Tech
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‘He wanted to be CEO’: Early OpenAI VC Vinod Khosla says Elon Musk’s bid for control led to the Sam Altman feud and his major investment
When Vinod Khosla sat down with Fortune‘s Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell in early March, he offered some key context for one of the most consequential tech trials in American history: Musk vs. Altman. “He wanted to be CEO,” Khosla said of Elon Musk on the Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast. He explained the context around
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Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams last year, 8 times more than in 2020. Facebook alone cost users more than texts and emails combined
The cardinal rule of the Internet is that if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Unfortunately, some still haven’t learned that lesson—and it clearly hasn’t stopped some of us from falling into traps, especially on social media. Nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam in 2025 said
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Exclusive: AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round
Paddy Lambros spent two and a half years advising roughly 100 European startups on hiring at the London-based venture capital firm Atomico. During that time, he kept coming back to the same observation: nearly every business problem at a young company could be traced to a hiring decision. “It was either not having the right
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I used Claude’s new Dispatch feature for a month. Here’s everything I was able to do
One of the better aspects of being a journalist—aside from the long hours, the bitter emails and Slack messages, and the wording and rewording of a simple phrase to ensure it reads just right—is the ability to spend time tinkering with things. For the past month, I’ve been tinkering with Dispatch, a new feature from
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Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian town where OpenAI failed to alert police about a mass shooter
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote a letter publicly apologizing to residents of the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge after the company failed to alert local authorities about a person who allegedly killed eight people in the town earlier this year. On Feb. 10, an 18-year-old suspect, Jesse Van Rootselaar, allegedly killed her mother and stepbrother
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‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
The recent tech layoffs would initially appear to indicate the great labor shift from human workers to AI may already be happening. Meta announced last week in a memo that it plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, about 8,000 employees, as well as scrap plans to hire for 6,000 open positions. It’s part
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Reed Hastings says AI will drive a return back to humanities: ‘I’d be doubling down on emotional skills’
Reed Hastings, the cofounder, former CEO, and now chairman of the board at Netflix, studied AI and computer science back in the 1980s. Decades later, he thinks today’s AI revolution could bring back an emphasis on the humanities as a field of study. After graduating with a degree in Math from Maine’s Bowdoin College, Hastings
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI won’t kill entry-level jobs. He’s hiring 1,000 new grads to prove it
The big question in corporate America today is to what extent AI will upend the entry-level white collar workforce. Some have warned a full obliteration of the entry-level workforce; others say those fears are overblown. And if the likes of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are right, we can see half of all those positions eliminated
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Why the key to American drone dominance lies with blockchain
The drone threat is no longer confined to distant battlefields. It is coming to American soil, and the targets are no longer necessarily military targets. Critical infrastructure – airports, power plants, and major public events, as well as military bases – are all prime targets for anyone looking to unleash chaos and undermine national security.
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More than 90,000 tech workers have been laid off this year. But here’s why companies like Microsoft are offering voluntary buyouts instead
It’s been a tough year for tech workers. Some 92,000 employees have been laid off from tech companies as they look to cut overheadcosts and invest heavily in AI. Meta announced on Thursday that it plans to cut 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, to improve efficiency and offset its AI spending. The social