Ryan Breslow is back as CEO of fintech Bolt, after years of controversy

Ryan Breslow is once again the CEO of Bolt, the fintech company told TechCrunch on Wednesday. Bolt shared a communication that recently went out to investors in which Breslow wrote that “following a challenging few years,” he had been reinstated as Bolt’s CEO with “unanimous approval” of the board of the one-click checkout company. Justin […]
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Amazon’s One Medical CEO stepping down after less than two years at helm

Green was tapped to lead One Medical shortly after Amazon completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the company.

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Hyundai pairs up with Yandex spinoff Avride to develop robotaxis

Hyundai Motor Company and Avride have agreed to jointly develop autonomous vehicles in a tie up that will deepen the relationship between the two companies. The deal will focus on autonomous vehicle technology designed for robotaxis. The two companies will also look into other use cases for the technology, including autonomous delivery services using Avride’s […]
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Justice Department charges Chinese hackers-for-hire linked to Treasury breach

The individuals are accused of hacking over 100 U.S. organizations over the course of a decade
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CrowdStrike slumps 10% on weak earnings outlook, overhang from outage costs

CrowdStrike shares dropped 10% after issuing weak earnings guidance and signaled ongoing pressure from its global IT outage in July.

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The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0

Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.

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Turing Award Goes to A.I. Pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.

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Growth at all costs is destroying the internet. PR maven Ed Zitron says that’s an opportunity for startups

If you spend any amount of time online, you probably noticed that your user experience keeps getting worse.  Websites are waterlogged with autoplay ads, pop-ups, and tracking scripts. Customer service chatbots are useless, despite the promises of generative AI. Social media algorithms boost rage-bait to keep you scrolling and engaged. Dating apps hide all the […]
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EU must ‘fully’ apply its market fairness rulebook on Google, search rivals urge

The European Union is once again being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The big aim of the EU’s flagship competition reform — which came into force last spring — was to level the digital playing field by forcing platform giants into fairer dealing with rivals and […]
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Ex-Facebook engineer is tackling clinician burnout at Freed after seeing wife’s challenges

Freed, a health-tech startup focused on AI scribing, announced a $30 million funding round on Wednesday, led by Sequoia Capital on Wednesday.

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