“Uber, Lyft, and other app-based companies scored a major win on Thursday after California’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that classifies gig workers as independent contractors rather than employees.” ~ learn more
They spent $150k to acquire it in 2018. For context, the owners of pavel.com wanted $98k for my namesake domain the same year. ~ learn more
“OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has asked a New York judge to force the NYT to hand over “underlying reporter’s notes, interview memos, records of materials cited, or other ‘files’” to prove its work can be classed as original works […]
“In San Francisco, robotaxis are like naked guys. The first time you spot one, it feels like a big moment. After that, they fade into the background.” Journalist Benjamin Schneider makes the point that robotaxis are already here and will […]
“They ultimately developed a process that involves taking carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heating them up, and oxidizing them to trigger the separation of fatty acids and then the formulation of fat. The result is real […]
A new startup called Noble believes they do. The tool uses a company’s customer database to help prospects get real product feedback from users who they already know. ~ learn more
Lattice is a platform for managing employees. Today, they “became the first company to give digital workers official employee records in Lattice. This marks a huge moment in the evolution of A1 technology and of the workplace.” This is a […]
This is cool. It’s a demo, of course, so don’t expect to be able to do the same thing any time soon. ~ learn more
“It’s not a SQL statement that would work today in a cloud data warehouse. But an LLM would understand it : summarize the book Moby Dick in two sentences.” ~ learn more
“Much as they would like you to forget, Copilot is not Microsoft’s first crack at a digital assistant. In fact, they’ve built two before this: Clippy and Cortana—the former of which we loved to hate and the latter of which […]