Twitter employees say it's a “shit show internally”, exasperated by weak leadership and lack of support amid targeted harassment from outside the company
Days after the deal to buy Twitter fell apart, fed-up employees say they are being kept in the dark.
Liquidators say they can't find Three Arrows Capital founders Kyle Davies and Zhu Su, and seek to subpoena them to prevent the dissipation of the fund's assets
The founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital haven't been cooperating in the firm's liquidation process …
SEC filing: Twitter's lawyers call Elon Musk's deal termination “invalid and wrongful” and say Twitter “breached none of its obligations under the agreement”
Twitter Inc.'s lawyers called Elon Musk's termination of his $44 billion buyout agreement “invalid and wrongful” …
Twitter rolls out its Unmentioning feature to all users on all devices, letting users remove themselves from conversations that include their Twitter handle
Twitter announced today that it's rolling out its “Unmentioning” feature to all users on all devices.
In an internal post, Meta Vice President of Remote Presence and Engineering Maher Saba instructed managers to identify and “move to exit” poor performers
Meta Platforms' Vice President of Remote Presence and Engineering Maher Saba has instructed managers to identify and …
A look at Twitter's options as Musk tries to back out, such as suing for “expectation damages”, which may be capped at $1B, or suing for “specific performance”
Musk pays Twitter $5 billion or $10 billion or whatever to walk away — then that seems better to me than having a disgruntled Musk buy Twitter at a lower price,” Levine writes. Do you agree? Should El...
The FTC says it will crack down on tech companies' illegal use and sharing of highly sensitive data and false claims about data-anonymization
‘Companies that make false claims about anonymization can expect to hear from the FTC.’ … Lots of websites and apps like to claim your data is …
Spotify buys Heardle, a music trivia game inspired by Wordle, describing it as a “tool for musical discovery” and with plans to keep it as a standalone site
The game, which challenges users to identify a song based on short audio clips, will remain free to play for users.
Animoca Brands says it has completed a $75.32M raise, which was the second tranche of its January raise, pushing its valuation from $5.5B up to $5.9B
The infusion is the second tranche of January's funding round, which nabbed almost $360 million and valued the investment company at $5.5 billion.
Apple debuts iOS 16's first public beta with lock screen widgets, iMessage edit and undo, Pay Later, and more, alongside macOS, watchOS, and iPadOS public betas
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Filing: Amazon is developing “personalized” cancer vaccines in partnership with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and is part of an FDA-approved clinical trial
- Amazon is working with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to develop cancer vaccines, according to a filing.
BigScience, an effort by 1K+ researchers and NLP startup Hugging Face, releases BLOOM, an open-access multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3
A group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they're giving it out for free.
Wefox, a Berlin-based digital insurer focused on personal insurance products, raised a $400M Series D at a post-money valuation of $4.5B, up from $3B in 2021
European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 billion.
STMicro and GlobalFoundries plan to build a €5.7B chip factory in France with full capacity by 2026, with “significant” funding from the French government
XPeng Robotics, an affiliate of Chinese electric carmaker XPeng, raised $100M led by IDG, as it aims to commercialize household robotics in the next two years
- Xpeng Robotics on Tuesday said it raised $100 million as the affiliate company of Chinese electric carmaker Xpeng aims …
OpenAI rival AI21 Labs raised a $64M Series B valuing the company at $664M, as the Tel Aviv-based startup expands services on top of its large language models
The enterprise is bullish on AI systems that can understand and generate text, known as language models.
YouTube begins rolling out picture-in-picture support for all US iOS users, but says that the feature requires a premium subscription to work with music videos
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Google countersues Match, accusing it of bad faith dealings and breach of contract, after Match sued Google in May over alleged monopolistic billing policies
Google has sued Match Group Inc., accusing the dating-app service of bad faith dealings and breach of contract in provoking a legal battle over Google Play policies.
GameStop launches its NFT marketplace in beta, letting users connect digital asset wallets, including the recently debuted GameStop Wallet, to buy and sell NFTs
After scrutiny, TikTok will pause a privacy update in Europe, due for July 13, whereby it would stop asking users for consent to be tracked to receive ads
TikTok has agreed to pause a controversial privacy policy update in Europe, which had been due to happen tomorrow …
WhatsApp rolls out the ability for users to react to messages with any emoji, after adding the ability to react with its chosen six emoji in May
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Sources: China decided to rein in Tencent after two scandals, including a secret WeChat project to use data to predict new Politburo standing committee members
Imagine for a second life before smartphones. Simple tasks—ordering takeout, staying in touch—become frustratingly difficult, never mind dealing with emergencies. Tweets: @sandyhendry , @hancocktom ,...
Crypto lender Vauld disclosed a ~$70M shortfall, listing $330M in assets and $400M in liabilities, but says the numbers may not be final as audits are ongoing
- Vauld has disclosed a shortfall of $70 million in a letter to creditors. — The firm has also listed multiple other plans if its deal with Nexo doesn't go through.
Mark MacGann, who led Uber's lobbying in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, comes forward as the leaker of 124K+ files, says Uber flouted laws and sold a lie
Meta launches Sphere, an open-source AI knowledge tool based on 134M public webpages; Wikipedia, Sphere's first user, is using it to verify articles' citations
an order of magnitude larger and significantly more intricate than ever used for this sort of research. Read more: https://ai.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/... @metaai : (1/2) Today, we're anno...
Report on Apple's eight-year self-driving car struggle as 20 people from the project cite “constantly shifting goals”, a “revolving door of leaders”, and more
and nearly a jogger Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : Apple car won't need a steering wheel Ariel Zilber / New York Post : Apple's self-driving cars ‘smacked into curbs, veered out of lanes’: report MacDailyNe...
Digital asset management service Gnosis Safe rebrands as Safe after its community voted to split from Ethereum infrastructure builder Gnosis, and raised $100M
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
Broadcom's software president Thomas Krause plans to leave on July 15 and become CEO of combined Citrix and Tibco; CEO Hock Tan will assume his responsibilities
On July 6, 2022, Thomas H. Krause, President of the Broadcom Software Group of Broadcom Inc. … Liana Baker / Bloomberg : Broadcom's Krause to Become CEO of New Citrix-Tibco Combination Wallace Witkows...
Klarna confirms raising $800M at a $6.7B valuation, down from $46B in June 2021, including from new investors Mubadala and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times :
Singapore-based Intellect, which lets employers offer mental health services as part of employee benefit programs, raised $10M, doubling its Series A to $20M
Jonathan Burgos / Forbes :
Edge, which lets gamers clip and turn shareable gameplay moments into standalone playable units called Playables, raised a $30M Series A led by Corner Ventures
Rachel Kaser / VentureBeat :
Reports of hijacked accounts and analysis of Experian's authentication flow reveal poor security at the credit bureau, after PIN reset flaws were found in 2021
Sources: Mysten Labs, a blockchain startup founded by ex-Meta crypto executives, is in talks to raise a $200M+ Series B led by FTX Ventures at a $2B valuation
We're not even hiding the web3 scam anymore...it's in the article! Overpay for equity, get cheap tokens, flip to retail. It's an ICO, but with “equity” investors taking on the role of middleman. https...
SingleStore, which helps businesses manage data across on-premises and cloud apps, raised a $116M Series F extension valuing it at $1B+ and led by Goldman Sachs
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Smart home company Hive stops selling home security devices to focus on thermostats and smart lighting; existing devices will stop working starting in 2023
Jon Porter / The Verge :
A look at the dispute between satellite internet providers like SpaceX and 5G operators like Dish, as both lobby the FCC over wireless frequencies above 12 GHz
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Virtual events startup Hopin, valued at $7.75B in August 2021, lays off 242 employees, or ~29% of its staff, after cutting 12% of its staff in February 2022
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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