Tim Cook is the best kind of CEO: Boring
Let the Macalope just state upfront that he is not really a fan of “personality” CEOs. This is why it continues to astound him how lucky Apple fans were to have had Steve Jobs. As…
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Intel isn’t a top chip company any more, Intel CEO says
Tough love? Newly appointed Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan told employees this week that the company is not among the top 10 leading chipmakers, according to a report. Tan reportedly made his remarks to a…
“In 10 years, all bets are off”—Anthropic CEO opposes decadelong freeze on state AI laws
On Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued against a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation in a New York Times opinion piece, calling the measure shortsighted and overbroad as Congress considers including it in…
Indian grocery startup KiranaPro was hacked and its servers deleted, CEO confirms
Indian grocery delivery startup KiranaPro has been hacked and all its data has been wiped, the company’s founder confirmed to TechCrunch. The destroyed data included the company’s app code and its servers containing banks of…
Apple CEO reportedly urged Texas’ governor to ditch online child safety bill
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to make changes to or veto a newly passed law in the state that would require the company to verify the ages of device owners,…
Fidji Simo joins OpenAI as new CEO of Applications
In the message, Altman described Simo as bringing “a rare blend of leadership, product and operational expertise” and expressed that her addition to the team makes him “even more optimistic about our future as we…
OpenAI continues naming chaos despite CEO acknowledging the habit
On Monday, OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, its newest series of AI language models that brings a 1 million token context window to OpenAI for the first time and continues a long tradition of…
‘I will make it perfect.’ New Intel CEO promises to fix what’s wrong
Newly appointed Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan said all the right things in his opening statement as Intel’s new chief executive, pledging to earn customer trust and return to an engineering-based culture at the chipmaker.…
How Nvidia’s CEO got me excited about our ‘agentic AI’ future
“The era we’re in now is called the era of reasoning AI which is going to be the foundation layer of the next era of AI, or agentic AI.” This was a statement from Nvidia’s…
Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided with the ability to push a “button” to quit tasks they might find unpleasant. Amodei…