Robert Scammell
Senior Editor at Business Insider
Senior editor of VC, startups & tech at @BusinessInsider. Signal: Rob_Scammell.12
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5 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Robert Scammell |Riddhi Kanetkar |Henry Blodget
In Paris's balmy thirteenth district, an airy rail depot that's been converted into a startup incubator is now the epicenter of France's tech boom. Walking through Station F, it's hard not to see how the 366,000-square-foot space has been influenced by Silicon Valley, with its amenities like a huge cafeteria and an under-construction yoga studio that are reminiscent of Big Tech campuses.
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Jack Sommers |Robert Scammell |Henry Blodget
I asked four founders whether AI will take jobs, as tech's big guns argue about how it will transform the future of work. During his European tour last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang slapped down Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for warning AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. At London Tech Week, where Huang delivered the keynote, founders told me how they use AI day-to-day — and whether they are worried about AI's impact on the job market.
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Robert Scammell |Lara O'Reilly |Henry Blodget
Partner, sue, or block? Those tend to be the three available options for publishers when it comes to dealing with artificial intelligence companies scraping their content to train large language models. Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network, is emphatically choosing the blocking path.
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2 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Robert Scammell |Riddhi Kanetkar |Effie Webb |Henry Blodget
AI tools can lower the barrier to launching a startup, but scaling them still requires technical expertise, GitHub's CEO has said. Speaking on the sidelines of VivaTech in Paris, Thomas Dohmke said over the last two years, he's observed companies go from needing convincing to use AI to "a lot of FOMO" in the market. AI coding assistants can now help non-technical founders create a startup with a small team and no external funding, he said during a Q&A at Station F, a startup campus.
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2 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Robert Scammell |Effie Webb |Henry Blodget
Voice assistants are becoming a bigger part of our daily lives, and hype from frontier labs like OpenAI has sparked debate about whether talking chatbots might actually be a substitute for real human connections. But in many health and social care contexts, voice AI is less about replacing human-human connections and more about filling gaps and freeing up staff from busywork.
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