New: the rise of OpenAI has put Sam Altman at the helm of arguably the most consequential technology today. But experts warn of uncomfortable parallels between Altman and Mark Zuckerberg, whose social media empire changed the world forever. My deep dive businessinsider.com/ai-techn…
Scoop w/@CallumBurroughs: US venture capital firm Sequoia has written down its stake in British chip firm Graphcore. The company, valued at almost $3 billion, is currently undergoing layoffs globally. businessinsider.com/graphcor…
New w/@CallumBurroughs: Some of Europe’s most prized startups have started to show signs of weakness as layoffs and valuation cuts mount. Several VCs told us that worse is yet to come for a region desperate to prove it can emulate Silicon Valley businessinsider.com/europes-…
🚨 Scoop w/@_hasanc: Grocery delivery startup Gorillas is set to raise $250m in funding from internal investors in a bid to extend the company's runway. The deal comes on the back of the business cutting half of its staff in May. More on @BusinessInsider: businessinsider.com/rapid-gr…
New: Tiger Global backed the ‘Netflix of Russia’ a decade ago. Now, the New York hedge fund’s bet sits uncomfortably alongside investments from Roman Abramovich and other sanctioned entities businessinsider.com/tiger-gl…
Exc: spoke to Sir Richard Branson about Virgin Galactic's future plans after the company announced it was going public in merger with Social Capital Hedosophia, the investment vehicle of ex-Facebook billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya: telegraph.co.uk/technology/2…
One of the important things #anthonybourdain did was humanize Muslims without changing their ingredients. He showed Iranians while he ate sangak; Egyptians while he ate fūl, Lebanese while he ate fatūsh and Senegalese while he ate Mafé,