Entering into the world of venture capital has never been easy, especially as a first-time fund manager. But it’s especially daunting right now. According to PitchBook data, firms raising their fourth fund “or later” captured a whopping 88.2% of U.S. VC fundraising dollars through the first three quarters of this year, while first-time funds captured…
There’s a specific mantra drilled into government workers, military officers, and intelligence personnel during counterintelligence briefings: “If she’s a 10 and you’re a 5, she’s a spy!” Or, as the US Army’s Counterintelligence Command posted on Valentine’s Day: “It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out ‘10 + 5 = honeytrap.’” The very beautiful woman…
A key figure in Meta’s growth into a social media and tech industry powerhouse is leaving the company. Santosh Janardhan, the company’s longtime head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, will be stepping down, Meta told TechCrunch. He will be replaced by Dave Brown, who joined the company as vice president of infrastructure earlier this…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is already under investigation after having admitted to having an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese spy. Now the New York Times is reporting that Huang is also suspected of having another extramarital affair, with a direct report of his at the company — Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice…
It’s almost inconceivable that Nvidia would fire its rock star CEO. Yet here we are, on the precipice of this happening. Over at Kalshi, Jensen Huang’s odds of surviving the week are sitting at a lowly 30%. Even though he built one of the world’s most valuable — and, many would argue, dangerously powerful —…
Nvidia is reportedly planning to oust its co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who has led the company for the last 33 years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sources told the newspaper that the Nvidia board is meeting as soon as Wednesday to determine Huang’s future at the company. On Sunday, Huang admitted to having an…
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome 2, a DNA model that predicts variant effects in specific cell types. AlphaGenome 2 is a conditional sequence-to-function model. It reads 1 Mb of DNA plus a target cell state. Its predecessor averaged across bulk tissues. The new model resolves closely related cell types and adapts to unseen single-cell datasets…
Nvidia co-founder CEO Jensen Huang has never been as flashy or controversy-prone as AI leaders like OpenAI’s Sam Altman or SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk. Now, the 63-year-old industry kingpin has admitted that he cheated on his wife of 40 years in an affair that could have ramifications beyond Huang’s personal life and potentially impact national security….
Google has launched the Gemini Decisions API, powered by a new model, Gemini Decision 1 (gemini-decision-1). The Gemini Decisions API does not generate text. It scores up to 1,000 typed questions against one shared input and returns calibrated probabilities. For developers, this targets the small branching calls inside agents: routing, policy checks, tool selection and…
Avery has been writing fan fiction for about six years, now mainly focused on the gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry. Until last month, it all lived in one place—Archive of Our Own. Then, on October 29 the fan fiction behemoth went dark due to a “security incident.” Within days, Avery was alarmed to find her…
