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Amazon’s top human resources executive defended the company’s full return-to-office mandate announced last month, noting that young employees have been asking for in-office work to gain mentorship from their colleagues.
The move to five days a week in-office is a return to Amazon’s pre-pandemic approach, where workers showed up in person but still had flexibility to attend to family and other matters, Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and tech, said at The Information’s Wome
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Amazon has the Dyson Airwrap available for close to an all-time low. The Prime Day sale shaves $100 off the price of this innovative styling tool, which can reduce styling time and potentially boost your hair’s long-term health. Usually $600, Amazon’s Prime Day sale drops the tool’s price down to $500. The secret sauce to the Dyson Airwrap is the Coanda effect, which describes airflow’s tendency to follow a curved... Read more ›
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Samsung is offering something extra special this Amazon Prime Day for any shoppers in the market for a new smartphone. The company is discounting its entire line of Galaxy S24 phones. That means you can snag the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra for $998, which is almost 23 percent off. If the premium path isn't your style, then the Samsung Galaxy S24+ is available for $750 and the Samsung Galaxy S24... Read more ›
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From laptops to Legos, Walmart has a wide range of pre-holiday deals. Engadget The holiday season is almost here, and Walmart Holiday Deals are already arriving, fast and furious. If you’re looking to start your shopping early, get some items ahead of the holiday entertaining, or just want to treat yourself (we won't tell), now is the perfect time. Savings are available for all types of products, including some of... Read more ›
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Elon Musk is set to unveil a new chapter in Tesla's history at Robotaxi Day as he attempts to pitch the company as one focused on more than just EVs. Read more ›
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Political and communications experts told BI that leaning into messaging that she's a responsible gun owner may be a strategic move on Harris' part. Read more ›
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The United Arab Emirates' recent investment in OpenAI reflected its mission to leverage its oil wealth to become a new center for AI innovation. Read more ›
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Alleged photos and videos of an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip continue to surface on social media, in what could be the worst product leak for Apple since an employee accidentally left an iPhone 4 prototype at a bar in California in 2010. The latest video of what could be a next-generation MacBook Pro was shared on YouTube Shorts today by Russian channel Romancev768, just one day... Read more ›
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OpenAI just raised one of the biggest private pools of capital in Silicon Valley history. Ironically, one of the biggest questions is how soon it will try to raise that kind of money again, thanks to its high cash burn.Its $6.6 billion financing capped a convoluted and sometimes chaotic process that spanned continents. Investors are valuing OpenAI at $157 billion—on par with publicly traded firms like Siemens, Goldman Sachs and... Read more ›
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Cerebras Systems, a $4 billion-valuation semiconductor designer taking on Nvidia, stands out as one of the few tech startups aiming to list its shares publicly this year, trying to capitalize on investor interest in hardware that powers artificial intelligence. What may dampen some of the fervor is another unusual detail: Its co-founder and CEO, Andrew Feldman, was convicted for an accounting fraud felony nearly two decades ago. Read more ›
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Tesla has embarked on an ambitious effort to design four new versions of its in-house battery to power the Cybertruck, its forthcoming Robotaxi and other electric vehicles, according to people with direct knowledge of its plans. This is the most battery projects the company has worked on simultaneously. The projects come four years after CEO Elon Musk first outlined plans for Tesla’s next battery line, known as the 4680 because... Read more ›
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Lightspeed Venture Partners is raising money for three new funds that could total around $7 billion, according to a person who has discussed the fundraising with the firm’s partners. It’s the latest firm seeking to raise billions after a period when institutional investors pulled back from venture capital. Close to 40% of the new money will go to an opportunity fund that will make follow-on investments in its portfolio companies... Read more ›
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Logistics company Flexport is making fresh job cuts and will sublease excess warehouse space to overhaul the money-losing fulfillment business it acquired from Shopify last year, according to a memo to staff on Wednesday. Flexport, which was valued at $8 billion in a 2022 funding round, has seen revenue drop since then amid a broader collapse in freight markets. At the same time, it has struggled to fit the fulfillment... Read more ›
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There wasn’t any one thing that led to the slow death of Girls in Tech, a standard-bearer nonprofit that provided Silicon Valley women with the kind of mentorship and training opportunities that men took for granted. First, the pandemic struck, and donors shifted their attention to health and science causes. Then the Black Lives Matter movement prompted donors to shift their focus to groups that were more obviously working on... Read more ›
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OpenAI has completed a $6.6 billion fundraise that values the ChatGPT developer at $157 billion, including the investment, the company announced in a blog post on Wednesday. The announcement comes after several weeks of reports the company was in talks with investors including Thrive ... Read more ›
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The internet didn’t hold back in mocking OpenAI and SoftBank in response to my scoop on SoftBank’s Vision Fund investing $500 million at a $150 billion pre-investment valuation in the ChatGPT developer. The commentators quickly interpreted the Japanese telecom giant’s participation in the financing as a sign that the artificial intelligence market is peaking.It’s become clear that the investment firms keen to support OpenAI’s mega-financing are the same ones that... Read more ›
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Tome, a startup whose product uses generative artificial intelligence to quickly generate visual presentations, has laid off nearly a third of its 39 employees, the second round of cuts this year, according to a copy of the announcement. It’s one of a handful of generative AI startups, including ... Read more ›
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Sam Altman should organize a celebration dinner for the men behind the largest venture capital funding round ever. I’d love to overhear SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son give advice to Thrive’s Joshua Kushner on how to avoid giving too much money to charismatic tech founders. Imagine seeing Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella fight over the dinner check to thank Altman for creating the product that boosted their own companies’ fortunes.... Read more ›
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