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Figma is getting crushed in its post-IPO earnings debut; CEO Dylan Field is focused on AI’s long-term power to ‘raise the ceiling’

In an interview with Fortune, the cofounder and chief executive of the newly public Figma discussed the increasingly interconnected future of design and AI.

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Waymo experimenting with a generative AI frontier model, but exec says LiDAR and radar sensors important to self-driving safety ‘under all conditions’
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Harvard researcher unearths data airlines don’t want you to notice: Three-hour flight delays are 4x more common now than 30 years ago
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Tech industry insiders share their picks for the next startups who will ride the IPO wave after Figma’s blockbuster debut
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Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of
Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of
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Design leaders are viewing their profession with a bit more humility: ‘Not that many businesses are so fluid that they need constant reinvention’
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By Lionel LimDecember 6, 2023
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