tech:

taffy

Google CEO shunned a large stock award after lavish payouts — Bloomberg

Pichai turned down a big new grant of restricted stock in 2018, writes Mark Bergen and Anders Melin.

Here is the link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-29/google-ceo-turned-down-a-big-stock-award-after-lavish-payouts

Just in

Snowflake to acquire TruEra AI observability platform

Snowflake has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TruEra, providers of an AI observability platform. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Biggest Windows 11 update in 2 years nearly finalized, enters Release Preview — Ars Technica

Microsoft has released Windows 11 24H2 build 26100.712 to its Release Preview testing channel for Windows Insiders, a sign that the update is nearly complete and that the company has shifted into bug-fixing mode ahead of general availability, writes Andrew Cunningham in Ars Technica. 

Elon Musk’s xAI is working on making Grok multimodal — The Verge

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is making progress on adding multimodal inputs to its Grok chatbot, according to public developer documents, writes Kylie Robison in The Verge.