Apple and Google take down malicious apps from their app stores

March 13, 2025

Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation

Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, and so on. It’s best known for its automatic license plate recognition […]

February 11, 2025

Apple and Google have pulled as many as 20 apps from their respective apps for carrying a data-stealing malware.

Plaid working with Goldman Sachs on raising $300M to $400M in tender offer

February 11, 2025

Plaid, a company that connects bank accounts to financial applications, is working with Goldman Sachs on a deal to allow early-stage investors and employees to sell existing shares, which will raise between $300 million and $400 million, Bloomberg reported citing sources. The tender offer, as such deals are called, will likely value the company lower […]

These are the investors funding Musk’s $97 billion OpenAI takeover attempt

February 11, 2025

As if Elon Musk doesn’t have enough going on, a consortium of investors led by him announced plans Monday for what appears to be a hostile takeover of OpenAI. The investor group offered nearly $97.4 billion to buy all of OpenAI’s assets and is “prepared to consider matching or exceeding higher bids,” it said in […]

These are the investors funding Musk’s $97 billion OpenAI take over attempt

February 11, 2025

Is AI making us dumb?

February 10, 2025

Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study looking at how using generative AI at work affects critical thinking skills. “Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved,” the paper states. When people rely on generative AI at work, their effort shifts […]

‘I Can’t Get Everyone to Move Here’: Why Airbnb’s CEO Is Sticking With a Once-a-Month Hybrid Schedule

February 10, 2025

Airbnb gives all its employees the freedom to work from home or the office, but there’s a catch.

Carta settles two more lawsuits that alleged sexual harassment and discrimination

February 10, 2025

Carta, which previously faced scrutiny over its workplace environment, has settled two lawsuits filed by women who used to work there.

Apple Music adds a better-sounding Spatial Audio version of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show

February 10, 2025

If you want to relive Kendrick Lamar’s headline-making Super Bowl halftime show, Apple Music just dropped a replay of the performance in its surround sound-like Spatial Audio. Since Apple currently sponsors the Super Bowl halftime show, the company has permission to republish these musical spectacles — but this is better than just a YouTube video […]

Elon Musk-led-team submits $97.4B bid for OpenAI

February 10, 2025

A team of investors led by Elon Musk submitted a $97.6 billion bid to purchase OpenAI on Monday. The news comes by way of Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, who confirmed the news with The Wall Street Journal. The unsolicited bid is the latest escalation by Musk in his war with co-founder Sam Altman, as Altman […]

‘Creating Fear’: Meta Began Laying Off ‘Low Performers’ on Monday. Here’s a Look at How Those Decisions Are Made.

February 10, 2025

Meta is laying off thousands of employees around the world.

Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation