Saturday, October 19, 2024

How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions  —  Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis.  Now locals and tourists can't get enough.



Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic surge during the pandemic helped it build an AI-ready "connectivity cloud", balkanization of the internet, more (Om Malik/Crazy Stupid Tech)

Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech:
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic surge during the pandemic helped it build an AI-ready “connectivity cloud”, balkanization of the internet, more  —  I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he l aunched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt.



Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short (Marah Eakin/Wired)

Marah Eakin / Wired:
Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short  —  Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions.  Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools …



Friday, October 18, 2024

Perplexity launches Internal Knowledge Search, to search the web or internal files, and Spaces, a way to organize research, for its Pro and Enterprise customers (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

Emilia David / VentureBeat:
Perplexity launches Internal Knowledge Search, to search the web or internal files, and Spaces, a way to organize research, for its Pro and Enterprise customers  —  Enterprises can use their Perplexity dashboards to search for internal information and combine it with knowledge from the internet …



Sources: Samsung has postponed taking deliveries of ASML chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory in Taylor, Texas as it has yet to win any major customers (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: Samsung has postponed taking deliveries of ASML chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory in Taylor, Texas as it has yet to win any major customers  —  Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) has postponed taking deliveries of ASML (ASML.AS) chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory …



Byju's founder Byju Raveendran says his edtech startup, valued at $22B in 2022, is effectively "worth zero", and that he made mistakes and mistimed the market (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Byju's founder Byju Raveendran says his edtech startup, valued at $22B in 2022, is effectively “worth zero”, and that he made mistakes and mistimed the market  —  Byju Raveendran, the founder of the embattled edtech group Byju's, acknowledged on Thursday afternoon that he made mistakes …



TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)

Alistair Barr / Business Insider : TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in...