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☆ Rippling CEO Parker Conrad dishes on why the startup is sitting on a massive $750 million war chest
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. To this day, Rippling hasn't touched the money it raised in that emergency package, Conrad told Business Insider. Rippling will invest hundreds of millions of dollars from the balance sheet into research and development this year, according to CEO Parker Conrad. Parker Conrad says Rippling hasn't touched any of the venture capital it raised over the last two rounds. Shepherding the startup through this next growth phase is new chief product officer Eisar Lipkovitz, Rippling told Business Insider exclusively.

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☆ Schools Cut Honors Classes to Address Racial Equity. It Isn’t a Quick Fix.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Photographs Amy Osborne For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Workers are worried about AI taking their jobs. Artists say it's already happening.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Artists say companies are already outsourcing entry-level work to generative AI. Artists were among the first to encounter generative AI. "Companies can use generative AI to throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and churn out thousands of concepts in an afternoon." After she first encountered generative AI, Eva used the Have I been Trained tool and found that several of her artworks had been used to train AI models. AMY OSBORNE/Getty ImagesZhao is also concerned about how generative AI may impact the next generation.

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☆ In a Small California City, Nearly Half the Police Included in Racist Text Threads
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Zusha Elinson | Photographs Amy Osborne For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ San Francisco Residents Seeking Concealed-Carry Permits Endure Long Waits, Fear Scorn
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Zusha Elinson | Photographs Amy Osborne For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SAN FRANCISCO—A San Francisco electrician hides his gun case in a backpack and his ammunition in a toolbox when he loads up his van for a day at the shooting range some 20 miles outside the city. Though he shares many of the liberal values of his neighbors—“I am an equality-loving pronoun-checking, hippie, San Francisco guy”—he conceals his status as a gun owner, worried that they would ostracize him if they knew.

☆ Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Douglas Belkin | Photographs Amy Osborne For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A group of Stanford University professors is pushing to end a system that allows students to anonymously report classmates for exhibiting discrimination or bias, saying it threatens free speech on campus. The backlash began last month, when a student reading “Mein Kampf,” the autobiographical manifesto of Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, was reported through the school’s “Protected Identity Harm” system.

☆ Stanford Faculty Move to Stop Students From Reporting Bias Anonymously
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Douglas Belkin | Photographs Amy Osborne For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Stanford Faculty Moves to Stop Students from Reporting Bias Anonymously
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Douglas Belkin | Photographs Amy Osborne For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of disgraced biotech firm Theranos, bought a one-way ticket to Mexico shortly after she was convicted of fraud last January, a court filing submitted Thursday alleges. Holmes was found guilty on four counts of lying to investors on Jan. 3, 2022. Shortly thereafter, federal prosecutors allege in the filing, Holmes bought a flight to Mexico departing Jan. 26, 2022 without a scheduled return trip. "Only after the government raised this unauthorized flight with defense counsel was the trip canceled," prosecutors say. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila ordered Holmes to surrender herself into custody by April 27.

☆ U.S. slaps sanctions on Iran officials over protest crackdown
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Daphne Psaledakis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A woman chats during a protest against gender-based violence in Iran, in front of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) office in San Francisco, California, U.S., November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Amy OsborneWASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian officials on Wednesday, including the prosecutor general and key military officials, stepping up pressure on Tehran over its crackdown on protests. The move is the latest Washington response to the Iranian crackdown on unrest after the death of young Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody in September. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions on Mohammad Montazeri, Iran’s prosecutor general, accusing him of directing courts in September to issue harsh sentences to many arrested during protests. Washington also imposed sanctions on two senior officials of Iran’s Basij Resistance Forces, a militia affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards that has been widely deployed during the crackdown, and two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials.

☆ Analysis: Silicon Valley's greatest minds misread pandemic demand. Now their employees are paying for it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN Business —In the early months of the pandemic, Facebook only grew bigger and more central to our lives. On Wednesday, however, Zuckerberg reversed course and laid off more than 11,000 employees, marking the most significant cuts in the company’s history. In a memo to staff, Zuckerberg coughed up some of the hardest words in the English language. The Federal Reserve maintained near-zero interest rates at the time, giving tech companies easier access to capital. And private and public market valuations for tech companies only seemed to go higher.

Twitter’s new “Chief Twit” spent the weekend tweeting — and it’s still not much clearer what Elon Musk will do with his new company. He denied a report from The New York Times that he planned to make major layoffs Monday ahead of a date when many Twitter employees receive stock grants. Musk has surrounded himself with Silicon Valley veterans, some of whom have criticized Twitter’s moderation work. Later, he appeared to poke fun at his deleted tweet while also taking a swipe at The New York Times. “This is fake — I did *not* tweet out a link to The New York Times!” Musk wrote alongside a screenshot of the Times’ coverage of his deleted tweet.

☆ Opinion | Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Elisabeth Bik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

One evening in January 2014, I sat at my computer at home, sifting through scientific papers. Manipulated imagery in scientific papers can look ordinary at first glance. However, this ability, combined with my — what some might call obsessive — personality, helped me when hunting duplications in scientific images by eye. So when a scientist’s research shows a negative result, cheating can be tempting. Legitimate criticism of scientific research should receive legal protection.

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