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Travis Kalanick is back: How Uber’s ousted founder went from pariah to Silicon Valley hero | Fortune
In 2017, it looked as if the tech world had seen the last of Travis Kalanick. Following a spate of scandals and allegations ranging from sexism to corporate espionage, Uber’s own investors took the extraordinary step of forcing the...
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Trump calls AI oversight a ‘globalist scheme’ as Amodei and Altman head to the UN to ask for it | Fortune
President Donald Trump, in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, rejected the idea of international oversight of artificial intelligence—what he has just taken to calling “superintelligence.” In thus address, he called such proposals a “globalist...
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We’re the world’s largest satellite operator tracking greenhouse gases and we see the climate tech sector chasing the wrong breakthrough | Fortune
Venture capital has a soft spot for the moonshot story: the single, transformative breakthrough innovation that solves a previously entrenched, impenetrable challenge. It’s certainly an appealing narrative. I’ve pitched investors, and I know that a new, dramatic story is easier...
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‘They must be doing it for ulterior reasons’: Jensen Huang says AI leaders are ‘irresponsible’ for scaring the public with ‘doomsday narratives’ | Fortune
Out of the chaos of AI doomerism AI leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have found themselves at the center of, the leader of the most valuable company in the world—and the creator of AI’s chip foundation—is rejecting...
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U.S.-China gastrodiplomacy: Despite political tension, fast food chains from both countries gain popularity in each other’s territory | Fortune
China and the United States are divided on many issues, from tariffs and technology to Taiwan. But there is one thing tying them together: fast food.American restaurant and beverage chains are expanding rapidly in China, drawn by the potential customer pool in a country...
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Pat Gelsinger and Naveen Rao: we’ve seen Silicon Valley move fast and break things, but consider the math of where we’re headed | Fortune
We Work In AI. We’ve Seen It Eliminate Jobs. We’ve Also Seen It Create More JobsSilicon Valley used to encourage one another to “move fast and break things.” Then we broke everything. And people started to get angry.Every major...
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OpenAI hires Brian McCarthy from SpaceX as its VP of worldwide sales | Fortune
OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to become its vice president of worldwide sales.McCarthy joined SpaceX in August through its acquisition of Cursor. At both companies he served as the president of global revenue and worldwide field operations....
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Ukraine pushes Russia back on front line where Starlink has played key role
He is fixed on the live stream as a Ukrainian snare swoops in, hovers for a few seconds and...