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“The Zuckerbergs have become cartoon villains.” Privatest School Pissed off neighbors of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg uncovered that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were running a school that violated city code at their Palo Alto compound in California, The New York Times reports. It’s a shocking revelation that couldn’t have come at a worse time for the couple and …

Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report detailing how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in Crescent Park. The piecemeal compound features a main residence, guest homes, manicured gardens, and a pickleball court — even a …

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“Relative to other companies, a lot fewer people from Anthropic have been caught by these. And it’s not for lack of trying,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently revealed on the Big Technology Podcast. “I’ve talked to plenty of people who got these offers at Anthropic and who just turned them down. Who wouldn’t even talk to Mark Zuckerberg.” Meta’s been …

A graduate of the prestigious University of Cambridge, he started his career as a strategist with Goldman Sachs before an 11 year stint with Meta, where he worked mostly on machine learning. In October 2023, he quit Meta for OpenAI – the company that revolutionized the AI race with ChatGPT. Just over a year later, he moved from OpenAI to …

It has been another busy week. GPT-5 appears to be just around the corner… This week, I decode the meaning behind Mark Zuckerberg’s “personal superintelligence” manifesto, and what it means for the broader AI race. Keep reading for my chat with a Figma exec on the company’s IPO day, a bunch of good links, and some feedback from last week’s …

Since November 2022, the world of AI has been near-synonymous with one tool and one tool alone: ChatGPT. Last week, we discovered that users pepper OpenAI’s chatbot with 2.5 billion prompts every day, according to newly released data from the company, while a staggering half a billion people every week interact with the chatbot. If social media was the marker …

In the summer of 2016, Alexandr Wang was a 19-year-old building his data-labeling startup, Scale AI, in a Silicon Valley pool house with his cofounder, Lucy Guo, while the two participated in the Y Combinator startup accelerator. When not working, the two founders slept on air mattresses and pondered the fledgling business’s potential. Less than a decade later, the pool …

Compute power is a big draw for top talent, but not just in the world of AI. Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife and the cofounder of the couple’s philanthropic organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, spoke about the appeal of massive GPU clusters for biology researchers during a recent episode of Ashlee Vance’s “Core Memory” podcast. “The other thing researchers really …