Lamini, a Palo Alto-based startup building a platform to help enterprises deploy generative AI tech, has raised $ 25 million from investors including Stanford computer science professor Andrew Ng. Lamini, co-founded several years ago by Sharon Zhou and Greg Diamos, has an interesting sales pitch. Many generative AI platforms are far too general-purpose, Zhou and […]
HYBE CEO’s Full Statement To The Company’s Workers Released
Amidst the chaos that HYBE is currently facing due to its feud with ADOR CEO Min Hee Jin, HYBE’s CEO Park Ji Won has taken to a company-wide address. He speaks to all the workers of HYBE in the address, which was later posted on Blind, the anonymous but verified forum for office workers. A […]
Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would
When I started working from home in the late 1980s as a freelance technical writer, I was clearly an outlier. Even contractors mostly went into the office in those days. Over time, though, that slowly changed, and the pandemic — along with generationally shifting views on work-life balance — accelerated worker sentiment away from going […]
Canoo reveals it paid for CEO’s jet, AT&T leaks records and X announces NSFW plans
Heya, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the noteworthy happenings in tech over the past several days (and change). Famed startup accelerator Y Combinator had its Demo Days, and the venture desk took it all in with an appropriately skeptical eye. You can read their day one and day two coverage, […]
Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO’s private jet in 2023
Tucked inside Canoo’s 2023 earnings report is a nugget regarding the use of CEO Tony Aquila’s private jet — just one of many expenses that illustrates the gap between spending and revenue at the EV startup. Canoo posted Monday its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings for 2023 in a regulatory filing that shows a company burning […]