They dance in viral videos, bang out tunes on the piano, and are headed to Wall Street as Agility Robotics plans to go public. They promise a new workforce that never sleeps, never ages, and can work in spaces…
