Alex Heath is Deputy Editor for The Verge and the author of Command Line, the site’s weekly newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation. He regularly interviews Silicon Valley’s most influential leaders and breaks agenda-setting scoops. His work has been cited in congressional hearings and on Saturday Night Live. It has also been recognized by the Livingston Awards, the American Society of Magazine Editors, and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Before joining The Verge in 2021, Heath was a reporter for The Information. He lives in Los Angeles.
The Verge’s Hayden Field and I chat about how AI researcher became the most lucrative tech jobs of all time.
The AI talent wars are intense! Here’s Windsurf’s second hire describing the way Google came in and reverse acquihired the core AI research team. He didn’t take the deal and is now at another AI coding startup called Cognition, which acquired the rest of Windsurf that Google didn’t want.
Captions CEO Gaurav Misra on his company’s alarming deepfake report and what to watch out for as the tech advances.
If you’re interested in a high-level overview of the state of deepfakes, I recommend checking out this blog post from Captions, a Capcut competitor and a software platform that enables creators to generate AI-generated videos from scratch.
What struck me the most is the company’s prediction that, “Very soon, most models will allow you to generate a person (real or synthetic) in any situation – without a duration constraint (longer than 12 seconds) and featuring multiple people in one shot.” Chat, are we cooked?
I’ll have Captions CEO Gaurav Misra on Decoder later this week to talk about this.
Aravind Srinivas on Perplexity’s new Comet web browser, the AI talent frenzy, and a future IPO.
Meaning founder and former Verge reporter Ellis Hamburger on the ethical vacuum in AI and what founders aren’t saying publicly.
