AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, open source, and closing services

It was quite a surprise when Adam Selipsky stepped down as the CEO of Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit. What was maybe just as much of a surprise was that Matt Garman succeeded him. Garman joined Amazon as an intern in 2005 and became a full-time employee in 2006, working on…Read More

CPO Paul Gubbay says Squarespace is training its AI tools with curation and taste

Will generative AI tools help people build better websites, or will they just fill the web with spam? With the recent launch of Design Intelligence, a new website builder full of generative AI tools, Squarespace is betting on the former. I spoke with chief product…Read More

23andMe’s future prompts more worries, as genomic data analysis improves

Customers of genetic data outfit 23andMe may be at greater risk than they realize, suggests a New York Times story that argues the company’s woes could be short-lived compared to the longer-term threats facing those roughly 15 million people if 23andMe can’t continue as a…Read More

23andMe’s future prompts more worries, as genomic data analysis improves

Customers of genetic data outfit 23andMe may be at greater risk than they realize, suggests a New York Times story that argues the company’s woes could be short-lived compared to the longer-term threats facing those roughly 15 million people if 23andMe can’t continue as a…Read More

23andMe’s future prompts more worries, as genomic data analysis improves

Customers of genetic data outfit 23andMe may be at greater risk than they realize, suggests a New York Times story that argues the company’s woes could be short-lived compared to the longer-term threats potentially facing those roughly 15 million people if 23andMe can…Read More

23andMe’s future prompts more worries, as genomic data analysis improves

Customers of genetic data outfit 23andMe may be at greater risk than they realize, suggests a New York Times story that argues the company’s woes could be short-lived compared to the longer-term threats potentially facing those roughly 15 million people if 23andMe can…Read More

OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into OpenAI’s $6.6 billion fundraising round, the fifth Cybertruck recall in less than a year, and a neat project that’s Shazam-ing songs heard on a San Francisco street. Let’s get into it. OpenAI closed the largest VC round of all time this we…Read More

New York tech investor and serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan explains when to sell your company

Kevin Ryan has had a long and storied career as a pivotal force of New York City tech. He’s the founder and CEO of investment firm AlleyCorp, which has invested in a wide variety of startups, and is a serial founder, participating in the early stages of…Read More

What’s in the rug? How TikTok got swept into a real-time true crime story

A woman in Ohio is being haunted by ghosts. Or maybe she’s not. There’s a dead body buried underneath her house, rolled up inside a rug. Or there’s actually no body at all, despite signals from cadaver dogs. This week’s biggest drama on TikTok tells the story of a woman fro…Read More

5 ‘dumbphones’ that can still run WhatsApp

With the luddite revival in full-swing, here are five dumbphones that can still run WhatsApp — and a few others.
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The ‘Mozart of Math’ isn’t worried about AI replacing math nerds — ever

Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered to be the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChapGPT’s o1 reasoning model to a “mediocre, but not completely incompetent” graduate student that could correctly answer a complex analysis problem with “a lot…Read More

The ‘Mozart of Math’ isn’t worried about AI replacing math nerds — ever

Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered to be the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChapGPT’s o1 reasoning model to a “mediocre, but not completely incompetent” graduate student that could correctly answer a complex analysis problem with “a lot…Read More

Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein, and Guy Oseary are coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Effie Epstein, announced a new $265 million AI fund that was betting big on large language model companies, including…Read More