This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.
“The tools of American journalism… are very bad at telling you what’s happening, the longer story that each day’s news belongs to. And the gap between ‘what happened’ and ‘what’s happening’ is where this administration operates. They’ve been counting on it.” @parkermolloy.com:
Sorry to see the layoffs in Meta’s Reality Labs today. I know how destabilizing this can be. If any current or former employees want to share anything, I’m listening. My Signal is +1-408-905-9124. I’ve consistently broken news about Meta, and I take great care to protect sources’ identities.
The worst part of RTO is how it forces managers to become hall monitors, nagging people about time spent in the office instead of business outcomes.
Amazon has doubled down on that by giving managers dashboards showing how many hours employees spend in the office. Micromanagement on steroids.
Meta Reality Labs head Andrew Bosworth has urged employees to show up in person to a "most important" all-hands next week. This has fueled a lot of speculation, including whether Boz is leaving (Meta told me he isn't). Meta employees can reach me privately on Signal at +1408-905-9124.
In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
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Inside the invite-only TLTF Summit in Austin, where lawyers gathered to discuss the future of the legal industry.
Software M&A deals could accelerate as AI disruption depresses valuations, according to RBC Capital.
Inside Latham & Watkins mandatory AI training for first-year associates.
Monica Melton hosting a stage at AfroTech 2025 wearing a black dress with blue flowers.
It was an honor to host at #AfroTech2025 and share the stage with brilliant engineers, programmers and leaders.
Thank you to the folks that continue to create a welcoming environment for Black technologists. 🫶🏾
Vantage Data Centers and Voltagrid are the developers of a data center and natural gas plant for the new Stargate site in Shackelford County.
Meta lays off 600 employees in its Superintelligence Labs division.
Priyanka Kulkarni's "exhausting" and "confusing" experiences as an employee on an H-1B visa inspired her to launch her startup, Casium.
Broadcom cuts staff in sales and account management roles. The chip giant has been capitalizing on the AI boom.
Scale AI agreed to settle four California lawsuits alleging illegal underpayment and misclassification. A judge will review the deal in December.
🚨 A legal-y scoop: New filings show Meta is fighting to block AI chatbot documents and whistleblower testimony in a major child-safety case heading to trial in New Mexico. www.businessinsider.com/meta-legal-b...
Data centers are driving up consumers' electricity costs, but experts say energy conservation hacks won't lower bills much. Here's what to do instead.
In an internal message, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang reiterated his support for Trump's H-1B changes and shared personal reflections on immigration.
OpenAI and AMD signed a deal for 6 gigawatts of compute. Now, they'll just need to get the electricity power it.
Firefly Aerospace acquires defense analytics firm SciTec for $855 million for an edge in defense tech and Trump's Golden Dome project
Perplexity is making its AI browser Comet, previously $200 per month as part of Perplexity Max, free for all, with rate limits (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
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1/ Anti-'woke' veterans who wield leaked screenshots are thrusting cancel culture deep into the US military, adding to strains at an unprecedented moment. www.businessinsider.com/inside-anti-...
The question of whether lawyers are really using Harvey has ramifications for its employees and investors — and the dozens of competitors in its wake.
🚨 Scoop with @charlesrollet.bsky.social: Intuitive Surgical, a $150-billion Silicon Valley medtech company with 13,000 employees, has paused job offers to all candidates who need H-1B sponsorship because of the recent Presidential proclamation. www.businessinsider.com/intuitive-si...
Startup founders are worried that changes to the H-1B visa program could make it even harder to compete with bigger companies in the talent wars.
Sen. Josh Hawley's office says Meta hasn't complied with its request to hand over records on how its AI chatbot interacted with children.
🚨 48 hours of chaos. A scramble for flights. Tech workers walking off planes. Immigration lawyers working nonstop. The White House’s $100K H-1B fee threw Silicon Valley into turmoil overnight.
Big new feature from me + my dream team at @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/trump-h-1b-v...
Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee sparked chaos in Silicon Valley, sending shockwaves through the tech industry as companies scrambled to adjust to costly new regulations.
