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When Ryan Daniels began asking job candidates to come in on Sundays, he expected some eye rolls. Loading audio narration… Daniels is the founder of Crosby, a startup-law-firm-hybrid that provides basic legal services to other startups. Instead, he said, many candidates responded with relief. A Sunday interview meant they did not have to burn a vacation day on a hiring process that increasingly asks candidates to prove themselves on the job before they are hired.Employers are pushing deeper into “work trials,” asking candidates to complete projects or audition in the office, as artificial intelligence makes it easier to inflate a…
Indeed is closely watching how its employees are using AI, but it’s staying “far, far away” from any sort of “Tokenmaxxing” leaderboard. Loading audio narration… “We track token use, but we use it in the background,” Indeed’s chief information officer, Anthony Moisant, told Business Insider in an interview. “We definitely are not going to use a leaderboard.”Moisant said there’s nothing “inherently wrong” with the types of reported leaderboards that Meta and other Big Tech companies are using to encourage employees to use as many tokens as possible. He just wants to track metrics that are closer to outcomes.”I think anytime…
The AGI House, in San Francisco’s hilly Twin Peaks neighborhood, is a mansion with an expansive view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the hills of Marin, seven bedrooms, and a toilet on the main floor so modern that it includes written instructions on how to operate. It houses technologists working to accelerate artificial general intelligence, and hosts events that bring together people working toward this mission. But on April 12, the house was reserved for another potentially world-altering development: peptides.More than 100 people arrived for the California Peptide Club, an invite-only gathering to discuss the substances that have become…
Cerebras Systems, a startup building what CEO Andrew Feldman describes as “the fastest AI hardware for training and inference,” has filed to go public. The company previously filed for an initial public offering in 2024, but that was delayed due to a federal review of an investment from Abu Dhabi-based G42 and was ultimately withdrawn. Cerebras raised a $1.1 billion Series G last year, followed by a $1 billion Series H in February at a $23 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use Cerebras chips…
Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration. There were earlier signs of a thawing relationship — or a sense that not every part of the administration wanted to cut off Anthropic — with reports saying that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell were encouraging the heads of major banks to test out Anthropic’s new Mythos model. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark seemed to confirm this, claiming that the ongoing fight over the supply-chain risk designation is a “narrow contracting dispute” that would not…
A new side project, Lunches.fyi, takes the AI tooling craze in a lighter direction, ranking tech companies not by market cap, but by cafeteria quality. Loading audio narration… It was built by coding prankster Riley Walz in about an hour using voice-dictated commands into OpenAI’s Codex (a task he says might previously have taken 20+ hours).The site scrapes publicly available tech company menus and uses AI to categorize and score meals. Early results crowned Nvidia a surprise leader, serving everything from “truffle mushroom pizza” to leafy greens worthy of its stock performance.But the experiment also highlights a familiar truth: AI…
Legendary venture capitalist Ron Conway has revealed he has a “rare” form of cancer. Loading audio narration… The tech investor known as “The Godfather of Silicon Valley” said he is stepping back from the company he co-founded, SV Angel, to begin treatment but will remain involved.In a post on X, he told followers: “I want to share some difficult news. I was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and I want you to hear it directly from me.”Treatment is starting immediately and will include multiple strategies over the course of about a year. While I will be stepping…
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. According to a new analysis from market intelligence provider Appfigures, worldwide app releases in the first quarter of 2026 were up 60% year-over-year across both Apple’s App Store and Google Play. That percentage was an even higher 80% when looking at the iOS App Store alone. In April 2026 so far, the total number of app releases is up 104% across both stores compared to the same time last year, and up 89% on iOS. As Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Greg “Joz” Joswiak, quipped In…
I first heard about biohacking on social media about a year ago, after coming across Bryan Johnson, a famous biohacker who spends $2 million a year to stay alive as long as possible. His Instagram bio ambitiously reads, “We may be the first generation who won’t die.”It’s fair to say I was intrigued.Biohackers optimize their bodies and minds to live longer and better. So, when I walked into Shack15, a members-only social club in San Francisco, for a biohacking event, I expected to see a bunch of Bryan Johnson dopplegangers — people in matching smartwatches, obsessively tracking their bodies and…
The celebrities and wannabe celebrities who usually inhabit LA’s Nobu Malibu were swapped out Wednesday night by bankers in sport coats mingling with startup founders, munching on caviar handrolls while sipping lychee martinis and champagne. The good times are back. Loading audio narration… It was the closing party for the Jefferies Private Growth Conference, where the bank pairs investors with executives from late-stage companies like Ramp and Databricks. Speed dating for startups, with wagyu beef and a prime ocean view.The mood at this year’s event was ebullient, no doubt helped by the free-flowing Nobu open bar and an energetic DJ…