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Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google.
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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion.
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Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Apple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in the EU to comply with the DMA.
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Introducing System One Models and Jev
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
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The Cloud Computer
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
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Zoom Acquires Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
A refreshed, more powerful Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku, and a new experimental AI capability: computer use.
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Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
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How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.
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Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
Around The World and Back Again20111,017 points482 commentscited by 8Tech Industry & Business details
Somewhere around 1:00 am yesterday, my Airbnb.com horror story was picked up by Hacker News ; to say this story has gone viral in the past ...
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Explaining React's license
Visit the post for more.
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I fought the PayPal and I won
Payment processors hostile to freedom of expression hate me for this one weird trick!!
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WeWTF
I’ve started nine firms and I’m, generously, 3-4-2 (win-lose-tie). In retrospect, and I think about this a lot, the only reliable forward-looking indicator of our firm’s success or failure was … timing. Specifically, the part of the economic cycle at founding. The firms we started in recessions had an easier time…
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BYOT: Bring your own team
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
How Chinas strategic focus on 3D printing and patent incentives since 2020 created a "minefield".
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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society.
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Options vs. Cash
I often talk to startups that claim that their compensation package has a higher expected value than the equivalent package at a place like Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Snapchat. One thing I don’t understand about this claim is, if the claim is true, why shouldn’t the startup go to an investor, sell their options for…
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Mixtral of experts
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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A million-dollar engineering problem
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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The Tech Bust of 2015
Maybe instead of a tech bubble, we’re in a tech bust. No one seems to fervently believe tech valuations are cheap, so it’d be somewhat surprising if we were in a bubble. In many parts of the...
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Riot is now Element
Hi everyone, We are incredibly excited to announce that Riot is now Element! In fact we have simplified all our naming: Element is also the name for New Vector (the company behind Riot) while Modular, our flagship Matrix hosting service, has become Element Matrix Services. For those discovering us for
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Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence: building our very own search index!
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New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
Cross-compilers, such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler in Adobe’s upcoming Flash Professional CS5 release, are prohibited.
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“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”
We work with many teams, inside and outside of Google, that use Dart every day to build business-critical apps. Their feedback is consistent...
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Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?
Deconstructing the real costs of running AI inference at scale. My napkin math suggests the economics might be far more profitable than commonly claimed.