Welcome back to week in review! We have a lot of news for you this week: there were CEO Shake-ups at Instacart and 11X; The online series has returned – kind of; Threads get videos; And much more. Let’s go to it!
Great movement: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo will become the General Director of Openai for applicationsThe company said this week. Simo is already on the Openai Board. She will be tasked with helping Openai in scaling “traditional” companies, Director General Sam Altman said, but he did not give details about what that means.
Speaking of Openai: The company decided that Nonprofit division will maintain control Over its non -profit organization after initially announcing that it was planning to convert to a non -profit organization. Openai says it made the decision “after hearing civic leaders and engage in a building dialogue with the offices of the Attorney General of Delaware and the Attorney General of California.”
And speaking of Director General: 11x Director General Hasan Sukkar announced that He is retiring and relocating into a “non-accomplished president” position. In March, Techcrunch reported that 11X showed on its website client logo of companies that were not active customers, and one of those companies threatened to process the matter.
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Trademark friction: Tesla wants to trade the terms “cybercab” and “robotaxi” but was Denied by the US patent and brand office Because the terms are too generic. Tesla has three months to register an answer, or the office will leave the application.
No thank you: Speaking on stage at Stripe’s annual Sessions Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, Director General of Meta, presented his plans automate the entire advertising industry with a black box, an end-to-end AI-ad tool. As Maxwell Zeff reports, “It is an open question of what AI -Ad -testing will do to the user -point platforms, considering that they are already full of generative AI -slope.”
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And talking about ads: Meta announced at the New Front Conference that it is Testing video ads in threads. The update follows Meta’s recent announcement that threads are now reaching more than 350 million monthly users.
Yes, please! I’m not too wise in the kitchen, so the new from posha A robot that cooks your meals for you Sounds like a dream come true. You scroll through a list of recipes, choose the one you want, add the appropriate sums of the requested ingredients, and the machine makes the meal from there.
We came back, baby: Prior to the rise of a vertical video, scripted online series on YouTube were successful enough to pour into television programs such as “Wide City”, “Unsurprising” and “Letterkenny.” Now the online series is backBut it lives on a new platform: Tiktok.
Goodbye to Real: Bill Gates said on Thursday that the Gates Foundation will be just 20 years old exhaust their coffers and venture operations. He pledged to donate 99% of his fortune, which is worth about $ 107 billion today.
Analysis
What follows for Openai: Openai’s new restructuring plan could satisfy regulators and investors who have invested a lot in the company in Esperanto future profits. But It may also reject Openai’s future ambitionsespecially about a possible ship.
