May 2024

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky steps down

May 14, 2024

Adam Selipsky is stepping down from his role as CEO of AWS, Amazon PR has confirmed to TechCrunch.  In a memo shared internally by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and published this morning to Amazon’s company blog, Jassy said that AWS sales chief Matt Garman will be promoted to CEO. Garman previously headed AWS’ EC2 cloud […]

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The Download: OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and what’s coming at Google I/O

May 14, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI’s new GPT-4o lets people interact using voice or video in the same model The news: OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of AI model that you can communicate with in real…

After surpassing $100M in ARR, Harness Labs grabs a $150M line of credit

May 14, 2024

Harness Lab isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public. His latest venture has raised $425 million, per Crunchbase. On Tuesday, Harness announced $150 million in debt financing, essentially a line of credit that the company can draw on […]

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What to expect at Google I/O

May 14, 2024
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In the world of AI, a lot can happen in a year. Last year, at the beginning of Big Tech’s AI wars, Google announced during its annual I/O conference that it…