YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees about the program via an internal memo on Wednesday. Read More
Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker: Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of involvement. Read More
VC Vinod Khosla says the US government could take 10% stake in all public companies to soften the blow of AGI: Vinod Khosla has a bold vision for how society could be reconfigured to share the abundance created by AI technology. Read More
This Week's Must-Reads
Hackers threaten to leak data after breaching University of Pennsylvania to send mass emails: As the hackers plainly stated in their message ("Please stop giving us money"), this breach appears motivated to suppress alumni donations. Read More
Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant: Grammarly is renaming itself as Superhuman after acquiring the Superhuman email client in July. Read More
India's Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months on its quick house-help bet: India's appetite for instant convenience — once confined to food and grocery delivery — is expanding into house help. Read More
Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform: Canva is launching new features like Forms and email design, and it makes Affinity free for all users. Read More
It’s official: Fubo is combining with Hulu Live TV: Fubo and Disney have officially completed the transaction to combine the live sports platform with Hulu Live TV. Read More
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Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta: As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings. Read More
