The AI talent wars don’t let up, and neither does Anthropic’s wave of big-name hiring. The artificial intelligence startup has hired Tom Blomfield, co-founder of British fintech company Monzo and one of the biggest names in UK tech. Blomfield said Monday that he will take a leave of absence from Y Combinator, where he has
At Kalshi, most employees report directly to both founders of the largest US prediction market in what CEO Tarek Mansour described as a deliberately “unusual” management structure. Speaking on a recent episode of Sequoia Capital’s “Long Strange Trip,” Mansour said he and his co-founder Luana Lopes Lara have about 150 direct reports with little traditional
Open source AI is on the rise, according to Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. The company has become something of a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI creators can share and download open models and datasets, which are now used by about half of Fortune 500 companies. Delangue has seen the same
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, has been accused of a practice known as “cookie-cutter stuffing,” which may have helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it didn’t actually generate, according to a Bloomberg investigation. The report sparked controversy and led to Phia’s suspension from
Several companies, betting on various architectural approaches, are trying to build the first commercially viable quantum computer capable of significantly outperforming current systems. Oratomic, which entered the race earlier this year with the goal of developing the first utility-scale quantum computer by the end of the decade, said this week that it has raised $300
AI training startup Mercor is reportedly in talks to raise a round at a valuation of $20 billion, sources told Bloomberg. That would be a big jump from its last holding in October, when it raised a $350 million Series C at a $10 billion valuation. Talks for this latest round are in the early