This VC's best advice for building a founding team: This season on Build Mode, we're diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team. To kick off season two, Isabelle Johannessen is joined by Yuri Sagalov, managing director at General Catalyst and former founder, YC partner, and seed investor at Wayfinder Ventures. Sagalov has worked with hundreds of pre-seed and seed-stage companies and has seen firsthand the best (and worst) ways to hire in the early days. Read More |
Current is a new RSS reader that's more like a river than an inbox: Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download. Read More |
Sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer information: The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including order details and customer service inquiries. Read More |
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The boys' club no one was supposed to write about: Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that's been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men, at the upper echelons of tech, quietly raising up their own networks the way powerful people have always done. Read More |
Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens: Meta's CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms. Read More |
OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation: OpenAI is reportedly getting close to closing a $100 billion deal, with backers including Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft. The deal would value the ChatGPT-maker at $850 billion. Read More |
Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025: Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous years. Read More |
FBI says ATM 'jackpotting' attacks are on the rise, and netting hackers millions in stolen cash: The FBI says hacks that trick ATMs into spitting out cash on demand are rising, with hundreds of attacks in the past year alone netting hackers millions in stolen bills. Read More |
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Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India's big AI summit: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of unity, all executives onstage obliged, except OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who held their hands conspicuously apart. Read More |
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