Why Paul Graham advises against founding a startup in high school

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"The thing to do now is to learn new things and increase your skill at the things you already know. Startups are rarely the optimal way to do this," Paul Graham wrote on X on Saturday.

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Joe Gebbia says the backlash he got from working at DOGE was depressing

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Joe Gebbia is holding a clipboard and gesturing with his left hand.
"The hate mail text messages that I got were disheartening to say the least," Joe Gebbia, who joined DOGE in February, said.

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Airtable's CEO says he wants his staff to play with AI, even if it means taking time off from regular work

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Airtable CEO Howie Liu is speaking while gesturing with his hands at a conference in Las Vegas.
"If you want to cancel all your meetings for a day or for an entire week and just go play around with every AI product that you think could be relevant to Airtable, go do it. Period," Airtable CEO Howie Liu said.

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The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce engagement hit so hard, one company gave its employees the afternoon off

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Taylor Swift touching Travis Kelce's chest as they both look up toward their right at Arrowhead Stadium.
"When your Chief People Officer understands the assignment," H&R Block, a tax preparation company based in Kansas City, wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday.

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Former US government tech chief says AI could make navigating the bureaucracy much easier

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Casey Coleman, a vice president at ServiceNow (left); A sign for the US General Services Administration in front of their headquarters.
Casey Coleman, the former chief information officer for the US General Services Administration, says AI will allow federal workers to do "better, more creative, higher-value work."

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Duolingo's CEO says he doesn't plan to lay off full-timers because of AI — but their jobs will change

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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn at Sun Valley, Idaho.
"What will probably happen is that one person will be able to accomplish more, rather than having fewer people," Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said of AI's impact on hiring.

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An early member of Google's generative AI team says it's too late to get a Ph.D. to cash in on the AI hype

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Jad Tarifi, wearing a white shirt and suit, is posing in front of the Tokyo Tower.
Jad Tarifi, 42, joined Google in 2012 and spent nearly a decade with the search giant.

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Elon Musk says Google has the best shot at being the leader in AI

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Elon Musk is wearing a DOGE T-shirt and looking ahead.
Elon Musk said Google "currently has the highest probability of being the leader" in AI because it has the "biggest compute (and data) advantage for now."

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Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple over Grok's App Store ranking and escalating his feud with OpenAI

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Elon Musk looks toward his right in the Oval Office at the White House.
"Unfortunately, what choice do we have? Apple didn't just put their thumb on the scale, they put their whole body!" Elon Musk wrote on X on Monday.

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Mark Cuban is lauding Trump for how the POTUS has handled China and Nvidia

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Mark Cuban speaking onstage at a conference at the Austin Convention Center.
"That is the ULTIMATE wealth tax," Mark Cuban said following reports that Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of their China chip sale revenues.

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