Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down from the top leadership role after nearly three decades, just as the company moves toward robotaxis and humanoid robots. Shashua will remain CEO until Mobileye hires a replacement, according to a regulatory filing Thursday. Mobileye began manufacturing computer vision chips based on Shashua’s academic research
The co-founder of Hugging Face, a technology startup that was hacked after some of OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went corruptHe said Thursday that the incident is “a wake-up call” for the industry. Thomas Wolf told the BBC’s Newsday radio program that “this will be one of the most common types of cyberattacks
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board of directors following the investment. Bain Capital, Fifth Wall and others participated in the round. Perhaps most notably, Uber also joined the funding round, reconnecting Kalanick with the company he founded,
Lauren Neustadter and Reese Witherspoon are having a big summer, with back-to-back high-profile releases: the July debut of the “Legally Blonde” prequel series “Elle” on Amazon’s Prime Video and the Anya Taylor-Joy-directed action miniseries “Lucky” on Apple TV. Both shows, which premiered just two weeks apart, are produced by Witherspoon’s media company, Hello Sunshine, which
Gaming company Lil Snack has tapped Scopely and Supercell alum Bill Kang as its new chief operating officer. Since launching three years ago, Lil Snack now operates more than 20 games daily on platforms including Netflix and has seen engagement grow 500% year over year, surpassing hundreds of millions of streams. Kang joins the company
For years, Synthesia’s pitch was to use AI to help companies create interactive training videos, in minutes, for a fraction of the cost typically associated with developing corporate educational materials. The startup’s newest product is making a different bet: that the real moat of enterprise AI is not just generating content, but proving that it