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Here are the letters that convinced Google and Apple to keep TikTok online

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-08-12 11:26:55

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. A Freedom of Information Act request has produced letters that the US Department of Justice sent to Google, Apple, Amazon, and several other companies in order to assuage their concerns about breaking a law that banned US web services from working with TikTok. The documents — obtained by Zhaocheng Anthony Tan, a Google shareholder

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Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley startups can’t stop hiring?

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-12 12:00:35

In the last week, social media users have shared dozens of stories about encounters with Soham Parekh, a software engineer who seems to have been simultaneously working at multiple Silicon Valley startups — unbeknownst to the companies — for the last several years. But who is Parekh, how did he pull off his career as a serial moonlighter, and why can’t Silicon Valley get enough of him? Origins of virality The saga all started when Suhail Doshi — CEO of image generation startup Playground AI —

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Writer CEO May Habib to take the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-13 20:00:00

AI agents are reshaping how work gets done across industries, and at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, one of the leading voices in that transformation is stepping onto the AI Stage. May Habib, CEO and co-founder of Writer, will join us in San Francisco, October 27-29, for a fireside chat that dives deep into how enterprises are operationalizing AI — at scale and with speed. With more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders attending the event, this session is set to be one of the most timely and talked-about

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Pay Up, AI Bot: That's the Message From a Key Company in How the Internet Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-13 23:08:00

AI companies might find it harder to access the entire web to train their large language models after the internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare said this week it would block AI data crawlers by default. It's the latest front to open in an ongoing fight between the creators of content and the AI developers who use that content to train generative AI models. In court, authors and content creators are suing major AI companies for compensation, saying copyrighted content was used without perm

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Peter Thiel and His Goons Are Launching Their Own Bank (Yes, It has a Tolkien-Inspired Name)

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-15 08:35:39

Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse in 2023 left a hole in the tech industry. For years, the bank poured money into the Bay Area’s riskier startups, allowing those companies to pursue their various “disruptive” aims. Eventually, mismanagement led that business model to collapse. Now, billionaire Palantir founder Peter Thiel and several of his pals want to fill the void left by SVB by launching their own bank dedicated to backing the industry’s riskier bets. Multiple outlets have reported that the ne

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Cloudflare just changed the internet, and it's bad news for the AI giants

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-16 12:23:00

iStock / Getty Images Plus The major internet Content Delivery Network (CDN), Cloudflare, has declared war on AI companies. Starting July 1, Cloudflare now blocks by default AI web crawlers accessing content from your websites without permission or compensation. The change addresses a real problem. My own small site, where I track all my stories, Practical Technology, has been slowed dramatically at times by AI crawlers. It's not just me. Numerous website owners have reported that AI crawlers,

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Cloudflare declares war on AI crawlers - and the stakes couldn't be higher

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-17 12:11:37

D-Keine/Getty The major Internet Content Delivery Network (CDN), Cloudflare, has declared war on AI companies. Starting July 1, Cloudflare now blocks by default AI web crawlers accessing content from your websites without permission or compensation. The change addresses a real problem. My own small site, where I track all my stories, Practical Technology, has been slowed dramatically at times by AI crawlers. It's not just me. Numerous website owners have reported that AI crawlers, such as Open

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Public companies bought more bitcoin than ETFs did for the third quarter in a row

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-08-18 16:49:15

In this article MARA KDLY PCAPU GME BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ozan Kose | Afp | Getty Images Corporate treasuries have surpassed ETFs in bitcoin buying for a third consecutive quarter as more companies try to benefit from the MicroStrategy playbook in a more crypto-friendly regulatory environment. Public companies acquired about 131,000 coins in the second quarter, growing their bitcoin balance 18%, according to data provider Bitcoin Treasuries. ETFs showed an

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US disrupts North Korean IT worker "laptop farm" scheme in 16 states

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-18 16:56:51

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced coordinated law enforcement actions against North Korean government's fund raising operations using remote IT workers. North Korean workers use stolen or fake identities created with the help of AI tools to get hired by more than 100 companies in the U.S., believing they employed experts from other Asian countries or the U.S. Their salaries are usually sent to the DPRK regime. According to court documents, two individuals, Kejia Wang and Zhenxing

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Tech Companies Have a New Thing to Waste Money On: ‘Etiquette Coaches’ for Gen-Z Staff

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-18 20:30:30

A new report from The San Francisco Standard claims that Bay Area companies are investing in a service that can alleviate some of the stresses caused by hiring younger employees: etiquette experts. These experts are making good money explaining to new hires why it’s inappropriate to show up to work in sweatpants or put your feet on the table during a meeting. The story quotes women employed in this apparently blossoming field, including Rosalinda Randall, a coach from Marin who claims that inqu

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Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2025-08-19 04:00:57

However, such systems don’t provide the same opportunities for monetization and credit as search engines historically have. AI models draw from a great deal of data on the web to generate their outputs, but these data sources are often not credited, limiting the creators’ ability to make money from their work. Search engines that feature AI-generated answers may include links to original sources, but they may also reduce people’s interest in clicking through to other sites and could even usher i

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Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-08-19 04:00:00

Last year, internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare launched tools enabling its customers to block AI scrapers. Today the company has taken its fight against permissionless scraping several steps further. It has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program that lets customers charge AI companies to scrape their websites. Web crawlers have trawled the internet for information for decades. Without them, people would lose vitally i

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US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-08-20 04:13:05

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea’s money-making operations, which rely on undercover remote IT workers inside American tech companies to raise funds for the regime’s nuclear weapons program, as well as to steal data and cryptocurrency. As part of the DOJ’s multi-state effort, the government announced the arrest and indictment of U.S. national Zhenxing “Danny” Wang, who allegedly ran a years-long fraud scheme fro

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14.ai (YC W24) hiring founding engineers in SF to build a Zendesk alternative

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 08:00:57

We are an intense, tightly-knit team based in the heart of San Francisco. Our customers range from fast-growing startups to established enterprise companies, and we obsess over listening to each of them and helping them succeed. Our development pillars are security, reliability and performance, combined with pragmatism to always find working solutions and be ultra-responsive to customer feedback and requests. Working both at the infrastructure and product level, we strive to build correct, futur

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Canada caves to Trump and rescinds its digital service tax on big tech

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-21 04:00:45

Canada has folded in its battle with US President Donald Trump over tariffs by cancelling its proposed digital services tax (DST) on big tech companies, the government announced. On Friday, Trump ended trade talks over the levy, which he called "a direct and blatant attack on our country." However, discussions have resumed now that the DST is gone, according to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The DST has been in effect since last year but Canada was due to collect the first payments totall

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Is Crypto in a Bubble (Again)?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-21 10:32:48

The crypto world is buzzing. If you ask a true believer, they’ll say this is just the beginning. Ask a skeptic, and they’ll swear we’re watching a bubble inflate in real time. One that could pop any second. I saw the excitement firsthand at a crypto event in Brooklyn last week. The bar was packed. People were animated. It felt like a flashback to 2020 and 2021, when crypto fever gripped everyone from twenty-something retail traders to grandparents. Back then, it was all about Bitcoin, flashy NF

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Why AI will eat McKinsey’s lunch — but not today

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-08-21 11:10:16

Navin Chaddha, managing director of the 55-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm Mayfield, is betting big on AI’s ability to transform people-heavy industries like consulting, law, and accounting. The veteran investor, whose wins include Lyft, Poshmark, and HashiCorp, recently discussed at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Menlo Park why he believes “AI teammates” can create software-like margins in traditionally labor-intensive sectors, and why startups should right now target neglected markets

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G7 agrees to exempt U.S. multinationals from global minimum tax

news.ycombinator.com Authors 2025-08-21 05:02:04

The Group of Seven nations said on Saturday (June 28, 2025) they have agreed to exempt U.S. multinational companies from a global minimum tax imposed by other countries — a win for President Donald Trump's government, which pushed hard for the compromise. The deal will see U.S. companies benefit from a "side-by-side" solution under which they will only be taxed at home, on both domestic and foreign profits, the G7 said in a statement released by Canada, which holds the group's rotating presiden

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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-21 04:51:36

In Brief An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators. The letter argues that authors’ work has been “stolen” by AI companies: “Rather than paying writers a small percentage of the money our work makes for them, someone else will be paid for a technology built on our unpaid labor.” Among other c

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From pilot to profit: The real path to scalable, ROI-positive AI

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-08-21 20:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. Three years after ChatGPT launched the generative AI era, most enterprises remain trapped in pilot purgatory. Despite billions in AI investments, the majority of corporate AI initiatives

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Riot turns to sports betting to help fund its esports leagues

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-08-22 04:15:17

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. As the esports industry searches for new sources of revenue, Riot Games has opened up its League of Legends and Valorant esports leagues to sports betting sponsorships. The decision will permit tier one organizations – or the highest level of professional players – in the North and South America and European esports leagues

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The First Week of Tesla's Robotaxis Has Been a Disaster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-22 07:12:18

While autonomous vehicle companies like Waymo and Baidu clock hundreds of thousands of self-driving taxi trips, Tesla is lagging far behind. We're now one week into the EV giant's robotaxi pilot in Austin — a program Elon Musk has teased for over a decade — and it's going about as horribly as expected. Citizens who've braved the robotaxi program have flooded social media this week with videos and tales of their harrowing experiences. The footage ranges from one Tesla veering into an oncoming l

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Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 14:44:07

I'm a self taught dev that worked my butt off and endured years of "we promote internally" lies at multiple companies to finally get paid to write code. I've been job hunting since I was laid off last November, and I'm just over it. Everyone is unicorn hunting for X years in Y framework and if you don't have exactly that you need not apply. Meanwhile FAANG, Microsoft, and Intel keep handing out pink slips. I still love coding, I've spent most of my non "job applications and existential dread"

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Lessons learned from agentic AI leaders reveal critical deployment strategies for enterprises

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-08-23 23:07:32

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Companies are rushing AI agents into production — and many of them will fail. But the reason has nothing to do with their AI models. On day two of VB Transform 2025, industry leaders shared hard-won lessons from deploying AI agents at scale. A panel moderated by Joanne Chen, general partner at Foundation Capital, included Shawn Malhotra,

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AI usage is stalling out at work from lack of education and support

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-08-24 20:02:27

Deagreez / Getty Images A new survey of enterprise use of artificial intelligence released Thursday by the Boston Consulting Group shows the technology has stalled in its deployment, and the most-hyped new area, "agents," has seen low adoption within companies so far. The obstacles to greater AI usage are primarily a lack of training, limited access to tools, and insufficient encouragement from management, the group states. These obstacles are raising concerns about job loss and lack of oversi

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Jon McNeill brings the operator’s playbook to TechCrunch All Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-25 04:00:00

Founders are often told to chase product-market fit before anything else, but what if scaling too soon, too fast, is what’s really holding them back? At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, Jon McNeill, CEO and co-founder of DVx Ventures (and former president of Tesla and COO of Lyft), will take the Scale Stage to flip the script on conventional startup growth advice. His session, “The Operator’s Playbook for Building and Scaling Sustainable Companies,” explores why the next generat

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Adopt or die? How Southeast Asian small businesses are using AI to stay competitive

cnbc.com Bernice Ooi 2025-08-25 22:54:19

ASEAN member nations' flags outside the Pullman Hotel, the venue for the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' retreat meeting in Luang Prabang, Laos, in January 2024. Tang Chhin Sothytang Chhin Sothy | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. and China are usually top of mind when it comes to artificial intelligence and generative AI. But Southeast Asia's small businesses have huge potential that shouldn't be ignored, experts say. In fact, it's a matter of survival, according to Jochen Wirtz, a professor of marketing a

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Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-26 03:18:28

As AI companies rave about how their products are revolutionizing productivity, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants the tech industry to put its money where its automated mouth is. In a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Sanders argued that the time saved with AI tools should be given back to workers to spend with their families. “Technology is gonna work to improve us, not just the people who own the technology and the CEOs of large corporations,” Sanders said. “You are a worker, your

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Boston Consulting Group: To unlock enterprise AI value, start with the data you’ve been ignoring

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-08-26 16:23:54

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more When building enterprise AI, some companies are finding the hardest part is sometimes deciding what to build and how to address the various processes involved. At VentureBeat Transform 2025, data quality and governance were front and center as companies look beyond the experimental phase of AI and explore ways to productize and scale agen

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Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-27 04:18:28

As AI companies rave about how their products are revolutionizing productivity, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants the tech industry to put its money where its automated mouth is. In a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Sanders argued that the time saved with AI tools should be given back to workers to spend with their families. “Technology is gonna work to improve us, not just the people who own the technology and the CEOs of large corporations,” Sanders said. “You are a worker, your

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Latest Tech News

Here are the letters that convinced Google and Apple to keep TikTok online

Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley startups can’t stop hiring?

Writer CEO May Habib to take the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Pay Up, AI Bot: That's the Message From a Key Company in How the Internet Works

Peter Thiel and His Goons Are Launching Their Own Bank (Yes, It has a Tolkien-Inspired Name)

Cloudflare just changed the internet, and it's bad news for the AI giants

Cloudflare declares war on AI crawlers - and the stakes couldn't be higher

Public companies bought more bitcoin than ETFs did for the third quarter in a row

US disrupts North Korean IT worker "laptop farm" scheme in 16 states

Tech Companies Have a New Thing to Waste Money On: ‘Etiquette Coaches’ for Gen-Z Staff

Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites

Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation

14.ai (YC W24) hiring founding engineers in SF to build a Zendesk alternative

Canada caves to Trump and rescinds its digital service tax on big tech

Is Crypto in a Bubble (Again)?

Why AI will eat McKinsey’s lunch — but not today

G7 agrees to exempt U.S. multinationals from global minimum tax

Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

From pilot to profit: The real path to scalable, ROI-positive AI

Riot turns to sports betting to help fund its esports leagues

The First Week of Tesla's Robotaxis Has Been a Disaster

Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?

Lessons learned from agentic AI leaders reveal critical deployment strategies for enterprises

AI usage is stalling out at work from lack of education and support

Jon McNeill brings the operator’s playbook to TechCrunch All Stage

Adopt or die? How Southeast Asian small businesses are using AI to stay competitive

Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek

Boston Consulting Group: To unlock enterprise AI value, start with the data you’ve been ignoring

Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week

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