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- Google combines AI teams, Lyft plans to cut 1200+ employees, Stack Overflow to charge for training data
Google combines AI teams, Lyft plans to cut 1200+ employees, Stack Overflow to charge for training data
Google combined both of its AI research teams, Brain and Deepmind, into one unit called Google DeepMind; DeepMind CEO and Co-Founder Demis Hassabis will lead the group - Link
Twitter officially started removing blue verified checkmarks from legacy accounts that do not subscribe to Twitter Blue - Link
Stack Overflow will start charging companies to train AI datasets on its database of 50M questions and answers - Link
WSJ sources: Lyft plans to cut more than 30% of its staff (1200+ employees), aiming to cut costs by 50%, days after new CEO CEO, David Risher took over - Link
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Jason hosts another pitch competition featuring two startups from our Founder University program, then takes Q&A after! Apply for Founder University: https://course.founder.university - Link
Mark Zuckerberg told his staff that future layoffs are still a possibility, and Meta plans to slow employee growth to 1-2% annually - Link
Google updated Bard, enabling it to generate and debug code; Bard can write in 20 programming languages, including C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and others - Link
Optable, a Montreal-based startup building data collaboration platform, raised a $20M Series A - Link
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