Top news of the week: 08.03.2023.
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday
The high cost of cutting expenses
The unraveling of fintech darling Vise
From the outside, fintech Vise oozed success: top-notch VCs, sky-high valuations, and prodigy founders. The reality, staffers say, was very different.
The Fraud-Detection Business Has a Dirty Secret
When systems designed to catch welfare cheats go wrong, people find themselves trapped between secretive governments and even more opaque private companies.
Bolt Billionaire Ryan Breslow Hired A Convicted Fraudster To Build His Social Impact DAO
The billionaire cofounder of payments startup Bolt Financial is suing the developer of his previously undisclosed crypto crowdfunding platform Movement, claiming he stole millions of ...
The AlleyWatch February 2023 New York Venture Capital Funding Report
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The February 2023 US Venture Capital Funding Report
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Memo: CNET EIC Connie Guglielmo, who defended CNET's use of AI tools, plans to step down to become Red Ventures' SVP of AI content strategy and editor-at-large
By Mia Sato / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
This Kicked Off With a Dinner With Elon Musk Years Ago (with Reid Hoffman)
Listen now (57 min) | The LinkedIn co-founder talks OpenAI, Microsoft, Peter Thiel & Joe Biden.