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Hacked documents reveal guide to serving Elon Musk on private jets

Transportation /

A recent breach of Berkshire Hathaway-owned private jet company NetJets has revealed a guide for flight attendants serving Elon Musk, per a Bloomberg report. The memo offers an interesting glimpse into the personal preferences of the world’s richest man. Some of the preferences are surprising for the CEO of Tesla, a company dedicated to sustainability. […]

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Google is allegedly paying some AI staff to do nothing for a year rather than join rivals

AI /

Retaining top AI talent is tough amid cutthroat competition between Google, OpenAI, and other heavyweights. Google’s AI division, DeepMind, has resorted to using “aggressive” noncompete agreements for some AI staff in the U.K. that bar them from working for competitors for up to a year, Business Insider reports. Some are paid during this time, in

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Klarna and StubHub delay IPOs because of Trump tariff turmoil

Venture /

The tentative re-opening of the IPO window is already swinging towards being closed again. With the public stock markets in a freefall after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, two of the tech industry’s highly anticipated IPOs are hitting pause, The Wall Street Journal reports: Klarna and StubHub. Both fintech Klarna and ticket marketplace StubHub released

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CaaStle board confirms financial distress, furloughing employees

Startups /

CaaStle, a startup that launched in 2011 as a plus-sized clothing subscription service and later became an inventory monetization platform for clothing retailers, is facing financial difficulties, the company confirmed to TechCrunch following a report by Axios. Citing a letter from the board, Axios reported that the company is almost out of money, CEO Christine

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Alphabet’s AI drug discovery platform Isomorphic Labs raises $600M from Thrive

Biotech & Health /

Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug-discovery platform that was spun out of Google’s DeepMind in 2021, has raised external capital for the first time. The $600 million round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from GV and existing investor Alphabet, Google’s parent, it said.     The funding will accelerate further development of Isomorphic’s AI drug

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Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets

Media & Entertainment /

Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe — claiming the results show that news is essentially worthless to Google’s ad business. The search giant conducted the test because European copyright law requires it to

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