Monica Melton

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Deputy Tech Editor at Business Insider

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I'm a business immigration lawyer. The current system is designed to get employers to say, 'Forget it.'

3 days ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Melia Russell |Henry Blodget

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation in mid-May with 44-year-old Jason Finkelman, a business immigration lawyer in Austin. The following has been edited for length and clarity. These days, I feel like I'm half lawyer, half therapist for my clients. I help foreign nationals with employment and family immigration. On the employment side, I'm working with clients across a range of industries, including tech, semiconductor, energy, oil and gas, research, and video gaming.
Voyager Technologies Launches $1.6 Billion IPO Amid Defense Tech Surge

3 days ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Julia Hornstein |Henry Blodget

Voyager Technologies, a defense and space tech company, aims to raise up to $319 million in an initial public offering that could value it as high as $1.6 billion, the company said on Monday. Their filing underscores how defense and space tech companies are drawing renewed attention from DC and Silicon Valley.
The Pentagon launched a military-grade Y Combinator, signaling that defense tech is officially cool on college campuses

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Julia Hornstein |Henry Blodget

The Department of Defense is scouting the next Palantir — and it's starting on college campuses. This week, the Defense Innovation Unit — the Pentagon's emerging tech arm — launched a university accelerator, open for applications through late June. The 12-week program will be a military-grade Y Combinator of sorts, offering early-stage startups funding, mentorship, and DoD connections. Fifteen teams spun out of US universities — working in AI, cyber, space, and more — will evenly split $500,000.
Nvidia's most important number doesn't have a dollar sign in front of it: Token growth

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Emma Cosgrove |Henry Blodget

Nvidia's revenue climbed to $44.1 billion last quarter, yet one of the chip giant's most important metrics doesn't have a dollar sign in front of it. "OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are seeing a step function leap in token generation," said Nvidia CFO Colette Kress on the company's Wednesday earnings call. "Microsoft processed over 100 trillion tokens in Q1, a fivefold increase on a year-over-year basis," she continued.
Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey end their beef and partner to build extended reality tech for the US military

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Julia Hornstein |Henry Blodget

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey — once on warring sides of the tech culture clash — are giving new meaning to the adage: all is fair in love and war. The two executives buried the hatchet and announced a partnership Thursday to build next-gen extended reality gear for the US military.
Czym naprawdę jest AI? Dwie ekspertki przekonują, że nie tym, czym się wydaje

1 week ago | businessinsider.com.pl | Monica Melton

Choć może się wydawać, że sztuczna inteligencja szturmem zdobywa świat, są osoby, które świadomie trzymają się na dystans. Emily Bender, profesorka lingwistyki na Uniwersytecie Waszyngtońskim, oraz Alex Hanna, dyrektorka ds. badań w Distributed AI Research Institute i była etyczka AI w Google, w swojej nowej książce "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" próbują udowodnić, że technologiczni giganci nie przedstawiają autentycznego obrazu AI.
Czym naprawdę jest AI? Dwie ekspertki przekonują, że nie tym, czym się wydaje

1 week ago | onet.pl | Monica Melton

Sztuczna inteligencja w dużej mierze jest dziś PR-emChoć może się wydawać, że sztuczna inteligencja szturmem zdobywa świat, są osoby, które świadomie trzymają się na dystans. Emily Bender, profesorka lingwistyki na Uniwersytecie Waszyngtońskim, oraz Alex Hanna, dyrektorka ds.
Legaltech unicorn Harvey has agreed to spend $150 million on Azure over two years, an internal memo shows

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Ashley Stewart |Melia Russell |Henry Blodget

Legaltech startup Harvey has agreed to a two-year, $150 million commitment to use Azure cloud services, according to an internal email seen by Business Insider. Jay Parikh, who leads Microsoft's new CoreAI unit, included the deal in an internal memo, writing that his unit "announced expanded partnership with Harvey Al with a 2-year $150M MACC and $3.5M unified expansion." Parikh joined Microsoft in October to lead a new engineering group responsible for building its artificial-intelligence tools.
Internal Memo: Meta Increases Employees Rated "Below Expectations"

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Pranav Dixit |Jyoti Mann |Henry Blodget

Meta is expanding the ranks of its lowest-rated employees in mid-year performance reviews, a move that could lead to more performance-based cuts. Meta is telling managers to put more employees in "Below Expectations", the lowest performance bucket during this year's mid-year performance reviews, according to a memo shared on Meta's internal forum on May 14, which was viewed by Business Insider.
Big Tech Shed Managers for Efficiency-here's How Its Going

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Emma Cosgrove |Tim Paradis |Eugene Kim

Companies are shedding bloated layers of management in an attempt to reduce bureaucracy. Some employees are applauding the move, known as flattening the middle, in the hopes of getting faster and boosting efficiency. Microsoft said Tuesday it's slashing around 6,000 employees.

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Articles

I'm a business immigration lawyer. The current system is designed to get employers to say, 'Forget it.'

Voyager Technologies Launches $1.6 Billion IPO Amid Defense Tech Surge

The Pentagon launched a military-grade Y Combinator, signaling that defense tech is officially cool on college campuses

Nvidia's most important number doesn't have a dollar sign in front of it: Token growth

Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey end their beef and partner to build extended reality tech for the US military

Czym naprawdę jest AI? Dwie ekspertki przekonują, że nie tym, czym się wydaje

Czym naprawdę jest AI? Dwie ekspertki przekonują, że nie tym, czym się wydaje

Legaltech unicorn Harvey has agreed to spend $150 million on Azure over two years, an internal memo shows

Internal Memo: Meta Increases Employees Rated "Below Expectations"

Big Tech Shed Managers for Efficiency-here's How Its Going

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