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Until this week, I didn’t know Keith O’Brien existed. The payroll compliance manager—and now accused corporate spy—was suddenly very interested in me.
O’Brien’s curiosity was piqued last month when I was writing a story about a bitter feud between his company, Rippling, and its archrival, Deel. O’Brien allegedly searched for my name in Rippling’s Slack channels 15 times. He searched for the name of this publication, The Information, 31 times.
O’Brien appeared in an Irish courtroom Wednesday. He is accused
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Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at Elon Musk over two nights following the Tesla arson and vandalism attacks — and the Tesla CEO was listening. Read more ›
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You might be a fraudster if you complain about a missed Social Security check, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the All-In podcast. Read more ›
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Elon Musk shared a photo of his DOGE office setup at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Friday, revealing a massive gaming screen. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's super PAC has spent millions of dollars on a Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the first major statewide campaign since Trump's election. Read more ›
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Trump said "special needs" education and nutrition programs will be handled by HHS and the Small Business Administration will handle student loans. Read more ›
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Elon Musk said at an all-hands meeting on Tuesday evening that he "can't walk past a TV without seeing a Tesla on fire." Read more ›
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Elon Musk held a last-minute all-hands event at Tesla's Texas Gigafactory. Some workers felt perplexed, while others were reassured. Read more ›
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Someone has responded to YouTuber Mark Rober’s Tesla fake wall test with a video that also tries to address the question of whether the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) features would detect a Wile E. Coyote-style road obstruction in the real world. Creator Kyle Paul posted his video Thursday and included two Teslas with FSD: a […] Read more ›
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"So what I am saying is, 'Hang on to your stock,'" Musk told employees in the Texas Gigafactory. Read more ›
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My American family moved from the US to Okinawa and have now lived in Japan for years. Driving, shopping, and parenting here have surprised me. Read more ›
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is pushing to cut bureaucracy by reducing management layers, according to a recording of a recent internal all-hands meeting obtained by Business Insider. Amazon plans to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by 15% by March-end, a process the company says is now complete and affected a "relatively small subset of employees." "The way to get ahead at Amazon is not to go accumulate... Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Today I’m focusing on powerful private institutions caving to Donald Trump’s demands — and a law firm demonstrating another way forward. What’s the latest? Donald Trump took back an executive […] Read more ›
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Tori Carter and Kirk Rickman sold their home in December 2022 to become full-time cruisers. They've since been on 29 sailings. Read more ›
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A California law firm is pursuing a class action lawsuit against Apple, claiming it falsely advertised Apple Intelligence. Read more ›
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Amazon wants fewer management layers and a merit-based culture, as CEO Andy Jassy stresses the importance of speed and employee ownership. Read more ›
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Travel experts say the chaos could cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue. Luckily, Heathrow is already restarting flights. Read more ›
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Famous singers and musicians who date each other often end up collaborating on music, like Sonny and Cher and Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco. Read more ›
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If you didn't attend Nvidia's GTC conference this year, here are five big takeaways you missed, from advancements in robotics to quantum computing. Read more ›
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Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr said companies looking for regulatory approval should “get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” according to an interview with Bloomberg. Carr reportedly brought up Paramount’s merger with Skydance, Verizon’s purchase of Frontier Communications, and T-Mobile’s plans to acquire most of US Cellular as potential […] Read more ›
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Before OpenAI in January launched Operator, its artificial intelligence that uses the web to plan trips, compile reports and shop online for people, it asked DoorDash to be an official “launch partner” for the new product. DoorDash agreed—but it had a question. In a meeting last fall between the companies, a DoorDash executive asked OpenAI managers to “take this to its logical limit,” according to someone who attended the meeting.... Read more ›
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Google plans to work with a new firm to help design and produce some of its artificial intelligence chips: MediaTek. Google is preparing to team up with the Taiwanese firm on the next version of the chips, known as Tensor Processing Units, that would be produced next year, according to two people involved in the project. Read more ›
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Until this week, I didn’t know Keith O’Brien existed. The payroll compliance manager—and now accused corporate spy—was suddenly very interested in me. O’Brien’s curiosity was piqued last month when I was writing a story about a bitter feud between his company, Rippling, and its archrival, Deel. O’Brien allegedly searched for my name in Rippling’s Slack channels 15 times. He searched for the name of this publication, The Information, 31 times.... Read more ›
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Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company’s video-streaming service, had been striking, including for “Argylle,” a spy action-comedy starring Henry Cavill and Dua Lipa. The movie, which cost $200 million to produce, hadn’t found much of an audience or generated more subscribers for the service, Cook told his colleagues, according to a former Apple TV+ employee. Cook had... Read more ›
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Next month, a much-anticipated Federal Trade Commission trial against Meta Platforms is expected to kick off in a federal courtroom in Washington. If the government gets its way, the trial could end up forcing Meta to sell one or both of its most popular apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, but it will likely take months or years before that’s known. But the trial is already having an impact on how Meta... Read more ›
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For Silicon Valley venture capitalists dealing with overpriced bets made during the low-interest rate period, Rippling and Deel have been bright spots. The San Francisco HR rivals passed new revenue milestones and minted higher valuations—great news for investors who poured a combined $2 billion into both startups. By some measures, Deel’s investors have had the most to crow about. Deel, the six-year-old startup valued at $12.6 billion in February, passed... Read more ›
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The unexpected popularity of Manus, a so-called computer-using AI that takes over a person’s web browser to execute tasks like travel booking and stock analysis, has put the Chinese startup behind it in a bind. The firm’s ability to meet demand for the product, also known as an agent, is limited both by its server capacity and, more importantly, by its operating costs. Manus uses Anthropic’s AI models and pays... Read more ›
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As Google attempts to catch up to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, its DeepMind artificial intelligence unit is in a near constant state of flux. Two years after Google merged its two AI units to form Google DeepMind, the unit’s chief, Demis Hassabis, has expanded his purview by adding numerous other teams. He has added oversight of Google’s Gemini chatbot, Google’s AI studio team, which creates software for developers building apps using Gemini,... Read more ›
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One of the most underappreciated applications of artificial intelligence in the corporate world involves its role in writing performance reviews.Take Moderna, the pharmaceutical giant. Late last year, Brice Challamel, its vice president of AI products and platforms, noticed a trend: ChatGPT usage by the pharmaceutical firm’s employees spiked every quarter, around the time managers conduct performance reviews. Staff appeared to use ChatGPT to write both their self-evaluations and those of... Read more ›
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Apple has enlisted the help of Mike Rockwell, the leader of its Vision Pro product, to get the company’s struggling artificial intelligence efforts back on track, Bloomberg reported. Rockwell will take over the development of Siri, Apple’s longtime intelligent assistant, from John Giannandrea, ... Read more ›
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