Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is leaving to join an early-stage company

Pinterest’s chief financial officer is leaving for a private, early-stage company, and investors reacted quickly. Julia Donnelly will step down on October 30, Reuters reported, with the company’s [...]

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 [...]

Bumble is letting men make the first move, dismantling the rule it was built on

Bumble is preparing to let men make the first move, a change that unpicks the single rule the dating app was built around. According to Bloomberg a coming messaging update will let men open conversati [...]

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 [...]

China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme storms close in

As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on China’s coast this week, the country’s bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure. [...]

River AI raised $1.1bn to let companies train and keep their own models

River AI has raised $1.1bn, roughly four months after the company was incorporated. General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and further mone [...]

Italian scientists ready a new solar instrument for a make-or-break eclipse test

talian researchers have packed up a new solar instrument, driven it carefully across the continent by road rather than risk it in an aircraft hold, and readied it for one of the more nerve-racking exp [...]

Nvidia stopped funding the AI boom alone, Saudi banks cannot fund theirs, and 500 US towns have banned the buildings

  Nvidia said on Monday it would partner with six of the largest names in private capital to finance AI infrastructure through vehicles worth more than $500 billion. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Br [...]

Fei-Fei Li: the real risk of AI in classrooms is students who stop wanting to learn

Fei-Fei Li thinks schools are worrying about the wrong thing. The danger of AI in classrooms is not that students will use it to cheat, she argues, but that it will strip away their reason to learn at [...]