Andrew Galpin

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Jan Koum had grown up in communist Ukraine, where phones were routinely tapped, and he had a note taped to his desk, written by his cofounder Brian Acton, that read “No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!” But after selling to Facebook for $19 billion, Koum and Acton found themselves having to compromise their earlier standards on privacy. At one point, for instance, they updated their policies so that people’s WhatsApp accounts could be linked behind the scenes with their Facebook profiles. An angry clash between Acton and Facebook’s executives ensued and he eventually quit the company before the end ...more
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
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