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2 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, is doing something unexpected for one of the biggest names in tech: casually building web apps with AI coding assistants. "I wish I could do more," Pichai said on Wednesday at Bloomberg Tech in San Francisco. "I've just been messing around — either with Cursor or I vibe coded with Replit — trying to build a custom webpage with all the sources of information I wanted in one place. I could type a location and get it all," Pichai said.
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3 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
Vibe coding might sound chill, but Andrew Ng thinks the name is unfortunate. The Stanford professor and former Google Brain scientist said the term misleads people into imagining engineers just "go with the vibes" when using AI tools to write code. "It's unfortunate that that's called vibe coding," Ng said at a firechat chat in May at conference LangChain Interrupt.
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4 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
When it comes to building new products, a bigger team isn't always better. It might be what kills the idea altogether, said Windsurf's CEO, Varun Mohan. Mohan said on an episode of the "Twenty Minute VC" podcast published Monday that having as many as 10 people working on an unproven idea can backfire fast. "Everyone has opinions. Everyone has ideas. And nobody's ideas are wrong — because no one has proven anything," he said. "It's very hard to get alignment.
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5 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
More than two decades after Steve Ballmer's frenzied "Developers! Developers! Developers!" chant became a viral sensation, the former Microsoft CEO said it wasn't just for show. Ballmer broke down the iconic moment — sweat, shouting, and all — on an episode of the "Acquired" podcast published Monday. He said it was a strategic "call to action" for Microsoft then. Ballmer was frustrated with how Microsoft's culture in the early 2000s still saw itself as "just a platform company," he said.
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5 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
Some AI founders are landing big enterprise deals by doing something old-school: showing up, writing code, and building the perfect demo — fast. YC partners say this strategy is taking off, and it's straight out of Palantir's early playbook. Startup founders should see themselves as "forward-deployed engineers," said Garry Tan, YC's CEO, on an episode of the "Y Combinator" podcast published Friday.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
AI is a tool to boost productivity, not to take anyone's job, according to the script many CEOs have been using. Behind closed doors, it's a very different conversation, said two software investors on an episode of the "Twenty Minute VC" podcast published Thursday. "Public companies are trying to prepare their teams for it, but the backlash was too strong," said Jason Lemkin, an investor in software startups.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
Coding is no longer the must-have skill of the AI era, said Salesforce's chief futures officer, Peter Schwartz. "The most important skill is empathy, working with other people," said Schwartz in an interview with Business Insider at the Singapore tech conference ATxSummit. "Parents ask me what should my kids study, shall they be coders? I said, 'learn how to work with others.'"Schwartz said empathy is the ability to understand and relate to another human being, like with coworkers.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.jp | Lee Chong Ming
ベンチマークのゼネラルパートナー、ビクター・ラザルテは、AIが「完全に人に取って代わっている」と語っている。 彼によると、特に弁護士とリクルーターの2つのホワイトカラーの職業は警戒すべきだという。 ラザルテは、企業は「より価値が高く」なり、規模はさらに小さくなるだろうとも話している。 あるテクノロジー投資家は、「AIが労働者を助ける」という大企業の主張に納得していない。 「大企業はよく『AIは人間の仕事を奪うのではなく、サポートするだけだ』と言っているが、それは疑問だ」と語るのは、ベンチャーキャピタルのベンチマーク（Benchmark）でゼネラルパートナーを務めるビクター・ラザルテ（Victor Lazarte）だ。ベンチマークは、ウーバー（Uber）、アサナ（Asana）、スナップ（Snap）、ウィーワーク（WeWork）などの有名企業に投資してきたことで知られている。 「こんなのはまやかしだ。実際には人の仕事をまるごと奪っている」 ラザルテは、2025年4月に公開されたポッドキャスト番組「トゥエンティ・ミニットVC（Twenty Minute...
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Lee Chong Ming |Henry Blodget
As the world scrambles to scale artificial intelligence, Asia is running into a very physical problem: not enough data centers and infrastructure, said Ian Andrews, the chief revenue officer at semiconductor startup Groq. There's a "huge challenge getting enough compute" for what the company wants to do in Asia, Andrews said on Wednesday during a panel at Singapore tech conference ATxSummit. "It's a big problem that we have to go tackle," he added.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Lee Chong Ming
22 hours agoNvidia (NVDA) bulls are riding hard for the stock, but there's still a valuable bear case for the world's most valuable chipmaker. Arguably the most important Magnificent Seven member, Nvidia reports earnings after market close on Wednesday — and the usual hype is hard to miss. The stock is up a …
