Sources: the researcher who declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B+ package over six years is Thinking Machines co-founder and ex-Meta staffer Andrew Tulloch
The loyalties and larger-than-life figures prompting some people to turn down insanely lucrative offers in Silicon Valley right now
Sources: Apple formed an Answers, Knowledge, and Information team to work on ChatGPT-like search experiences; iPhone 17 Pro may have been seen in live testing
Apple has a new “Answers” team developing a stripped-down rival to ChatGPT to help users access world knowledge.
The Marin Community Foundation sold 13.4M+ Figma shares for $440M+ in the IPO; source: the foundation had received the shares from Figma co-founder Evan Wallace
As Figma went public this week to much fanfare—and an almost instantaneous 250% stock pop—quite a few folks from Silicon Valley made money. X: @ajs X: Alyson Shontell / @ajs : Figma IPO's surprise win...
The US Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to serve as National Cyber Director, making him the first Senate-approved cybersecurity official of Trump's second term
Sean Cairncross, then-CEO Millenium Challenge Corporation, speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit on September 24, 2019 in New York City.
Arkham Intelligence claims to have uncovered a previously undisclosed heist of 127,426 BTC, now worth ~$14.5B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian in December 2020
- Blockchain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence claims to have uncovered a heist of 127,426 BTC, now worth nearly $14.5 billion, from a Chinese mining pool in 2020.
Lina Khan cites Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny, saying letting startups grow independently, rather than be acquired, can generate “enormous value”
not because state harassment helped! [image] LinkedIn: Yuliya Chernova : “Figma isn't just any VC-backed tech IPO. It is a behemoth. There's a very small list of VC-backed companies valued in the ra...
SAP plans to acquire HR software company SmartRecruiters, with the deal expected to close in Q4; SmartRecruiters was valued at $1.5B in a 2021 funding round
SAP SE, Europe's most valuable company, will buy San Francisco-based human resources software specialist SmartRecruiters.
Anthropic cited OpenAI's use of Claude Code “ahead of the launch of GPT-5” but says it will provide API access to OpenAI for benchmarking and safety evaluations
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer :
How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025
who sometime were already doing the job before Palantir. … @crystal159 : . — PALANTIR — The software and data analytics company has garnered at least $300 million in new and expanded business sinc...
Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K+ jobs
Despite global layoffs, FAAMNG companies are expanding their India headcount, growing by 16% in the past year, driven by demand for AI, cloud, and cybersecurity skills.
An in-depth look at the rise of relationships between humans and AI companion chatbots on apps like Nomi, coinciding with a loneliness epidemic in the US
Nikolai Daskalov lives alone in a small house in rural Virginia. His preferred spot is a brown suede recliner in the middle … X: @justalexoki , @helentheauthor , @stardustbunney , @drjenwolkin , and ...
Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire a stake in Chicago-based Trading Technologies, sources say the deal values the capital markets industry SaaS provider at over $1B
Buyout firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to acquire a stake in Trading Technologies International Inc. in a transaction valued at more than $1 billion …
A profile of Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski, who declined an offer to become CEO of Truth Social and opted to provide services to the platform through Rumble
Before he helped run Truth Social, Chris Pavlovski owned porn domains. Now, he's allied with a political movement that wants to ban pornography. See also Mediagazer
Shares of Hong Kong-listed Chinese chipmaker InnoScience closed up 31% on August 1, after Nvidia named the company as a supplier for its 800V HVDC architecture
Felix Tam / Bloomberg :
Cinven acquires a majority stake in Smart Communications from Accel-KKR; sources: the deal values the customer conversations platform at ~$1.8B including debt
Cinven has acquired a majority stake in UK technology firm Smart Communications from investment firm Accel-KKR.
Manus unveils Wide Research, an experimental feature that lets users on its Pro plan enlist dozens of parallelized AI agents for large-scale, high-volume tasks
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat :
Internal documents and sources detail how Cambodia's Huione Group supercharged the growth of Asia's cyberscam industry into a multi-billion dollar behemoth
The US Treasury says this Cambodian conglomerate has laundered at least $4 billion for clients including North Korean hackers and transnational crime groups.
Darktrace says it plans to invest $200M in the US in 2026, up 11% YoY, as part of a push to surpass $1B in revenue and grow its US sales to 50% of its revenue
UK-based cyber security group steps up investment plans following takeover by US private equity firm Thoma Bravo
Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. formed a strategic alliance with Teco Electric & Machinery Co., a pact that should help …
China's World AI Conference struck a stark contrast to Trump's America-first, regulation-light vision, focusing instead on global cooperation for AI safety
WIRED's @willknight.bsky.social reports from Shanghai: Evy Kwong / @evystadium : while trump works to dismantle AI guardrails, china's AI summit focused on safety—with western visitors surprised about...
A profile of Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, whose personal fortune has surged 6x over the past year to $6.1B, as the company leans into tokenized stock derivatives
Nina Bambysheva / Forbes :
How VCs are changing the way people learn about the tech industry, through a sprawling media ecosystem consisting of podcasts, newsletters, and streaming shows
Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg : Bluesky: @peark.es . X: @sarthakgh and @titanypw Bluesky: George Pearkes / @peark.es : I refuse to damage my brain by listing to VC podcast content lol X: Sar Haribhakti ...
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