Elon Musk’s legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab’s founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.
Bumble is getting rid of the swipe, CEO says
”We are going to be saying goodbye to the swipe,” CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said.
Tome, another Goodreads book-tracker rival, shuts down
Built on the back of the sizable and influential BookTok community — creators who discuss and review books on TikTok — the app offered readers a place to chronicle and rate their books, get recommendations, and even add photos of things like favorite quotes or memes, or share playlists that match the book’s vibes.
Could Lovable’s automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures?
Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is offering employees an automatic 10% raise as a way to sidestep classic corporate politics.
Hackers hack victims hacked by other hackers
An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the victims’ systems.
Kalshi doubles valuation in 5 months, hitting $22 billion
Prediction market startup Kalshi has raised a $1 billion Series F round led by Coatue.
Jeff Bezos rep leaves Slate Auto’s board
The head of Bezos’ family office appears to have stepped down at some point in the last few months, around the time Bezos became increasingly in his robotics firm Project Prometheus.
How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic’s Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox.
Google’s $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
The Gemini-powered health coach will act as a combination fitness coach, sleep expert, and health and wellness advisor.
Google unveils Whoop-like screenless Fitbit Air
The device comes with health and fitness tracking like 24/7 heart rate, heart rhythm monitoring with Afib alerts, SpO2, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more.