Instacart lays off 250 employees, or 7% of its workforce, to ‘reshape’ company

by Cavil Consult Aggregator | Feb 14, 2024 | Social Media Tips

[ad_1] Grocery-delivery giant Instacart announced today that it’s laying off around 250 employees, or roughly 7% of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring. Instacart CEO Fidji Simo said in a letter to investors that the layoffs will allow the company to...

Airbnb is making progress to get rid of those hated cleaning fees

by Cavil Consult Aggregator | Feb 14, 2024 | Social Media Tips

[ad_1] Airbnb is slowly killing the cleaning fee as it aims for more transparent pricing. Since early last year, when the company started showing guests all-inclusive pricing when booking a property, almost 300,000 listings have removed or lowered cleaning fees,...

Andrej Karpathy is leaving OpenAI again — but he says there was no drama

by Cavil Consult Aggregator | Feb 14, 2024 | Social Media Tips

[ad_1] Researcher Andrej Karpathy confirmed today that he is leaving OpenAI for the second time to work on personal projects. He said in a post on X that the decision is not because of an event, issue, or drama. “Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday. First of all...

Intuitive Machines to take its shot at reaching the moon with first private lunar lander

by Cavil Consult Aggregator | Feb 14, 2024 | Social Media Tips

[ad_1] Intuitive Machines is looking to succeed where past ventures have failed with its inaugural lunar lander mission, which would mark the first time a private company has landed a spacecraft on the moon — ever. The mission is poised to lift off on a SpaceX rocket...

Foundry Group is shutting down and won’t raise another fund

by Cavil Consult Aggregator | Feb 14, 2024 | Social Media Tips

[ad_1] Foundry Group, an 18-year-old venture firm with nearly $3.5 billion in assets under management, has quietly decided to shut down and not raise any more funds. The move was unexpected considering that the firm announced a $500 million fund last year. Boulder,...

Airbnb plans to use AI, including its GamePlanner acquisition, to create the ‘ultimate concierge’

by Cavil Consult Aggregator | Feb 13, 2024 | Social Media Tips

[ad_1] In November, Airbnb acquired a stealth AI firm launched by Siri’s co-founder, called GamePlanner.AI. The deal valued the secretive startup at around $200 million, according to reports. Though the hosting company didn’t telegraph its plans for GamePlanner at the...