Andrew Yeung on Twitter / X

Andrew Yeung on Twitter / X

There's a new role every startup is desperate to fill:"Head of IRL"And they're paying $150–$250,000/year for the right personEvery startup is looking for someone to host events and build critical relationships with the stakeholders around the companyLike VCs, talent, and… pic.twitter.com/qswZ1Wy9Ri— Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) December 10, 2025

Director Michael Kratsios on Twitter / X

Today, roughly the same amount of basic research is done in industry as in academia. It’s time our doctoral training reflected that. @NSF is launching a first-of-its-kind 4-year PhD program at more than 30 universities. Students will spend a year+ embedded with industry… pic.twitter.com/8BzVoRRkBj— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) July 29, 2026

Startups Target the Tricky Task of Making AI Seem More Human

Simulated human behavior companies raise millions

The High School That Guarantees You'll Make $1 Million (Ep. 325)

Our conversation with Nat Eliason

Tyler Fisher (@tylerjfisher.com)

Founder, @euphonos.studio. Stop doomscrolling with @sill.social. Watch good NBA games with heatcheck.site. Used to work for a bunch of news orgs. Lapsed Philadelphian in 🇳🇱.

Former Tesla AI boss Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic.

Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on R&D at Anthropic. Previously, he had been working on “new kind of school that is AI native,” and he says he’s still “deeply passionate about education” and plans to go back to it “in time.” [Image: A screenshot of an X post from Andrej Karpathy. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-8.38.56AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]

Gary Marcus on Twitter / X

Sheer insanity. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta collectively are spending more money than the Manhattan Project *every single month*. More than 12x the Manhattan Project every year.And what they have got to show for it? None are making major profits on AI; none has a… pic.twitter.com/1XeMRxDcQX— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) April 29, 2026

Chief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong | Fortune

What's the price of training an AI to take your job someday (soon)? Mercor has contract gig listings as high as $150 per hour.

Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for - PostHog

Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…

Matt Webb

I have worked with some of the world’s largest firms on design-led product invention using new technology for over 20 years. I was MD of two London startup accelerators with R/GA Ventures, and co-founder and CEO of pioneering design studio BERG, where we shipped connected products and got work into the New York MoMA.

The Insider Story of Twilio

This is the insider story of Twilio, told by Co-Founder & CEO Jeff Lawson, from "Idea to IPO" — and now a $63 Billion market cap.

Ed Stone - Founder, Entrepreneur, Fractional CTO.

I'm Ed Stone, an Engineering leader, Founder, Fractional CTO and full-stack developer, based in Vancouver, BC.

Gergely Orosz on Twitter / X

An under-discussed topic: how the hottest software engineering job of the early 2010s is seeing a steady but ongoing decline the last few years.I'm talking about the native iOS and Android positions. Outside of Big Tech, few startups/scaleups hire for this. Since ~2022? pic.twitter.com/SjDcaD2yEs— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 3, 2025