Former Waymo CFO jumps to self-driving startup Wayve
Elisa de Martel, who left her position as chief financial officer at Alphabet's autonomous vehicle company Waymo in January, will be based out of Silicon Valley.
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Noise wants to help everyday people become paid content creators
Marketing platform Noise is on a mission to help anyone with a smart phone make money from their content.
Google says some Pixel phone owners were hacked in zero-day attacks
The Pixel phone maker said there are indications that a bug in the phone's modem "may be under limited, targeted exploitation."
Musk’s long-time backer is giving SpaceX stock to its investors
Valor Equity Partners is handing out stock to its LPs instead of cash returns.
X will now let US users trade via Cashtags
The move closes the gap between the market discussions taking place on the timeline, and the market itself.
Hear why Science Corp CEO Max Hodak says the screen era is ending at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At this year's Disrupt, Science Corp CEO Max Hodak will present a vision for screen-free interfaces that can even offer medical help. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass.
May Mobility is going public in a $1.4B SPAC deal
The deal could net the asset-light robotaxi company more than $300 million in funding.
AWS bets that AI agents need an inbox, not another chat window
AWS is betting that AI agents need a different interface as they move beyond answering prompts and start working autonomously in the background. <p class="wp-block-paragra
How to keep AI-generated code aligned with your standards
One of the first questions I ask devops organizations is to walk me through their development and operations standards. What are the <a href="https://drive.starcio.com/2025/01/im
Hundreds of OpenAI agents attack RubyGems platform
A swarm of hundreds of OpenAI agents uploaded “malicious packages” to RubyGems and tried to steal API keys, the Ruby community gem hosting service revealed Friday. <p clas
Amazon gives its workers a raise of $1 per hour
Amazon's investment in these raises comes out to over $1.5 billion, or about 0.06% of its $2.68 trillion market cap.
Big Tech’s AI safety rift signals disruption and disparity for enterprises
A growing divide among leading AI companies over how to secure increasingly powerful models is beginning to translate into challenges for enterprise IT, with implications for how
Hackers publish thousands of drivers’ data after breaching Florida motor vehicle database
The ShinyHunters gang leaked the files online after saying the Florida state agency did not pay their ransom demand.
Pulley, a Carta rival, is shutting down
Cap table management platform Pulley, backed by General Catalyst, Stripe, and Founders Fund, announced that it's closing shop in December.
Automattic’s interim CEO and legal chief signed reciprocal severance deals during Mullenweg’s brief ouster
CFO Mark Davies and legal chief Andy Missan signed each other’s severance agreements while Matt Mullenweg was on leave, providing a year of salary and additional equity vesting if their departures qua
We are all managers now
Career paths for software developers have always been a touch problematic. Early on, you started out as a junior developer, and maybe there
Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years’ worth of nuclear fuel
Fluxnium's fibers can extract uranium directly from seawater, which has enough of the nuclear fuel to power thousands of generations.
India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network
India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments made through UPI starting October 15.
How to get better results from local LLMs with Ollama
If you like the idea of running an LLM on your own computer but tried awhile ago and were disappointed, it may be time to give it another chance. <p class="wp-block-paragr
The best IDE for agentic AI may not be an IDE at all
Steve Yegge is not the shy and retiring type, so when he wants recommendations on how others are managing 10 to 20 (or more) coding agents, he <a href="https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/
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