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Hey, friends! Welcome back to Week in Review, where every Saturday we recap a handful of the top stories from the past seven days. Want it in your inbox? Get it here!<\/p>\n
This week marked the in-person return of Disrupt, with our team taking the show back into the real world after two years fully virtual. It was one helluva show, with appearances from people like tennis legend (turned investor) Serena Williams, comedian (also turned investor!) Kevin Hart, Lyft co-founder John Zimmer, and Figma CEO Dylan Field. Congrats to Minerva Lithium for winning the Startup Battlefield competition!<\/p>\n
Google\u2019s Ping-Pong robot<\/strong>: \u201cAs if it weren\u2019t enough to have AI tanning humanity\u2019s hide (figuratively for now) at every board game in existence,\u201d writes Devin, \u201cGoogle AI has got one working to destroy us all at Ping-Pong as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Elon expects huge Twitter layoffs<\/strong>: Musk reportedly wants to cut up to 75% of Twitter\u2019s workforce \u2014 roughly 5,600 jobs \u2014 if\/when his acquisition of the company goes through. That number seems pretty absurd. Even much smaller layoffs have compounding effects on things like team morale and productivity \u2014 just imagine the amount of knowledge\/insight that disappears if the majority<\/em> of a company is let go.<\/p>\n Kanye West is buying Parler<\/strong>: Well, that\u2019s a headline I never, ever, ever would\u2019ve predicted. \u201cKanye West, the rapper who also goes by the name Ye, has reached an agreement to buy \u2018uncancelable free speech platform\u2019 Parler,\u201d writes Manish, \u201cin a move [the involved parties say] will help individuals express their conservative opinions freely.\u201d<\/p>\n Stability AI raises $101 million<\/strong>: The company behind the AI-powered image generator Stable Diffusion and music-generating system Dance Diffusion has raised $101 million at a reported valuation of $1 billion.<\/p>\n Netflix explores cloud gaming<\/strong>: Just as Google gives up on its cloud gaming efforts, Netflix is diving in. At Disrupt this week, Netflix\u2019s VP of Gaming said the company is \u201cseriously exploring a cloud gaming offering,\u201d saying that Google\u2019s shuttered effort was a \u201ctechnical success\u201d with \u201cissues with the business model.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what\u2019s up in TC podcast land this week:<\/p>\n What were TC+ members reading most behind the paywall? Here\u2019s a peek:<\/p>\n 2023 VC predictions<\/strong>: After a wild few years of ups and downs, what will venture capital look like in 2023? Contrary Capital founder Eric Tarczynski weighs in.<\/p>\n Ron explores Celonis and its $13 billion valuation<\/strong>: Celonis might not be a name that everyone recognizes\u2026but the 11-year-old data-processing company has managed to raise billions of dollars in the last few years alone. What are they doing so right? Ron Miller takes us on a deep dive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey, friends! Welcome back to Week in Review, where every Saturday we recap a handful of the top stories from the past seven days. Want it in your inbox? Get it here! This week marked the in-person return of Disrupt, with our team taking the show back into the real world after two years fully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1231800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}audio roundup<\/h2>\n
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