Gizmodo: Meta Reportedly Laying Off Hundreds From Its AI Team. “The cuts will reportedly primarily hit Meta’s FAIR AI research lab, which was the company’s long-standing AI research unit, as well as the company’s product-related AI teams and its AI infrastructure units.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/23/gizmodo-meta-reportedly-laying-off-hundreds-from-its-ai-team/

Sur #PublicSénat à l'instant : "Capitalisme américain : Qui veut gagner des milliards ?"

https://television.telerama.fr/tele/documentaire/qui-veut-gagner-des-milliards-1-13872915.php

Ça va parler #SiliconValey #GAFAM …

Bloomberg: Community Notes Can’t Save Social Media From Itself. “Eliminating the rewards for promoting misinformation would go much further than crowdsourcing to clean up social media. But in a social media world of growing incentives to make money in the viral casino, Community Notes is ultimately fighting a losing battle. This column seeks to fully examine how the people behind it are […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/19/bloomberg-community-notes-cant-save-social-media-from-itself/

Here’s what Silicon Valley won’t tell you:
true innovation doesn’t come from breaking the rules in a zero-sum game — 
it comes from breaking free of the #zerosum game entirely.

Build something small. Own it completely. Scale it thoughtfully.

That’s how you win without cheating.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-cant-win-in-tech-unless-you-cheat/

With apologies to the original poster. Who has dropped off the scroll.

The stupid red shiny car put me right off reading the link quickly enough.

Fucked up versions of success are mentioned but the concepts are great.

#opensource #techbros #siliconValey #success #steadystate

Silicon Valley's Secret Love Affair with the State

https://www.theindex.media/silicon-valleys-secret-love-affair-with-the-state/

Behind Silicon Valley's anti-government rhetoric lies a web of billion-dollar contracts, taxpayer-funded breakthroughs, and a partnership with the state too deep to deny

#SiliconValey