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)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-employees-cashed-3-bil…
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…
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.
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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
Groups urge Supreme Court to leave order in place reinstating Department of Education employees - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/groups-urge-supreme-court-to-leave-order-in-place-reinstating-department-of-education-employees/
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)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/
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
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/as-musk-exits-doge-employees-are-being-booted-from-offices-many-fired-staff-now-being-rehired/articleshow/121730883.cms
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)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/10/noah-thijn-lamers-stable…
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)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-offers-buyouts-empl…