Silicon Valley
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 day agoVideo: The Resistance to New Technologies
Public skepticism towards A.I. technologies stems from a lack of control and fear of job loss.
Musk holds approximately 42% of SpaceX's equity but controls roughly 79% of its votes through super-voting shares that carry disproportionately higher voting rights per share.
Polymarket is reportedly in advanced talks to raise approximately $400 million in new funding at a post-money valuation of roughly $15 billion, according to a report published by The Information. The round has not been finalized, meaning terms could still change.
They called out about half a dozen particular instances of what they considered to be bullshit technology. We were too busy laughing sympathetically to whip out a laptop to make notes, but as best as we can recall the sequence, they were: Containers Kubernetes The "Cloud" Anything at all "as a Service" The Blockchain - anything, everything, based on it And now, arguably the biggest and worst of all, "generative AI"