Sunday, November 13, 2022

Profile of Dan O'Dowd, who made a fortune with an embedded systems software company and is now obsessed with exposing alleged shortcomings of Tesla's FSD beta (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
Profile of Dan O'Dowd, who made a fortune with an embedded systems software company and is now obsessed with exposing alleged shortcomings of Tesla's FSD beta  —  SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — When Dan O'Dowd had his midlife crisis, he bought two near-identical Tesla Roadsters, the first model the electric carmaker ever produced.



A profile of Unity CEO John Riccitiello, as he faces criticism for the company's targeted ads, his metaverse ambitions, years of dating the head of HR, and more (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A profile of Unity CEO John Riccitiello, as he faces criticism for the company's targeted ads, his metaverse ambitions, years of dating the head of HR, and more  —  John Riccitiello was on top of the metaverse.  Last November the chief executive officer of Unity Software Inc. spilled the news …



Sources: Twitter has eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract staff, with cuts expected to significantly impact content moderation and the core infrastructure (Casey Newton/@caseynewton)

Casey Newton / @caseynewton:
Sources: Twitter has eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract staff, with cuts expected to significantly impact content moderation and the core infrastructure  —  Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running. People inside are stunned.



Factors like a fall in demand and an increase in manufacturing capacity have led to a sharp chip cycle downturn, suggesting a bottom in the market may be near (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Factors like a fall in demand and an increase in manufacturing capacity have led to a sharp chip cycle downturn, suggesting a bottom in the market may be near  —  Growing number of companies have issued weak sales and profit projections  —  If Wall Street had any doubts about the speed …



Binance and Huobi block deposits of FTX's native token, FTT, after 192M tokens worth ~$400M were released out of schedule and without warning (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Binance and Huobi block deposits of FTX's native token, FTT, after 192M tokens worth ~$400M were released out of schedule and without warning  —  The tokens were illicitly released from FTT's main deployer address.  —  Crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi blocked deposits of FTT …



A profile of Changpeng Zhao, as sources describe a divisive entrepreneur on a relentless drive to grow at all costs, including by ignoring regulatory compliance (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A profile of Changpeng Zhao, as sources describe a divisive entrepreneur on a relentless drive to grow at all costs, including by ignoring regulatory compliance  —  The Binance founder's actions left Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX filing for bankruptcy  —  On Tuesday afternoon Changpeng Zhao …



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...