“I am super confused how I got terminated. I still think this is an error.” “It is an engineering paradise, as everything is reinvented again here.” Two starkly different views of life at Meta—the first from a recently laid-off employee, the second from a Meta employee on Blind (where several workers have lamented that layoffs…
AI is redefining performance standards in Big Tech
As tech giants use AI to automate traditional coding tasks, companies are simultaneously cutting lower-performing roles while competing for AI talent—creating a two-track job market where AI expertise increasingly defines career prospects. During a recent interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dished on the company’s plans for its continued push into…
Sensor data, reimagined: When 90% less data can fuel 100x gains in efficiency in AI projects
For decades, the Nyquist-Shannon theorem—a foundational principle of signal processing—dictated that fully sampling a signal at or above twice its highest frequency was essential for capturing critical information. Now, a Pennsylvania startup called Lightscline suggests we may be entering a “post-Nyquist era.” According to a recent Nature Scientific Reports paper, the company’s neural-network-based software, inspired…
Amazon, Apple and NVIDIA compete for GPU talent with salaries of $300k or more
Tech giants are assembling AI supercomputers of unprecedented scale. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Elon Musk’s xAI are building clusters boasting 100,000 or more H100 GPUs, with xAI planning to double its Colossus system to 200,000 GPUs — including the upcoming H200 model. To put this in perspective, OpenAI reportedly trained GPT-4 using roughly 25,000 A100…
R&D Market Pulse: NVIDIA hits $37.5B in revenue while UK regulators tap brakes on AI startup investment oversight
In a move signaling a more relaxed regulatory approach to the booming AI sector, UK regulators announced they would not investigate Google’s $2 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic. The move mirrors a similar decision regarding Amazon’s earlier $4 billion stake. This green light comes as Amazon doubles, bringing its total investment in Anthropic to…
Meta restructures Reality Labs, unveils new AI models
Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, is once again making headlines with a significant restructuring of its Reality Labs division. The division, charged with bringing CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision to life, will now be split into two distinct units: “Wearables” and “Metaverse.” This strategic shift comes amidst a series of workforce reductions…