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An unprecedented wave of wealth is washing over Silicon Valley, and many tech employees will soon face a problem most people would love to have: what to do with company stock that has become worth a fortune.SpaceX’s IPO has created thousands of new millionaires, and many centimillionaires. Other private tech companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, have filed for IPOs, and big public tech companies such as Nvidia have made workers rich as their stock prices soared in recent years.This kind of wealth comes with a catch. Many tech employees are not sitting on piles of cash. They hold company stock.…
A proposed Google data center project in Iowa has found an unlikely opponent: another data center owner.Doug Sevey, president and CEO of Enseva, went viral this month thanks to a clip from the kind of meeting that has inflamed communities across the US.”Everything Google is telling you is BS,” Sevey said in a video from a Palo, Iowa, city council meeting on June 1, adding, “They’re going to burn through the water, and when it’s done, it’s done, and they don’t care.”Sevey, who has built and run several data centers, told Business Insider they need to be “done right” —…
Noam Shazeer, a co-lead at Gemini and the founder of Character.AI is leaving Google to join OpenAI in the latest AI talent war move.In an X post on Wednesday, Shazeer announced his departure and said he looks forward to working with the “exceptional team” at the ChatGPT maker.”It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together,” Shazeer wrote. “It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.”In a Wednesday X post, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Shazeer “is one of the people…
It happened to me: I opened a Google Doc to write an article, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display, but I could not find it. It made me mad. Now, instead of writing the article I’m supposed to be working on, I am writing about how to get the AI pop-ups off of your Google Docs screen, since it took me some time to figure out. You’re welcome. What is this monstrosity? Why won’t it just go away?Image Credits:Screenshot…
For months, and sometimes longer, parents of kids with disabilities say they have waited for the Education Department to make progress on their complaints of bullying or other discrimination.Now that the department is offloading civil rights enforcement and special education, some parents and advocates warn a process that has largely been stalled since President Donald Trump took office will see only more chaos and roadblocks. “It’s to the point I don’t even check in anymore with the attorney,” said Nicole May, an Ohio mother. May filed a complaint in spring 2024 with the department’s Office for Civil Rights, alleging her…
If you’ve been eyeing a new iPhone, MacBook, or iPad, waiting to buy one could get more expensive.The culprit isn’t tariffs or flashy new features. It’s memory.CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal in an exclusive interview published on Wednesday that Apple could raise prices on some of its products as a global shortage of memory chips drives up costs across the consumer electronics industry,”Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” Cook said. “We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the…
Womp, womp. Debbie Downer is back. And she’s talking about AI.On Sunday, Rachel Dratch — the “SNL” alum currently starring in Broadway’s “Rocky Horror Show” revival— gave a commencement speech to graduates at Dartmouth College.Like many commencement speakers this season, Dratch brought up the impact of AI on careers. Unlike business leaders including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt who were booed after making optimistic remarks about the technology, Dratch got her audience laughing.She did it with help from one of her most famous “SNL” characters.”Quite an achievement graduating from Dartmouth,” Dratch said as Debbie Downer, before launching into one of…
Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX’s board of directors, less than a week after the company went public in the largest IPO ever. SpaceX announced the appointment in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. It said Botha was appointed “to fill the existing vacancy on the Board” and that he will serve until SpaceX’s next annual shareholder meeting. He will also join the SpaceX board’s audit committee. Botha didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Botha “brings extensive public company experience along with a deep audit committee background, having served on…
Snap’s long-awaited AR glasses, Specs, didn’t have the best debut. The company’s stock hasn’t been on the healthiest trajectory lately. It’s dropped 30% over the past year. Following Specs’ launch, it sank more than 5% — falling from $5.86 a share on Tuesday to a low of $4.83 on Wednesday morning. As of this writing, the stock still hasn’t recovered the position it held prior to the announcement. The big concern surrounding Snap’s new smart glasses — which the company has been working on for over a decade — is the cost: The company maintains they will retail at nearly $2,200…
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed its internal leaderboard. This tension between hype and ROI is exactly where NEA partner Tiffany Luck lives these days. She got her start convincing companies that e-commerce was the future, and now she’s all in on AI, especially when it comes to the possibilities for “magic moments” in the consumer business. On this episode of…