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☆ Mark Zuckerberg: Early-career engineers tend to perform better when they're in person 'at least 3 days a week'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Early-career engineers tend to do better when they show up in person, Mark Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg broached the idea of in-person work in a note announcing new layoffs of 10,000 employees. Elon Musk also ended remote work at Twitter when he took over at the social media platform last year. Billionaire Thomas Siebel, the CEO of software company C3.ai, told Insider this week about his company's own in-office culture, taking a dig at remote work. "If you want to work from home, like four days of work in your pajamas, go to work for Facebook," he said.

That's the question posed by certain members of the Silicon Valley elite who are attributing layoffs to a boom-time phenomenon: over-hiring and "fake" work. A particular view of 'work'This concept of fake work is rooted, at least partly, in political disagreement. Several of the tech figures pushing these ideas lean Republican, in contrast to the left-leaning tech workers they're lambasting. He and others pushing a grind culture are motivated, as tech employees commenting on the workplace app Blind noted. "I think it's a false narrative to say many people do fake work, especially when companies already deploy workplace monitoring tools."

☆ California Gov. Gavin Newsom failed to publicly disclose his SVB ties while lobbying for a bailout
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gavin Newsom reportedly had substantial personal ties to Silicon Valley Bank. Newsom has not discussed his personal ties to SVB publicly. It is unclear whether he disclosed them to the White House or Treasury during his contacts with the administration over the weekend. Click did not respond to detailed questions about the Intercept's reporting on Newsom's SVB ties. Spokespeople for the White House and California Partners Project did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment.

☆ A laid-off Meta worker says the company paid her to not work: They were 'hoarding us like Pokémon cards'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An ex-Meta worker said she was part of a group that didn't have work to do when hired. Britney Levy told Insider some people were frustrated and felt Meta was stalling their careers. In the video that has since garnered over 870,000 views, Levy said she felt Meta was hiring people so other companies couldn't have them. "They were just kind of like hoarding us like Pokémon cards," she said in the video. "People who were incredibly well qualified and had turned down amazing opportunities said they felt Meta was intentionally stalling their career.

☆ The unintended consequences of remote work
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

While remote work offers flexibility, it often comes at the cost of maintaining a work-life balance. Remote work has also made it possible to hire anyone anywhere, which CEOs and hiring managers are starting to realize. Tech companies are offshoring jobs, due to America's broken immigration system, and remote work is making it easier. American tech companies are offshoring jobs, but it isn't all because of remote work. He says remote work led to all of this in the first place.

☆ Venture capitalists 'almost took the whole system down' by having startups stow all their cash at Silicon Valley Bank, says one tech billionaire CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tom Siebel, the billionaire CEO of C3.ai, offered a scathing post-mortem of the Silicon Valley Bank fallout. Top VCs like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen let startups entrust their finances to a "C minus bank," he said. Federal regulators have said they would protect all customers with deposits at Silicon Valley Bank. Since regulators closed down Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, the 40-year-old institution whose popularity in the startup world shot up in more recent years has been under the control of the Financial Deposit Insurance Corporation. A representative for the FDIC declined to comment, and representatives for Silicon Valley Bank did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment on Monday evening.

☆ Billionaire tech CEO says Meta and Google over-hired so much they didn't have enough work for employees: 'They really were doing nothing'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Grace Kay | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

C3.ai's CEO said Google and Meta over-hired employees and didn't have enough work for them to do. Thomas Siebel joked that if you want to work remote "in your pajamas," you should work at Facebook. "If you want to work from home, like four days of work in your pajamas, go to work for Facebook." Siebel is far from the first executive to express concern that tech workers aren't doing enough work. Last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that remote work has spurred "productivity paranoia" among managers.

☆ C3.ai CEO says A.I. has become king
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailC3.ai CEO says A.I. has become kingTom Siebel, C3.ai CEO, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to discuss his company, the future of AI and the company's strong earnings announcement.

☆ Ex-producer Harvey Weinstein faces sentencing for Los Angeles rape conviction
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LOS ANGELES, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein, the onetime Hollywood titan who came to epitomize a culture of pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men that ignited the #MeToo movement, is to be sentenced on Thursday for the 2013 rape of an actress in Los Angeles. Whatever sentence is pronounced should be served once the former movie producer and Miramax co-founder has completed the 23-year sentence imposed for a sexual misconduct conviction in New York, prosecutors argued in their sentencing memorandum. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench declared a mistrial on the deadlocked charges. The producer of "Pulp Fiction" and "Shakespeare in Love" was convicted of sexual misconduct in New York in February 2020, and extradited from New York to a Los Angeles prison in July 2021. In New York, Weinstein is appealing his conviction and prison sentence.

☆ A 17-year-old Seattle high schooler is tracking more than 150 private jets' emissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Seattle teenager Akash Shendure runs Climate Jets, a website that tracks emissions of private jets. Using Sweeney's Ground Control Registration Database — which was developed to famously track Elon Musk's private jet — Shendure identifies and compiles carbon emissions from the private jets of more than 150 wealthy Americans and their families. Shendure is the latest to publicly keep tabs on the expenditure of private jets, following on the heels of Sweeney, now 20, who recently launched his own public-jet tracking database. Sweeney began tracking Musk's private jet in 2020 and created the Twitter account @ElonJet to share his findings, gaining thousands of followers and even job offers. "I don't mean any harm and that's never the intended purpose of the accounts," Sweeney told Insider in December 2022.

☆ Kimberly Guilfoyle says her ex-husband Gavin Newsom will run for president in 2024 because he has 'always wanted' to be POTUS
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kimberly Guilfoyle says she thinks Gavin Newsom will run for president in 2024. Gavin Newsom, will run for president in 2024. I know he's going to run for president," Guilfoyle said. "I think you're going to see Gavin Newsom versus Donald J. Trump, running against each other for president," Guilfoyle predicted. The couple filed for divorce in 2005 after Guilfoyle moved to New York City, per the San Francisco Chronicle.

☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with C3.ai CEO Thomas Siebel
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with C3.ai CEO Thomas SiebelThomas Siebel, C3.ai CEO, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss ChatGPT and what he sees as the future of artificial intelligence.

☆ The Googles and the Microsofts look like partners to us, says C3.ai CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThe Googles and the Microsofts look like partners to us, says C3.ai CEOTom Siebel, C3.ai CEO, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss ChatGPT and what he sees as the future of artificial intelligence.

☆ AI is the latest Wall Street craze. Is it also the next bubble?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

All of this AI news has helped boost shares of Baidu (BIDU), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google owner Alphabet (GOOGL) this year. Shares of the artificial intelligence software company have more than doubled this year, to about $26. SoundHound AI, which makes speech- and other audio-recognition software, has also seen its stock more than double this year. The fact that many of the world’s largest tech companies are embracing artificial intelligence is evidence of that. “We believe tech companies and tech equities will continue to face headwinds, as long as the Fed keeps its foot on the brake,” Siebel said in December.

☆ C3.ai hopes to fundamentally change the human computer interaction model with AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailC3.ai hopes to fundamentally change the human computer interaction model with AITom Siebel, C3.ai CEO, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss Google's latest tool for businesses using AI, natural language processing with generative AI and enterprise applications developing generative AI capabilities.

LOS ANGELES — Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault but acquitted of one count of sexual battery after a trial in Los Angeles, nearly three years after the disgraced movie mogul was convicted at a watershed sex crimes trial in New York City. In the Los Angeles trial, jurors found Weinstein guilty of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by foreign object. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón thanked the jurors for their service and hailed the accusers who came forward. In opening arguments, Los Angeles prosecutors portrayed Weinstein as a relentless sexual predator who lorded his status as “the most powerful man in Hollywood” over the women he abused. Daniel Arkin reported from New York, Diana Dasrath reported from Los Angeles.

☆ C3.ai CEO on business model: Consumption-based pricing has become the cloud standard
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailC3.ai CEO on business model: Consumption-based pricing has become the cloud standardThomas Siebel, C3.ai CEO, joins 'TechCheck' to discuss the company's transition to a consumption-based pricing model from subscription-based, customers attitude towards C3's new pricing and whether the company cares about smaller contract sizes.

CNN —Both the defense and prosecution in the Los Angeles sexual assault trial against former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein concluded closing arguments Thursday, bringing the weekslong trial one step closer to jury deliberations. A rebuttal from prosecutors to the defense attorney’s closing remarks is expected to begin Friday morning. Jurors heard from about 50 witnesses, including four accusers who were identified in court as Jane Does due to the nature of their allegations. Those alleged incidents are not being charged as part of this case because they happened outside of Los Angeles County. Midway through the trial, four of the original 11 charges against Weinstein tied to a fifth Jane Doe were dropped without explanation.

☆ Harvey Weinstein trial: Closing arguments slated to begin in 2nd rape trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Cheri Mossburg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Los Angeles CNN —Closing arguments are expected Wednesday in the Los Angeles sexual assault trial against former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who faces two counts of forcible rape and five counts of sexual assault involving four women – a model, a dancer, a massage therapist and a producer. Those alleged incidents are not being charged as part of this case because they happened outside of Los Angeles County. Siebel Newsom described an hours-long “cat-and-mouse period” that preceded her assault. “What you’re doing today is exactly what he did to me,” Siebel Newsom said, accusing defense lawyer Mark Werksman of “mental jujitsu” and verbal manipulation. Midway through the trial, four of the original 11 charges against Weinstein tied to a fifth Jane Doe were dropped without explanation.

Harvey Weinstein will not take the stand at his sex crimes trial in Los Angeles, where he is charged with seven counts of rape and sexual assault, his lawyer said Monday. Los Angeles prosecutors rested their case before the Thanksgiving break, following nearly four weeks of testimony from 44 witnesses. The trial in Los Angeles took on higher stakes for prosecutors after the New York State Court of Appeals agreed in August to allow Weinstein to appeal his conviction there. If it is overturned, his fate would hinge on the outcome of his Los Angeles trial. The charges against Weinstein in Los Angeles are two counts of rape and five other sexual assault counts.

He is now on trial in Los Angeles Superior Court and had been facing 11 charges of rape and sexual assault. Werksman also asked Siebel Newsom to explain "dozens" of emails she sent to Weinstein in the years following her encounter. In one of the emails, Siebel Newsom thanked Weinstein for inviting her and her husband to a pre-Oscars party. Siebel Newsom responded that she was afraid of Weinstein and felt a need to be nice to him. He was extradited from New York to a Los Angeles prison in July 2021.

☆ Jennifer Siebel Newsom, actor married to California governor, breaks down in tears at Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Daniel Arkin | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and actor who is married to California Gov. I was a little hesitant,” Siebel Newsom testified. “Because you don’t say no to Harvey Weinstein,” Siebel Newsom said. "I’m trembling, I’m like a rock, I’m frigid," Siebel Newsom testified through sobs. If it is overturned, his fate would hinge on the outcome of his Los Angeles trial.

When she arrived, Weinstein had no interest in discussing her projects, Siebel Newsom said. Siebel Newsom said Weinstein got her onto a bed, though she cannot recall if he carried or dragged her there. Siebel Newsom's attorney confirmed in October that Siebel Newsom would testify in the case. At the time of the meeting with Siebel Newsom, she had not met her future husband, current California Gov. In cross-examination, Weinstein attorney Mark Werksman questioned Siebel Newsom about why her husband had accepted campaign donations from the producer.

☆ These are the women expected to testify against Harvey Weinstein at his second sexual assault trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Jane Doe 1 was a model and actress who was married, had three children and was living in Italy in 2013. Jane Doe 1 then went to the police in October 2017 because she promised her daughter she would, she testified. Jane Doe 2Weinstein is charged with sexual battery by restraint of Jane Doe 2 on or about February 19, 2013, in Los Angeles County. Jane Doe 3Weinstein is charged with sexual battery by restraint of Jane Doe 3 on or about May 11, 2010. He said that Jane Doe 3 gave him four additional massages after the alleged assault.

LOS ANGELES, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Opening arguments are set for Monday in the Los Angeles rape trial of Harvey Weinstein, the once-powerful Hollywood producer who became the face of #MeToo allegations five years ago. In Los Angeles, he is facing 11 charges of rape and sexual assault involving five women in the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles area between 2004 and 2013. Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker, actor and wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, is one of Weinstein's accusers in the California case. Now in declining health, he was seated in a wheelchair during jury selection in Los Angeles Superior Court. He could face up to 140 years in prison if convicted on all 11 of the charges in Los Angeles.

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