Tag - San Francisco

Technology
US news
US crime
California
San Francisco
Nima Momeni had no motive to stab Bob Lee to death, opening day of trial in San Francisco hears The tech consultant charged in Cash App founder Bob Lee’s stabbing death had no motive to kill him and in fact was forced to defend himself against Lee, who had become aggressive while on a multi-day drug bender, lawyers for Nima Momeni said in opening statements on Monday. Prosecutors say Momeni, 40, planned the 4 April 2023 attack after a dispute over his younger sister, Khazar, with whom Lee was friends. They say Momeni took a knife from a unique set in his sister’s condo, drove Lee to a secluded area and stabbed him three times, then fled. Continue reading...
October 15, 2024 / The Guardian | Technology
Technology
Culture
Comedy
Artificial intelligence (AI)
San Francisco
The stand-up comedian ripped into the AI cloud-based company’s employees – and got praised for it online Last week, John Mulaney looked out on a crowd of corporate Salesforce employees and told them they were “imminently replaceable. “You look like a group who looked at the self-checkout counters at CVS and thought, ‘This is the future,’” the comedian said. “If AI is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die. So many of you feel imminently replaceable.” Continue reading...
September 24, 2024 / The Guardian | Technology