Karen Weise

NEW: Dan Price used social media to bury his troubles, and harnessed his viral fame to enable a pattern of abuse in his personal life and hostile behavior at his company He resigned as CEO last night, after providing his statements to this story nytimes.com/2022/08/18/tec…

He wrote in the email, which was viewed by The New York Times, that it was an “absolutely fatal error in this moment to worry about things that can be fixed later." @nicoagrant and @KYWeise on the thinking inside Google and Microsoft amid the AI boom: nyti.ms/3KDGuae

“I just want to get the story right,” he would tell friends. wsj.com/articles/wsj-r…

At Microsoft's demo last week, the "new Bing" incorrectly summarized a Gap financial statement and provided wrong info on pet vacuums and Mexico City nightlife (@dkbrereton / DKB Blog) dkb.blog/p/bing-ai-cant… #a230213p17" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/230213/p17#a23…

A group of computer science researchers at @UChicago have designed a tool to protect artists from AI-powered art generators that learn from their art and mimic them. Artists under threat have also sued and raised funds for a lobbyist in D.C.: nytimes.com/2023/02/13/tec…

The worst SNL Coffee Talk "pls discuss" topic: what other Amazon earnings dorks out there noticed that the earnings release for the past two quarters lead with sales/income vs cash flow??

Quick bit from the Amazon earnings call w press: CFO Brian Olsavksy said that the ~18,000 layoffs are essentially over (i.e. everyone has been notified) and the severance costs are est $640M

Well hey, Andy Jassy making an appearance on the $AMZN earnings call

Our front page story on Russia's use of convict fighters in Ukraine, a watershed move not seen since WWII that undermines the core tenets of a justice system & risks greater violence at home. nytimes.com/2023/01/30/wor…

@DelRey @Recode @voxmedia Oh my, Jason. I am so sorry to hear this. I'll be rooting for you, and of course buying that book of yours.

1. Young Jason dreamed of being an NBA free agent but this is the closest I’m going to get: My time @recode is over thx to @voxmedia layoffs & I'm ready for something new. Have an idea for my next gig? Contact info in bio. For now I'll do some writing here jasondelrey.substack.com

#Amazon and #MIcrosoft layoffs is a big setback for Seattle, which is still struggling to recover from the pandemic's decimation of daily commuters: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @mattmday @NBuhayar

Kshama Sawant is not running for reelection to Seattle City Council

News: Washington Post editors discussed stories involving Jeff Bezos's interests while he was sitting in the news meeting, including one about AmazonSmile and the pending sale of the Washington Post Commanders. W/ @katie_robertson nytimes.com/2023/01/19/bus…

NEW: Official details on Amazon's layoffs today in there region, via WARN Act filing -- 448 people in Bellevue and 1,852 in Seattle.

Amazon just filed its WARN notification layoffs in the Seattle area, per the state: for 2300 employees notified their jobs were cut esd.wa.gov/about-employee…

And Microsoft's WARN notice in California

Microsoft's WARN notice for the day in Washington state was just posted

Rough Seattle morning: Microsoft announces 10,000 layoffs, and Amazon execs have emailed staff that some of its 18K layoffs are being notified today. Not all those layoffs are in Seattle of course, but these are two of the largest employers in the region nytimes.com/2023/01/18/bus…

Seattle runners, there is a GoFundMe now for the young man stabbed on the Ship Canal trail one morning two weeks ago while he was out for a run. Turns out he was a student athlete at SPU. gofundme.com/f/solomons-rec…

Some VCs and Microsoft employees have already seen GPT-4. It could be text only, like ChatGPT. Or it could include images. OpenAI has not decided which to release, @KYWeise and I report in our piece on Microsoft's return to the center of the tech universe: nytimes.com/2023/01/12/tec…