The Stanford professor behind an FDA-cleared cardiac AI wants $1 billion for his next company

Summary: Stanford professor James Zou is reportedly raising approximately $100 million at a valuation targeting $1 billion for a startup called Human Intelligence that applies AI to research on the hu [...]

Ofcom has never blocked an Openreach offer before. It just moved to block this one.

Ofcom proposed on Tuesday to block a discounted wholesale offer from Openreach, the first time the regulator has ever moved to stop a commercial deal from BT’s network arm. The offer would have give [...]

Meta smart glasses banned from courts across England and Wales

His Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service has banned Meta smart glasses from court buildings across England and Wales, a move that pulls one of Silicon Valley’s buzziest gadgets into a very old [...]

Apple is betting John Ternus will bring back Jobs-era decisiveness at the worst possible time to be behind on AI

Summary: Bloomberg frames Apple’s CEO transition as a bet on “Jobs-era decisiveness,” with John Ternus expected to centralise decision-making and move faster on AI, where Apple’s models trail [...]

Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board

The Airbnb chief executive made the argument on the Yahoo Finance podcast Power Players with Brian Sozzi this week. His diagnosis has two parts. “I think part of it’s a narrative issue that we’r [...]

Equitybee lands free benchmarking tool as startup employees finally get equity data companies have had for years

Equitybee has launched Equitybee Benchmark, a free tool that lets US startup employees compare equity grants across roles, seniority levels, departments, and company stages. The company argues that wh [...]

Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop [...]

OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.

OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company following an internal restructuring that merges its safety and research teams under a single leader, Wired reported on Frid [...]

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job

OpenAI has spent two years telling people that ChatGPT can answer almost anything. With its latest release, it wants ChatGPT to finish the job instead. The company has introduced ChatGPT Work, an agen [...]