Welcome back per week in review! We have a lot of news for you this week: there have been the Shake-up of the CEO in Instacart and 11x; The web series is back – type of; Threads is receiving video ads; And much more. We get there!
Great move: The CEO of Instacart Fidji Simo will become CEO of Openai for questions, said the company this week. Simo is already on the open scoreboard. He will have the task of helping Openi to downsize the “traditional” company functions, said CEO Sam Altman, but has not provided any detail on what it means.
Speaking of Openi: The company has decided that its non -profit division will keep control over its organization for profit after having initially announced that she had planned to convert into an organization for profit. Openai says that he made the decision “after listening to the civic leaders and engaged in a constructive dialogue with the offices of the prosecutor General of Delaware and the Prosecutor General of California”.
And speaking of the moves of the CEO: The 11x Hasan Sukkar CEO has announced that it is halving and is moving to a position of “non -executive president”. In March, Techcrunch reported that 11x had shown the customer logos of companies that were not active customers on his website and one of those companies was threatening to sue the issue.
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News
FROM THE BRAND: Tesla wants to mark the terms “Cybercab” and “Robotaxi”, but has been denied by the patent office and brands of the United States because the terms are too generic. Tesla has three months to submit an answer or the office will abandon the application.
No thank you: Speaking on the stage at the annual conference of Stripe sessions in San Francisco Tuesday, the CEO Meta Mark Zuckerberg presented its plans to automate the entire advertising sector with an end-to-end advertising tool. As Maxwell Zeff reports, “it is an open question about what AD TESTS will ask the Meta platforms from the point of view of the user experience, considering that they are already full of generative artificial intelligence slop”.
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And talking about ads: Meta announced to the Newfronts conference that is testing video ads in threads. The update follows the recent announcement of the destination that the threads now reach over 350 million monthly active users.
Yes, please! I am not too expert in the kitchen, so the new POSHA robot who cooks your meals for you sounds like a dream become reality. Scroll a list of recipes, select what you want, add the adequate quantities of the required ingredients and the machine makes the meal from there.
We came back, small: Before the ascent of the vertical video, the web series scripted on YouTube were successful enough to shoot in favor of favor of favor of worship as “Broad City”, “Insecure” and “Letterkenny”. Now the web series is back, but lives on a new platform: Tiktok.
See you a real one: Bill Gates said Thursday that the Gates Foundation will only be 20 years old to run out its speakers and close the operations. He has committed himself to donating 99% of his fortune, which today is worth about $ 107 billion, to the Foundation.
Analyses
What is the next step for Openai: Openii’s new renovation plan could satisfy the regulators and investors who have heavily invested in the company hoping for future profits. But it could also interrupt the future ambitions of Openi, in particular as regards a potential hypo.
