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VC legend Ron Conway quits Salesforce Foundation after Benioff’s National Guard comments

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Ron Conway, the founder of venture firm SV Angel, known for its early investments into Google, Airbnb, and Meta, has resigned from Salesforce Foundation, the New York Times reported. The resignation following Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff saying last week he “fully supported” President Trump and thought National Guard troops should patrol San Francisco streets. Conway […]

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A break down of the H-1B changes — and why more changes could come

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A few weeks ago, President Trump announced the application fee for an H-1B visa would increase to $10,000. The price tag sent shock waves through, especially the tech ecosystem, which heavily utilizes the visa to bring talent in from other countries.  On this week’s Equity, we sat down with Jeremy Neufeld, the director of immigration

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Startup founders say Trump’s $100K H-1B fee is a ‘talent tariff’ that will hurt innovation

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Amr Awadallah, founder of AI startup Vectara, had two reactions when he heard about changes to the H-1B visa program that raise the application fee for each visa to $100,000. He was not surprised. But he was dismayed. “I can’t afford to pay $100,000,” Awadallah told TechCrunch. He’s hired one employee on an H-1B, and

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Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trump’s UK state banquet

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Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the UK on Wednesday.  The banquet seating chart included NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang; Apple CEO Tim Cook; venture capitalist and White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks; Alphabet and Google president Ruth Porat;

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US House committee summons CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify on online radicalization

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The House Oversight Committee has requested that the CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit, and gaming platform Steam testify on October 8th about their platforms’ alleged involvement in any online “radicalization” and the “incitement to commit politically motivated acts,” according to letters sent from the House committee to the four tech CEOs.  In a statement, Rep.

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US House Oversight Committee summons CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify on online radicalization

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The House Oversight Committee has requested that the CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit, and gaming platform Steam testify on October 8 about their platforms’ alleged involvement in any online “radicalization” and the “incitement to commit politically motivated acts,” according to letters sent from the House committee to the four tech CEOs.  In a statement, Rep.

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Tech founder throws hat in California governor’s race

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Tech founder Ethan Agarwal, who has raised tens of millions of dollars from VCs across two startups, is running for the 2026 California gubernatorial seat, as reported by Axios. Axios described Agarwal as a “Democrat who believes in capitalism.” He told the outlet he’s mainly concerned about the increased cost of living and doing business

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Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website

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The Library of Congress has given a fuller explanation as to why large sections of the U.S. Constitution suddenly vanished from its official website. As TechCrunch previously reported, parts of Section 8, as well as the entirety of Section 9 and Section 10, were deleted from Article 1 of the Constitution on the U.S. government’s

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Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website

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Several sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution appear to have been removed from the official U.S. government website, as pointed out by sleuths on the internet and as seen by TechCrunch.  The changes were made in the past month, according to the Wayback Machine, which shows the full original text on Congress’ website

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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent

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The director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism.  On Wednesday, Ron Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, one of the

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