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The White House's LinkedIn Pic Is Now Donald Trump's Face. Former Staffers Are 'Frustrated'

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 18:08:00

Whenever you leave a job, you largely surrender your connection with the organization or company you worked for, but the reputational tie can often linger on -- for better or worse. Some former White House staffers feel their reputation has taken a hit this week, after the current presidential administration updated the official White House profile picture on LinkedIn to a photo of President Donald Trump. Now, in the Experience section on the LinkedIn profiles of everyone who has ever worked fo

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Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-16 18:07:34

In Brief Stripe is funding a new blockchain company called Tempo, co-founder CEO Patrick Collison announced on Thursday. Tempo is aimed at high-volume processing of stablecoins — coins that help reduce crypto’s notorious volatility because they are pegged to a stable asset like the U.S. dollar. That’s not surprising given that Stripe acquired stablecoin company Bridge. What is surprising is the eye-popping list of companies Stripe has already enlisted: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDa

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Figma's stock slumps almost 20% after first earnings report to lowest since IPO

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-16 22:03:30

Figma shares plummeted nearly 20% on Thursday, falling to the lowest price since the design software vendor's initial public offering in July after the company reported earnings for the first time as a public company. Results for the second quarter were largely in line with expectations, as Figma had issued preliminary results a little over a month ago. Revenue increased 41% from a year earlier to $249.6 million, slightly topping analysts' estimates of $248.8 million, according to LSEG. Analys

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Apple’s winning AI strategy might come down to three simple words, per CNBC

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-16 22:27:56

Earlier this week, Apple received good news when a judge ruled that its lucrative search deal with Google could continue. And per CNBC, the ruling offers Apple a simple, but winning path forward for the iPhone in AI centered around three words: “pay to play.” ‘Pay to play’ could be Apple’s AI solution, modeled after Google search deal With Apple’s $20 billion search deal with Google now seemingly safe, investors see AI as one of the company’s other significant perceived threats. But according

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Saquon Barkley is playing for equity

news.ycombinator.com Polina Pompliano 2025-10-16 19:07:08

Saquon Barkley calls me, but he’s distracted. In the background, two little voices shout “Bye, friends!” as Barkley wrangles his kids, Jada, 7, and Saquon Jr., 3, into the car. He apologizes, then explains they’re headed to an Old Spice photo shoot tied to his latest endorsement — a Saquon-branded shampoo and conditioner called “Saquon Soar.” It’s a cinematic image: one of the NFL’s biggest stars juggling dad duty and the demands of a sponsorship. But Barkley isn’t content to just cash checks a

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Roborock's new weed-killing robot mowers will save your back (and time)

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-17 02:38:23

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Roborock has introduced its first robot lawnmowers. Three models will be available, each with a different purpose. The company hasn't revealed pricing or release date yet. Roborock is headed outdoors. The company best known for its robot vacuum cleaners (including the recent viral one with a mechanical arm that picks up small objects) has unveiled its first robot lawnmower. In an announcement today

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DeepSeek Is Working on an AI Agent. Will It Be Better Than ChatGPT?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 23:38:00

China-based DeepSeek is working on developing a new agentic generative AI model, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. Agentic AI is the latest wave of AI technology. AI agents are a kind of digital assistant; they can complete tasks without a lot of human oversight. AI agents can do anything from coding to ordering you a pizza, as my colleague Imad Khan recently tested. Details about the specifics of the DeepSeek agent model are still fuzzy. An August update to DeepSeek's V3 model was

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OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-17 02:19:46

OpenAI says it’s developing an AI-powered hiring platform to connect businesses and employees, a service that would put the outfit in close competition with LinkedIn. The product is called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, and the company expects to launch the service by mid-2026, an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch. OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo announced the new endeavor in a blog post Thursday, saying the company will “use AI to help find the perfect matches between what companies need an

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Ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's Sierra is the latest $10 billion AI startup

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-17 06:49:47

Bret Taylor, chairman of the board of directors of OpenAI, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2025. Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has just joined an exclusive club: The company sports a new $10 billion valuation after raising $350 million in fresh capital. Sierra is one of just a handful of AI startups, including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Safe Superintelligence and Thinking M

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Elon Musk Denies He Was Snubbed From Guest List at White House AI Event

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-17 06:50:31

An upcoming White House event on AI will feature some of Silicon Valley’s most influential executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Notably absent from the guest list, however, is Elon Musk. That’s according to The Hill, which reported on Wednesday that, in addition to Zuck, Cook, and Gates, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Musk’s avowed enemy , has also been invited. Musk, however, claims that he was, in fact, invited to the event, but it

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Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-17 06:56:29

Waymo has been cleared to serve its first airpot in California: San Jose Mineta International. The company announced Thursday that it will start testing its robotaxis there in the coming months, and that it plans to start offering commercial rides by the end of the year. The company has spent years working toward serving airports in its home state. Waymo was going back-and-forth with officials at San Francisco’s airport back in 2023 but was rebuffed. Earlier this year, though, Waymo was granted

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DeepSeek Is Working on an AI Agent: Will It Be Better Than ChatGPT?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 09:38:49

China-based DeepSeek is working on developing a new agentic generative AI model, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. Agentic AI is the latest wave of AI technology. AI agents are a kind of digital assistant; they can complete tasks without a lot of human oversight. AI agents can do anything from coding to ordering you a pizza, as my colleague Imad Khan recently tested. Details about the specifics of the DeepSeek agent model are still fuzzy. An August update to DeepSeek's V3 model was

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Musk will not attend Trump tech CEO dinner at White House

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-17 14:59:56

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, arrives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for an inaugural event in the White House's renovated Rose Garden on Thursday. Invitees include Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, according to a list conf

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Company Replaces Customer Support With AI, Then Panics and Forces Engineers to Work the Phones as the AI Fails

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-17 13:05:26

Of all the startups that have come and gone, the personal finance company Klarna might be one of the best bellwethers for the finance industry overall. Specializing in "buy now pay later" microloans — tiny cash advances for purchases that don't need to go through a bank — Klarna hit app stores at a time when US consumer debt was climbing toward a record high. Now a giant of the personal finance landscape, the billion-dollar company recently reported a jaw dropping 17 percent default rate on its

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New TP-Link zero-day surfaces as CISA warns other flaws are exploited

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-17 14:21:19

TP-Link has confirmed the existence of an unpatched zero-day vulnerability impacting multiple router models, as CISA warns that other router flaws have been exploited in attacks. The zero-day vulnerability was discovered by independent threat researcher Mehrun (ByteRay), who noted that he first reported it to TP-Link on May 11, 2024. The Chinese networking equipment giant confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is currently investigating the exploitability and exposure of the flaw. Though a pat

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LinkedIn is cracking down on fake recruiters and executive impersonators - here's how

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-17 14:01:00

LinkedIn / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways LinkedIn might verify your next job update to the site. LinkedIn will verify companies, recruiters, and executives. The news comes amid rampant job and recruitment scams. The job market is tough enough already -- but recruitment-related scams make it tougher. On Thursday, LinkedIn outlined several ways it's making its platform more trustworthy to mitigate scams and executive

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Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

news.ycombinator.com Rachel 2025-10-17 14:32:24

Tempo was started by Stripe and Paradigm, with design input from Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Lead Bank, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more. If you’re a company with large, real-world economic flows and would like to help shape the future of Tempo, get in touch.

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Senator Says Radioactive Shrimp Will Turn You Into the Alien From ‘Alien’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-17 14:00:59

U.S. health officials have issued several recalls of shrimp in recent weeks over concerns about radioactive material. And now a sitting U.S. Senator has taken the opportunity to warn people in the most dire terms possible. With help from a visual aide, of course. Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, took to the Senate floor with a giant poster board featuring a screenshot from the classic 1979 film Alien on Wednesday. And he wants you to know that Americans are going to look like the

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‘Talamasca: The Secret Order’ Promises Vampire Intrigue Galore in New Trailer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-17 14:45:26

While Interview With the Vampire fans will have to wait until 2026 to pick back up with that series—retitled The Vampire Lestat for its rock n’ roll-infused third season—Anne Rice’s world expands in just a few weeks with Talamasca: The Secret Order. AMC has just shared a full trailer after that teaser in July, and it teases supernatural secrets, psychic menace, and danger-filled dark rooms. Talamasca runs just six episodes, but AMC is calling it a “first season,” so make of that what you will.

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The Download: unnerving AI avatars, and Trump’s climate gift to China

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-17 15:10:00

—Rhiannon Williams Earlier this summer, I visited the AI company Synthesia to give it what it needed to create a hyperrealistic AI-generated avatar of me. The company’s avatars are a decent barometer of just how dizzying progress has been in AI over the past few years, so I was curious just how accurately its latest AI model, introduced last month, could replicate me. I found my avatar as unnerving as it is technically impressive. It’s slick enough to pass as a high-definition recording of a

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How Anthropic's enterprise dominance fueled its monster $183B valuation

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-17 18:13:14

PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic is valued at $183 billion after a new funding round. The company currently serves over 300,000 enterprise customers. A marketing emphasis on safety could be a major driving factor. Anthropic is soaring, and the popularity of its tools among enterprise clients is providing much of the lift. The AI start-up announced on Tuesday that its latest funding round raised $13 bill

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5 Things to Know About Why Salesforce Stock is Cratering

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-17 18:08:57

Salesforce stock was down almost 8% this morning after a disappointing earnings report last night. The company shared third quarter revenue forecast that came in below expectations and investors worry that has to do with AI monetization problems. The company is all-in on AI, but Wall Street’s patience for the ROI countdown is running thin it seems. At least it’s running thin enough that even though second-quarter revenue came in pretty good and the company shared a $20 billion increase to its

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Should the Company Trucks Go Electric? Depends on When You Charge

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-17 18:30:00

Should the company switch its trucks, cars, and vans to electric? It’s a question that plenty of businesses operating fleets of vehicles—in industries like delivery, health care, cable companies, and utilities—are thinking through. Eighty-seven percent of fleet operators polled by Cox Automotive last year said they were expecting to bring aboard some battery-powered vehicles in the next five years. Their top concerns weren’t that different from everyday drivers’: Businesses aren’t sure how to k

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Tech companies ‘be on alert,’ NAACP says with new guiding principles for data centers

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-17 18:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. One of the top civil rights organizations in the US is putting the tech industry “on alert,” issuing a call to action for communities to demand more accountability from companies building

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Captions rebrands as Mirage, expands beyond creator tools to AI video research

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-17 18:39:15

Captions, an AI-powered video creation and editing app for content creators that has secured over $100 million in venture capital to date at a valuation of $500 million, is rebranding to Mirage, the company announced on Thursday. The new name reflects the company’s broader ambitions to become an AI research lab focused on multimodal foundational models specifically designed for short-form video content for platforms like TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. The company believes this approach will disting

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Cloud provider Lambda may be gearing up for an IPO

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-17 18:43:06

In Brief Cloud provider Lambda might be following rival CoreWeave to the public markets. Lambda, an AI infrastructure company offering on-demand GPUs, has hired bankers for an upcoming IPO, according to reporting from The Information. Lambda has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Citi for a public listing that could happen as early as the first half of 2026. Lambda did not respond to a request for comment. The company has raised more than $1.7 billion in funding, according to

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Atlassian is buying Arc maker The Browser Company for $610 million

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 22:52:37

The Browser Company — the maker of the Arc and AI-centric Dia browsers — is set to have a new owner. Atlassian is buying it for around $610 million in an all-cash deal , which it expects to close in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2026 (i.e. by the end of the 2025 calendar year). According to The Browser Company, it will continue to operate independently as it builds Dia. A private beta for the browser started in June . Arc (a well-regarded browser on which the company has ended active de

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Figma's stock slumps 18% after first earnings report to lowest since IPO

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-18 02:51:22

Figma shares plummeted nearly 20% on Thursday, falling to the lowest price since the design software vendor's IPO in July after the company reported earnings for the first time as a public company. Results for the second quarter were largely inline with expectations, as Figma had issued preliminary results a little over a month ago. Revenue increased 41% from a year earlier to $249.6 million, slightly topping analyst estimates of $248.8 million, according to LSEG. Analysts at Piper Sandler des

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LinkedIn will require recruiters and executives to verify their identity to cut down on scams

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-18 02:00:40

LinkedIn will now require some users to verify their identity before they change job titles in an attempt to cut down on scams on the platform. The new identity verification rules will specifically apply to executives and recruiters who interact with job seekers or represent a company in one form or another. As part of these changes, LinkedIn says users who add or update their title to anything recruiter-related (recruiter, talent acquisition, etc.) will have to verify their workplace on their

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LinkedIn's new tools just made it tougher to pad your resume

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-18 02:32:23

picture alliance / picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways LinkedIn might verify your next job update to the site. LinkedIn will verify companies, recruiters, and executives. The news comes amid rampant job and recruitment scams. The job market is tough enough already -- but recruitment-related scams make it tougher. On Thursday, LinkedIn outlined several ways it's making its platform more trustworthy to mitigate scams a

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The White House's LinkedIn Pic Is Now Donald Trump's Face. Former Staffers Are 'Frustrated'

Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain

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Apple’s winning AI strategy might come down to three simple words, per CNBC

Saquon Barkley is playing for equity

Roborock's new weed-killing robot mowers will save your back (and time)

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Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

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Musk will not attend Trump tech CEO dinner at White House

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New TP-Link zero-day surfaces as CISA warns other flaws are exploited

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Senator Says Radioactive Shrimp Will Turn You Into the Alien From ‘Alien’

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Tech companies ‘be on alert,’ NAACP says with new guiding principles for data centers

Captions rebrands as Mirage, expands beyond creator tools to AI video research

Cloud provider Lambda may be gearing up for an IPO

Atlassian is buying Arc maker The Browser Company for $610 million

Figma's stock slumps 18% after first earnings report to lowest since IPO

LinkedIn will require recruiters and executives to verify their identity to cut down on scams

LinkedIn's new tools just made it tougher to pad your resume

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