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Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

AI data center startup Nscale appointed former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo to its board ahead of a planned fall IPO and reported $3.5 billion raise.

Nscale, a UK-based AI data center startup founded two years ago, appointed Fidji Simo to its board. Simo was formerly CEO of AGI Deployment at OpenAI (the lab's No. 2 executive), and previously served as Instacart CEO through its 2023 IPO and as head of the Facebook app at Meta. She joins Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Decker, and Nick Clegg on the board as the company prepares for an anticipated IPO this fall. Nscale is reportedly attempting to raise up to $3.5 billion ahead of the IPO, according to Bloomberg.

TechCrunch · AISep 11, 16:46 UTC · 4d agoAI industry

Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify

Shopify is dropping React Native for separate Swift and Kotlin native apps, saying AI agents now handle cross-platform implementation work.

Shopify adopted React Native in 2020 to stop building features twice, let developers work across the stack, and spend less time chasing feature parity. The company now plans to return to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases. Simon Willison's commentary notes AI agents can do enough implementation, translation, testing, and review work that dual native codebases are viable again.

Simon WillisonSep 10, 21:11 UTC · 5d agoAI industry

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