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Former Google chief scientist who left after 27 years, having joined in 1999 as the 30th employee.
Veeda AI raised $90 million three months after being founded, co-led by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures. The pitch: simulated reality is the infrastructure layer robotics is missing.
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A July 13 statement of eighty-eight words has collected close to 2,000 signatures and 17 Nobel laureates. The measurement work it implies has not been done inside a single company.
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One aggregated account puts every original xAI co-founder out the door by late March 2026, plus 80-odd researchers. Buyers signing multi-year AI commitments should price that.
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Dave Vellante argues HBM, advanced packaging, network fabric, power and site readiness stay tight until at least 2028. Price discovery gets pushed out with them.
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Gemini 3.5 Pro is two months past its promised June date with no explanation, Jeff Dean has left after 27 years, and OpenAI's valuation held flat at $852bn through a $7bn buyback.
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