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Here's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff (8 minute read)

This article presents the story of Tesla's Supercharger firings based on interviews with eight former charging-division employees, one contractor, and an email that Tesla sent to outside vendors. Charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Elon Musk about the network's future the day before the firings. Tinucci had recently cut between 15% to 20% of staff, but Musk wanted more layoffs. She balked at the request, saying that deeper cuts would undermine the charging businesses' fundamentals. Musk responded by firing Tinucci and her entire 500-member team.

May 15 | AI

Google I/O (9 minute read)

Google announced many new features, including Gemini Flash, Veo video generation, Imagen 3, and its newest assistant, Project Astra, at I/O 2024. In all, there are an impressive number of improvements, including 2m token context length, dramatically cheaper models, and improved multimodality.

May 15 | Webdev

10 lessons from 12 years at Google (12 minute read)

Over a 12-year career at Google, Addy Osmani learned to put users first, collaborate well by actively sharing knowledge, and embrace lifelong learning. He encourages readers to just get started and iterate rather than trying to strive for perfection.

May 15 | Design

Google's invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video (2 minute read)

Google has enhanced its AI content watermarking technology, SynthID, to now mark AI-generated text and video. This technology is crucial for distinguishing between AI-created and authentic content to prevent misuse, such as spreading misinformation or generating nonconsensual media.

Here's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff (8 minute read)

Google I/O (9 minute read)

10 lessons from 12 years at Google (12 minute read)

Google's invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video (2 minute read)

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Keylime (GitHub Repo)

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