FTC Chair Lina Khan kicks off her talk at Y Combinator HQ in downtown San Francisco. It’s the second time she’s spoken at the accelerator’s HQ, and third time she’s at a YC event, in the past twelve months.

Starts w/ a shout out to @garrytan for advocating for “little tech” Khan is talking about the importance of “open weights models” among AI companies.

Cloud gatekeepers, model costs, all factors that FTC is looking at right now when thinking about AI policy.

i wrote a story about kimberly bryant's suspension at black girls code, which came after months of rising tensions between her, the board and employees:

techcrunch.com/2021/12/27/kim… over the summer, there was rapid turnover at BGC. bryant attributes it to the great resignation, former employees cite the chief executive as a key reason for their departures.

techcrunch.com/2021/12/27/kim…

I started covering edtech for @techcrunch & @extracrunch the same day that Stanford first closed campus; here's what I've learned so far (a thread) The first few months of remote learning were defined by relying on pre-existing solutions, largely Zoom, to deal with the scramble to online learning: techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/edt…

day 2 begins! Kick off with Asher Bio from two ex-Pfizer directors who were tired of pharma’s pace of work. They’re tackling precision immunotherapy cancer treatments and have snagged 4 of their previous team members