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The impossible dream of good workplace software
Can AI actually change our love-hate relationship with our tools?
That’s straight from Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, who took great exception to our story from September 25th, which was sourced to a Fast Company article about his comments at one of their events. Jesse told me the actual daily user number was around 20,000, spiking up to 34,000 the day the company’s new LAM Playgrounds were launched, and that his actual comment was that 5,000 of those people were using the Rabbit at any given time. For context, Jesse also told me Rabbit has sold 100,000 R1s so far.
Fast Company has corrected its story, and we’ve updated our story as well. You can hear the whole conversation on Decoder.
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t thinking too far ahead
Rabbit’s large action model is here, sort of — but everyone else is coming fast.
NBCU’s streaming chief isn’t worried about you canceling cable
Matt Strauss, head of Peacock and global streaming, has plans to keep you watching.
Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks AR glasses will replace your phone
Meta’s CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he’s done with politics, and more.
Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype
Anthropic’s new chief product officer on the promise and limits of chatbots like Claude and what’s next for generative AI.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry needs competition to thrive
Dohmke says navigating Microsoft-OpenAI isn’t as complicated as it seems, and open source is still king.
Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots
The head of chatbot maker Replika discusses the role AI will play in the future of human relationships.
DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict
AAG Jonathan Kanter says the Google monopoly verdict belongs on the ‘Mount Rushmore of antitrust.’
One thing about having the idea of AI clones attending meetings in Zoom presented to you for the first time in a conversation with the CEO on your podcast is that other people get to react to said idea in a much funnier way, like Angela Collier does here.
How the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling could doom net neutrality
The court struck down Chevron deference last month. That’s a big deal for the future of net neutrality.
A new Rivian or easy access to your iPhone apps from your vehicle’s console? CEO RJ Scaringe says you can’t have both.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe: too many carmakers are copying Tesla
Rivian’s founder on the R2 / R3 roadmap and the company’s $5 billion VW deal.
What happened to the metaverse?
‘The Metaverse’ author Matthew Ball discusses the new update to his 2022 book and how the Apple Vision Pro and AI fit into the spatial internet.
Biden’s top tech adviser says AI is a ‘today problem’
Arati Prabhakar, a former DARPA chief and now director of the White House’s OSTP, says the time to regulate AI is now.
Canva CEO Melanie Perkins thinks the design world needs more alternatives to Adobe
To her, AI is just an extension of what Canva has always done: make accessible design tools that cost less than Adobe’s.
Netflix’s Greg Peters on a new culture memo and where ads, AI, and games fit in
The co-CEO who replaced co-founder Reed Hastings details the company’s new culture memo, its ad ambitions, and what’s next for Netflix.
In case you missed it: Kylie Robison and I were recently on Decoder to talk about the companies and incentives driving the AI boom. We covered a lot of ground, from AI raves in San Francisco to open vs. closed source. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Inside the players and politics of the modern AI industry
Guest host Alex Heath sits down with reporter Kylie Robison to discuss what it’s like to be fully immersed in the AI industry every day.
AI will make money sooner than you’d think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Enterprise is the pathway to profit, Gomez says, but maybe don’t ask it to do medicine quite yet.
The CEO of Zoom wants AI clones in meetings
Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.
Google Zero is here — now what?
Search is an invisible platform that shaped the entire web. And it’s changing.