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A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal : A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires   —  Getting an offer from Bending Spoons, which owns AOL, has become harder than getting into Harvard from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QSTJBGy via IFTTT
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Current AI market dynamics point to frontier models becoming commodity infrastructure as the token crunch eases, with value shifting to products built on top (Benedict Evans)

Benedict Evans : Current AI market dynamics point to frontier models becoming commodity infrastructure as the token crunch eases, with value shifting to products built on top   —  There are only two things you can say with certainty about token prices: we're in a supply crunch, and this is unstable. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/F2Y8rjp via IFTTT

Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress, not smartphone use, is the main driver of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt's thesis (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic : Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress, not smartphone use, is the main driver of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt's thesis   —  An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/6jIhva2 via IFTTT

Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce   —  If their lawsuit is successful, that ChatGPT device may be no more...  We all know the old saying “don't poke the bear.” from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ko8eqPY via IFTTT

The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

Karen Freifeld / Reuters : The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license   —  The U.S. Department of Commerce loosened export controls on the United Arab Emirates on Friday, making it easier to export military items … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/hZlndgP via IFTTT

Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022   —  A years-long lawsuit between the college-focused social app Fizz and rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices has taken an interesting turn. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/mo2zxPU via IFTTT

Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20B valuation, less than a year after raising money at a $10B valuation (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20B valuation, less than a year after raising money at a $10B valuation   —  Mercor, a startup that helps improve artificial intelligence models with rich specialized data, is discussing raising new funds … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/9wABhO2 via IFTTT