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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-13 02:50:50

Current and former employees of OpenAI have sold nearly $3B worth of shares in tender offers since 2021, with $1.5B going to SoftBank alone (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Employees Have Cashed Out $3 Billion in Shares
My colleague Sri Muppidi broke the news Wednesday of OpenAI’s latest fundraising talks as it seeks to raise an unprecedented $40 billion. One previously unreported detail is that SoftBank bought about $240 million in shares from a small group of current and former employees this spring.That deal ...

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-14 15:50:45

There is little about Scott Jennings,
or the words that come out of his mouth,
that corresponds to reality.
A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler.
He is perhaps CNN’s most recognizable face alongside its primetime anchors,
and he is feted on jokey, tough-talk shows like Bill Maher. 
But Jennings is a representation of our own malady,
a projection of a country whose political culture is now…

Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.

@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2025-05-14 11:00:10

RAG has revolutionised AI by merging search and generation. Agentic behaviour takes this search to the next level by enabling LLMs to make decisions and call tools. At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Bilge Yücel will discuss how agentic behaviour enhances pipelines, what it means for a system to act as an 'agent', and core concepts such as routing, tool calling and reasoning, along with a live demo.
Learn more:

Session title: Go Beyond Basic RAG with Agentic Behavior
Bilge Yücel
Join us from June 15-17 in Berlin or participate online / berlinbuzzwords.de

Go Beyond Basic RAG with Agentic Behavior
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has transformed how we build Q&A systems with Large Language Models (LLMs) by combining the strengths of search and generation. However, traditional RAG workflows are static and often struggle to handle the dynamic and complex demands of real-world applications, such as answering multi-step queries, integrating external APIs, or gracefully recovering from retrieval failures. Agentic behavior addresses these challenges by extending RAG pipelines, enabling LLM…

@lornajane@indieweb.social
2025-05-13 15:29:03

I'm not sure it's legal to have such a well-reasoned discussion of AI and tech employment, but in case it is: #linkTuesday

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-06-13 13:03:02

PCs: AMD, Intel und Hersteller haben offenbar kein Interesse an PCIe 6.0
SSDs mit PCI Express 5.0 bleiben in den nächsten Jahren das Maß der Dinge. Der Silicon-Motion-Chef gibt Einblick hinter die Kulissen.

PCs: AMD, Intel und Hersteller haben offenbar kein Interesse an PCIe 6.0
SSDs mit PCI Express 5.0 bleiben in den nächsten Jahren das Maß der Dinge. Der Silicon-Motion-Chef gibt Einblick hinter die Kulissen.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-14 03:15:57

Groups urge Supreme Court to leave order in place reinstating Department of Education employees - SCOTUSblog
scotusblog.com/2025/06/groups-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-12 20:30:49

Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants (CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/business/2025/06/

Coinbase (COIN), Shopify (SHOP) Partner to Enable USDC Payments on Base for Merchants Worldwide
The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-13 00:16:35

DOGE employees are being booted from offices: As Musk exits, DOGE employees are being booted from offices; many fired staff now being rehired - The Economic Times
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-15 05:10:50

London-based Noah, which is developing API-focused stablecoin infrastructure to enable real-time cross-border payments, raised a $22M seed led by LocalGlobe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/10/

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Noah raises $22 million, adds Adyen vet as cofounder
“I feel like I have the energy of [when I was] 25,” said Thijn Lamers, who is 66 years old.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-10 19:54:29

Memo: Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff in the knowledge and information organization, which includes core search and much of the ads organization (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Offers Buyouts to Employees in Search and Ads Unit
Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in the knowledge and information organization, which includes the company’s core search and much of the ads organization, a senior executive told staff on Tuesday. The move comes as Google’s search business faces unprecedented threats from ...