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AdvertisementByteDance has sued a former intern for $1.1 million, per Chinese media reports. The TikTok owner claims he sabotaged an AI model training project by modifying code. TikTok owner ByteDance has filed a lawsuit seeking damages of $1.1 million against a former intern it has accused of sabotaging an AI training project, according to local media reports. Multiple Chinese media outlets reported this week that ByteDance is seeking 8 million yuan, about $1.1 million, and a public apology. Tian's LinkedIn profile states that he has been a research intern at ByteDance's VC team and AI lab since 2021.
Persons: ByteDance, Tian Keyu, Tian, Tian didn't Organizations: China Morning Post, BBC, ByteDance's, Business, Chinese Communist Party Locations: Beijing
Targeting Chinese chip equipment makers could benefit European firms such as ASML. The Biden administration is reported to be considering fresh sanctions against Chinese semiconductor equipment manufacturers, pushing up stocks of semiconductor suppliers in Europe and Japan. The suggested curbs would add an extra 100 Chinese chip equipment makers to the entity list, the outlet reported. AdvertisementAs part of the sweeping sanctions, the US could add 200 Chinese chip firms to its trade blacklist, Wired reported. American chip equipment makers and allies such as Japan and the Netherlands reportedly pushed back against earlier proposals.
Persons: Biden, SMIC, Jim Reid, Mao Ning, US Department of Commerce didn't Organizations: Wired, Bloomberg, Tokyo, Huawei, CSI, Deutsche, US Department of Commerce, Business Locations: Europe, Japan, China, Shanghai, Netherlands
The US Department of Commerce announced the grant, part of the CHIPS Act, on Tuesday. President-elect Donald Trump has criticized the CHIPS Act in favor of tariffs. Intel is receiving about $7.9 billion in federal grants, the US Department of Commerce said Tuesday, as the Biden administration finalizes CHIPS Act agreements ahead of Donald Trump taking office. President-elect Trump has previously criticized the CHIPS Act and suggested he would prefer tariffs to incentivize semiconductor manufacturing on US soil. The CHIPS Act cash will help Intel boost its semiconductor production in the US.
Persons: Biden, Donald Trump, Joe Biden's, Trump, Gina Raimondo, Pat Gelsinger Organizations: Intel, US Department of Commerce, Department of Commerce, New York Times, Bloomberg, Street, Qualcomm Locations: Arizona , New Mexico , Ohio, Oregon
AdvertisementThreads is letting users choose a default feed, Mark Zuckerberg has said. Meta's move to compete with Bluesky's growth follows a wave of users leaving Elon Musk's X. With its recent rapid growth, Bluesky faces fresh challenges, including content moderation. Threads is stepping up its game by giving users the power to pick their default feed as it battles to keep pace with Bluesky's explosive growth. Droves of X users recently left the platform because of concerns over hate speech and misinformation.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's, Elon Musk's, Rose Wang, Platformer's Casey Newton, Bluesky, Aaron Rodericks, Adam Mosseri, Mosseri, Instagram, It's, Meta didn't Organizations: Elon Musk's, Elon, Bluesky, Meta, Business
AdvertisementBluesky's user base surged to 21 million, prompting the company to race to get more servers. Its growth follows users leaving X, with over 280,000 closing their accounts on Election Day. Bluesky has "blown past" its user growth projections so much that it's racing to get more servers to keep the site running smoothly, the social media platform's chief operating officer has said. AdvertisementThe social media network has surpassed 21 million users, up from 13 million in October, as X users have left in droves and flocked to the platform. The US election appears to have triggered a migration of X users to Bluesky, which has been praised because of its similarity to the "old Twitter."
Persons: Rose Wang, Bluesky, Wang, Gordon MacMillan, X's, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Jack Dorsey, Jay Gruber, Dorsey, Musk, Elon Organizations: Twitter, Wired
AdvertisementAmazon has told staff in Germany they can apply to work from home for up to two days a week. Amazon has a global mandate for all employees to return five days a week to the office from January. Amazon employees in Germany will be able to apply to work from home up to two days a week when the company's global return-to-office mandate takes effect, Business Insider has learned. Amazon said the expectation is still for employees to work from the office five days a week in Germany, and that it had a similar flexible work policy before the pandemic. It also states that the policy applies to all Amazon employees in Germany, but it does not include Twitch and Audible employees.
Persons: Slack, Andy Jassy, Amazon, Jassy, it's, Jyoti Mann Organizations: BI, Amazon, Business Locations: Germany, jyotimann
AdvertisementA bipartisan US congressional commission urges a "Manhattan Project" for AI to outpace China. Trump has previously called China the "primary threat" in the AI race. AdvertisementThe Manhattan Project was a secret program led by the US government during World War II to develop the world's first atomic bombs. Advertisement"We have to take the lead over China, China is the primary threat," he added. OpenAI also cited the Manhattan Project in its blueprint as one of the US's "iconic infrastructure projects that moved the country forward."
Persons: Trump, Donald Trump, Logan, Joe Biden's, OpenAI, Yoshua, Max Tegmark Organizations: China, China Economic, Security, Commission, General Intelligence, US Treasury Department, Business, Manhattan Project, Life Institute, MIT, Guardian, Elon Locations: China, US, Washington
Blackwell chips are key for AI development, promising improved speed over Nvidia predecessors. The chips are also considered a key growth driver for Nvidia, with one analyst previously likening Blackwell to an iPhone moment. Last month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC that "demand for Blackwell is insane" and separately said that Blackwell is sold out for the next 12 months. AdvertisementNvidia has already delayed shipment of the next-generation AI chips by a quarter after The Information reported in August that it had design flaws. SoftBank is the first customer to use Nvidia's Blackwell chips, the companies said at Nvidia's AI summit in Japan last week.
Persons: Blackwell, Hopper, Jensen Huang, Beth Kindig, Huang, Nvidia's Blackwell Organizations: Nvidia, Companies, CNBC, Amazon Web, Meta, Microsoft, Reuters, Business Locations: TSMC, Japan
AdvertisementUsers and brands, like former CNN anchor Don Lemon and The Guardian, have been leaving X.Gordon MacMillan, ex-head of content strategy at Twitter, says Bluesky is most like the old Twitter. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gordon MacMillan, who was previously the head of content strategy at Twitter. Bluesky feels familiar to Twitter usersBluesky, I think, is the most like the old Twitter and feels more familiar than Threads, which doesn't have Twitter-style lists and can be hard to organize content on. They have tweaked Threads and made improvements, but Bluesky feels more familiar, even beyond the use of the color blue. It feels like BlueSky and Threads have a much better environment.
Persons: Don Lemon, Gordon MacMillan, Bluesky, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Musk, X, it's, Jack Dorsey, BlueSky, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: CNN, Guardian, Twitter, Facebook, Elon, Trump, Business Locations: Israel
Elon Musk has added Microsoft as a defendant to an amended lawsuit against OpenAI. The suit, which also adds Reid Hoffman as defendant, accuses Microsoft and OpenAI of forming a monopoly. AdvertisementThe suit describes Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI as a "de facto merger" and said, "Microsoft is now OpenAI, and OpenAI, Microsoft." The amended lawsuit is the latest escalation between longtime rivals Musk and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. Microsoft, OpenAI, and Hoffman didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.
Persons: Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, OpenAI, , Shivon Zilis, Zilis, Musk, Mustafa Suleyman, Sam Altman, cofounders Altman, Greg Brockman, SoftBank, Navneet Govil, Govil, BI's Hasan Chowdhury, Hoffman didn't, Hoffman Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Service, Bloomberg, New York Times, OpenAI's San, Financial Times, Business Locations: Neuralink, Northern California, OpenAI's, OpenAI's San Francisco
In today's big story, Big Tech is pulling back on the freebies for its employees . The perks help recruit and retain talent and keep employees working at the office. Some Amazon employees aren't buying it. It's not all bad news for Amazon employees, though. Some Amazon employees support Jeff Bezos' controversial WaPo decision.
Persons: , David Arky, Tyler Le, Insider's Lara O'Reilly, Rob Price, Hugh Langley, Sydney Bradley, It's, Matt Garman, Frederic J . BROWN, BI's Jyoti Mann, Ashley Stewart, Garman, Stave Huffman, Spencer Platt, Natalie Ammari, Tesla, Meta, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez, Harris, Trump, you'll, Jeff Bezos, Bezos, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, Milan Sehmbi Organizations: Business, Service, Microsoft, SEC, Big Tech, Meta, Citibank, Tech, Services, Getty, Amazon Web Services, Amazon, BI, Google, Semiconductor, Intel, Washington Post, Apple Locations: OpenAI, AFP, New York, London
AWS CEO Matt Garman has been sent a letter from employees protesting his pro-RTO comments. Over 500 employees have signed a letter, sent on Wednesday, urging Garman to reconsider the plans. AdvertisementAmazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman is facing backlash from some employees over his comments about its return-to-office policy, according to an open letter obtained by Business Insider. The policy is stricter than at Amazon's peer companies and, by some accounts, stricter than Amazon's office work policy before the pandemic. The letter has been signed by 523 staff from Amazon and AWS, with 172 of those including their names.
Persons: Matt Garman, Garman, , Matt doesn't, Elizabeth Rutledge, Garman's, Andy Jassy, Margaret Callahan, we're, Amazon's, Jyoti Mann, Ashley Stewart Organizations: Service, Web, Business, AWS, BI, American Express, Amazon Locations: jyotimann
Parag Agrawal updated his LinkedIn page with his AI startup's name for the first time: Parallel Web Systems. The ex-Twitter CEO raised about $30 million for the startup, The Information reported in January. AdvertisementThe former CEO of Twitter has moved his AI startup out of stealth mode with a previously unknown name: Parallel Web Systems. Agrawal raised about $30 million for the startup, The Information reported in January when the startup's name was still unknown. From Twitter to AI startupAgrawal was the CEO of Twitter from November 2021 to October 2022, when Elon Musk fired him following his acquisition of the platform.
Persons: Parag Agrawal, Parallel's, , Agrawal, Elon Musk, Kurt Wagner's, Wagner, Musk, Ned Segal, Vijaya Gadde, Sean Edgett Organizations: Systems, AIs, Service, Twitter, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, LinkedIn, Company, Shapley Inc, Business Locations: Palo Alto , California, San Francisco
The probe follows reports of crashes in low visibility areas with Full Self-Driving engaged. AdvertisementTesla is facing a fresh investigation from the national auto safety watchdog after reports of four crashes in which its Full Self-Driving technology was engaged. The new probe will cover 2.4 million Tesla vehicles. In April, the NHTSA started a separate probe into Tesla over crashes involving its Autopilot program. The regulator said at the time that it investigated 956 Tesla crashes in which Autopilot was involved between January 2018 and August 2023.
Persons: Tesla, , FSD, Elon, Phil Koopman Organizations: National, Traffic Safety Administration, Service, regulator's, Carnegie Mellon University, NHTSA, Business Locations: California, Koopman
Nine out of 10 employees are 'excited' by the change, Garman said, but those who disagree are welcome to leave. AdvertisementThe majority of Amazon employees favor the company's new five-day return-to-office policy, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has told staff during an all-hands meeting. Garman addressed the RTO policy introduced by Amazon in September, which has faced strong pushback from some employees. It is Garman's first official response to Amazon's new RTO policy and comes after the company received backlash from some employees. Related storiesDuring the all-hands meeting, Garman said employees will not always need to be in the office.
Persons: Matt Garman, Garman, , we're, Andy Jassy's Organizations: Business, Service, Amazon, Web, AWS
Klarna is assembling a team to build a stock-trading tool to compete with Robinhood, according to an internal message seen by BI. AdvertisementSwedish fintech firm Klarna is hiring a team to build a product that would compete with Robinhood's trading platform by letting customers buy and sell stocks through its app. "Our mission is to obliterate the barriers to consumer investing and empower every Klarna user to build their financial future in a single place - the Klarna App," the internal message said. Lombaard said the company is exploring the possibility of "offering customers the opportunity to buy and sell stocks" and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, in the Klarna app. Related storiesA spokesperson for Klarna told BI: "Klarna continuously explores new product concepts to serve our customers.
Persons: Klarna, , Ludo Lombaard, Lombaard, Uber, Jyoti Mann Organizations: BI, Service, Business, Apple, Adidas, Klarna, Bloomberg Locations: Swedish, Europe, jyotimann
Marc Benioff criticized Microsoft's Copilot again, calling it "disappointing" and inaccurate. The Salesforce CEO slammed Microsoft's AI assistant in an X post, saying, "It just doesn't work." AdvertisementMarc Benioff has criticized Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, for the second time in as many months. The Salesforce chief called Copilot "disappointing" in a post on X. Salesforce has launched its own AI assistant called Einstein Copilot. On both occasions, Benioff compared Microsoft's Copilot to Clippy — the discontinued animated paperclip that offered suggestions in applications including Word.
Persons: Marc Benioff, Microsoft's Copilot, Microsoft's, , Copilot, Salesforce, Einstein, Clippy, Benioff, Gartner, Microsoft didn't Organizations: Service, Gartner, Microsoft, Business
In cities where those companies operate, drivers are already at risk of losing earnings or seeing an impact on their income. I think drivers in Austin and Atlanta will be in a similar position next year as Waymo has plans to launch there, too. AdvertisementEven though I'm driving for Uber and Lyft full-time, it was never meant to be a full-time gig. One of the main reasons I'm an Uber and Lyft driver is to be debt-free. I think Uber wants to be the central hub for all transportation, even if that means it eventually replaces human drivers entirely.
Persons: Tesla's, Tristan Thomas, Thomas, , Tesla, Elon Musk, I'm, Waymo, Uber, Lyft, there's, I've, Elon Organizations: Business, Service, Drivers Locations: Cruise, San Francisco , Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, Atlanta
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told the Financial Times that competing with Elon Musk is not easy. He said he would "love" to get Tesla's robotaxis on the Uber platform when it's ready to roll out. AdvertisementUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says going head-to-head with Elon Musk can be tough — so he's open to partnering with him. "Obviously, competing with Elon Musk is no easy matter, and we take nothing for granted; we really want to partner with the autonomous industry," he told the FT in an interview that aired Tuesday. Uber and Tesla didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.
Persons: Dara Khosrowshahi, Elon Musk, , Khosrowshahi, Tesla, Uber, Musk, hasn't Organizations: Financial Times, Elon, Service, Tesla, Warner Bros, Business Locations: Burbank , California
Nvidia's Jensen Huang praised Elon Musk for building a supercomputer cluster in "19 days." AdvertisementNvidia chief Jensen Huang has praised Elon Musk after his startup xAI built a supercomputer in 19 days, an effort that he said would take others years. xAI built its supercomputer, called Colossus, from a cluster of 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. In an interview with Jordan Peterson on X in June, Musk said it took 19 days to get Colossus from hardware installation to beginning training. Nvidia and Elon Musk didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.
Persons: Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Huang, , Jensen Huang, Elon, Musk, Jordan Peterson, X, xAI, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk didn't Organizations: Nvidia, Service, Oracle, Elon, Business Locations: Memphis, Grok, Nobu, Palo Alto
Landau used to be pro-office but says remote working has helped his employees' work-life balance. AdvertisementThe world is my oyster for recruitmentAs the company grew, I became increasingly enamored with remote work. Most Park My Fleet employees are US-based, but we have tech teams in Costa Rica and Israel. I don't think there's anything wrong with in-person office work; it makes sense in certain environments. As an employee who joined a company as a remote worker, it would feel like a bait-and-switch move if the CEO then decided to change the remote work policy.
Persons: Mike Landau, Landau, , I've, we've, RTO, that's Organizations: BI, Service, Business Locations: Costa Rica, Israel, Europe
Geoffrey Hinton and John J. Hopfield have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. The pair won for their inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. AdvertisementGeoffrey Hinton, often dubbed the "Godfather of AI," and John J. Hopfield have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that it had recognized Hinton and Hopfield "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks." The computer scientist has been widely regarded as a pioneer of machine learning.
Persons: Geoffrey Hinton, John J, Hopfield, , Hinton, Foundation didn't Organizations: Service, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Big Tech, British, Google, University of Toronto, Foundation, Business Locations: Hinton, Canadian
Here's where OpenAI's 11 cofounders are now
  + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Most of OpenAI's cofounders have left the startup, with some going to rivals. Here's where all 11 of its cofounders are now and how many remain at the $157 billion company. Here's where all of the 11 cofounders are now. According to her LinkedIn profile, she used to work at Facebook as an AI research engineer before joining Stripe as a software engineer in 2016. OpenAI and none of its 11 cofounders immediately responded to Business Insider's requests for comment, made outside normal working hours.
Persons: it's, Sam Altman, , OpenAI, Mira Murati, Barret Zoph, Bob McGrew, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Anthropic, Jason Redmond, Altman, John Schulman Schulman, OpenAI's, Jan Leike, Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba Zaremba, Zaremba, Ekon, Musk, Ilya Sutskever Ilya Sutskever, JACK GUEZ, Getty Sutskever, Sustkever, Sustskever, Greg Brockman Brockman, he's, Kingma, Andrej Karpathy Andrej Karpathy, Karpathy, Vicki Cheung Cheung, Elon, Elon Musk, ALAIN JOCARD, Brockman, cofounding OpenAI, Pamela Vagata Vagata, Trevor Blackwell Blackwell, cofounders Organizations: Here's, Service, Getty, OpenAI's Superalignment, OpenAI, Inc, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Tesla, San Francisco Chronicle, Hearst Newspapers, Getty Images Research, Eureka Labs, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Facebook Locations: AFP, OpenAI, cofounding, Pebblebed
Andy Jassy is thinking long-termThe recent return-to-office mandate requiring employees to work from the office five days a week is tricky. I think Jassy is thinking long-term, which is one of the core features of Amazon's leadership principles: long-term thinking. The third leadership principle I think Jassy is enforcing is frugality. The principle says that leaders work daily to create a safer, more productive, higher-performing, and diverse work environment. I think Jassy looks at this and says, "That is what I am doing."
Persons: John Rossman, Rossman, , it's, Andy Jassy, they'd, Andy Jassy's, Jeff Bezos, Jassy Organizations: Amazon, Service Locations: America
Dell is mandating all global sales workers return to the office five days a week from Monday. AdvertisementDell has issued a return-to-office mandate calling for all of its sales workers to work from the office five days a week. The tech giant sent a memo to its entire global sales team on Thursday, requiring them to be in the office all week from Monday. Field sellers who can't go into a Dell office should prioritize time spent in person with customers and partners. Bill ScannellPresident, Global Sales & Customer OperationsJohn ByrnePresident, Sales, Global Regions, Dell Tech SelectImplementation will be subject to local laws, regulations and practices, including works council and employee representative consultation where applicable.
Persons: , Dell, Bill Scannell, John Byrne, Byrne, Vivek Mohindra, Mohindra, Andy Jassy, we're, Let's, John, Polly Thompson Organizations: Dell, Service, Dell Tech, Business, Global, Dell Technologies, Global Regions
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