masayoshi son
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says He Has ‘No Interest’ in Competing With Smartphones
After rumours began to swirl that Sam Altman’s OpenAI tapped Jony Ive on a secret piece of hardware, the company’s wunderkind CEO says he has no plans to compete with the smartphone market. Insider reports that Altman made these remarks at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live event this week—if that event sounds familiar it’s…
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RIP Pepper the Robot (2014-2020)
Japanese telecom giant SoftBank halted production of Pepper the robot in August of 2020, according to a new report from Reuters. And it seems unlikely that new ones will ever roll off the manufacturing line.
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Area Investment Firm Admits WeFuckedUp
SoftBank chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son admitted during a Q2 earnings presentation on Wednesday that he really screwed the pooch with respect to that whole WeWork clusterfuck, according to reports.