The European mind cannot comprehend this.

This may be the best single sentence ever written in tech journalism

En se "baladant" sur Google Maps, on remarque également le même suspect... transportant le sac (et potentiellement le corps de la victime) dans une brouette.

San Francisco being San Francisco

Of all the ways to publicly address your senior colleagues leaving OpenAI, this was certainly one of them

Sequoia's Michael Moritz on Trump.

Contre le RN, il y a cette tribune @Mediapart du numérique d'intérêt général (blogs.mediapart.fr/francoish…) et cette motion des chercheur•ses du @cis_cnrs (cis.cnrs.fr/motion-du-cis-co…). A lire. Mais, existe-t-il des déclarations officielles du secteur de la tech française à ce sujet ?

aaaaand it’s July

Et une pensée pour les binationaux franco-américains en PLS 🥲

Literally all vendors right now.

NEW: The S-1 of healthcare data company founded by the Groupon founder revealed, well, a lot of fun details: - A last-minute $200M deal w/ SoftBank. - a name change to add AI but only ~1% of AI revenue - 30:1 voting power for founder - lots of cash burn theinformation.com/articles/…

Une trentaine de sujets ont été dépubliés des sites de France Télévisions : le risque de réidentification de personnes floutées grâce à des nouvelles technologies était trop important, raconte @Xeutrope. L'IA est à la fois un poison et son propre remède. larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/urge…

Modern office poetry mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-c…

Silicon Valley spin off (10 years later) - Erlich is a crypto billionaire effective altruist. Promoting his meme coin non stop. - Dinesh became the CEO of Hooli. Stock is killing it bc of his AI investments. Has an AI girlfriend. - Richard wrote the paper which started the AI revolution but another founder named Sam Saltman capitalized on it. He’s trying to catch up. - Jared is the #1 VC in the world. Funded Richard’s AI company out of loyalty. - Gilfoyle has a small hard tech fund. Settled into family life. Has 3 kids. - Russ Hanneman has a TV show. He promotes DEI. - Jin Yian started a crypto exchange and got arrested for embezzling 10b. Currently a fugitive. - Monica had a successful VC career. Retired to run for office.

1/ I often give this advice to founders around fundraising: The best fundraises are ones where you are so "fundable" that its easy. You really don't want to fundraise when you are "unfundable" or even borderline "fundable". Those fundraises take months and are demoralizing.

Interesting peek inside the black box of gig-work algorithms, an antechamber of the AI-fueled future of work ft.com/content/5c72d938-5d17…