- Toni Schneider takes Bluesky CEO job for the long haul
The former Automattic CEO says Bluesky's next phase is smaller, more private spaces across the AT Protocol network.
- Sebastian Jimenez is paying Rilla employees $18,000 to live near the office
The Rilla CEO ties the stipend to a 72-hour, in-office culture built around speed, sales coaching and physical proximity.
- VulcanForms hires Matthew Rose to take its manufacturing pitch deeper into national security
The Snowflake public-sector veteran joins weeks after a CTO hire and months after VulcanForms closed $220 million in new financing.
- Ohalo Hires Syngenta Seeds Veteran Justin Wolfe to Commercialize True Potato Seed
Wolfe will run commercialization as David Friedberg's plant-breeding company pushes Boosted Potato hybrids into farmer adoption.
- David Holz's Midjourney scanner video shows the machine, not the proof
Midjourney's new hardware tour makes the ultrasound spa feel real while leaving its regulatory and clinical claims unresolved.
- Straiker hires Sriram Puthucode as CRO after $64M Series A
The AI-agent security company says Puthucode will lead global revenue as it pushes into EMEA and prepares APJ leadership expansion.
- Dario Amodei's Pentagon emails show why Anthropic's military AI fight keeps escalating
Court records published by the Journal trace months of argument with Emil Michael over Claude use in autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.
- Dawn Song, Bo Li and Sanmi Koyejo join Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta is hiring three Virtue AI founders and other team members as agent security becomes core infrastructure for frontier labs.
- Ryan Cohen pulls his GameStop pay plan as the eBay bid becomes an incentive test
The Chewy cofounder is trying to remove a clean objection from critics: that GameStop's takeover push could enrich him personally.
- Mark Pincus turns Zynga's product doctrine into a founder manual
The Zynga founder is using his new book and podcast circuit to push a blunt message: founders win by being right before they scale.
- Robot.com Turns Its Delivery Robot Base Toward Workplace Humanoids
Felipe Chavez is using Kiwibot's deployment muscle to sell R-noid into restaurants, logistics sites and healthcare, with early autonomy still limited.
- Ocado's board is testing a founder handoff after 26 years under Tim Steiner
Sky News says Vonage CEO Niklas Heuveldop has been sounded out for Ocado's top job, but no appointment has been confirmed.
- John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic
The AlphaFold scientist gives Dario and Daniela Amodei a rare bridge between frontier models, safety research, and AI-for-science credibility.
- Noam Shazeer's OpenAI move puts architecture back at the center of the AI race
The Transformer co-author and Character.AI co-founder is leaving Google's Gemini effort less than two years after Google brought him back.
- YC Names Christopher Golda and Grey Baker General Partners
The appointments add two YC-linked operators to Garry Tan's senior bench as YC runs more batches and competes earlier for technical founders.
- Boz tells Meta employees its AI reorg rollout was 'atrocious'
Meta is trying to repair morale inside a 6,500-person AI unit formed in March after employees pushed back on forced transfers and lower-status work.
- Carmen Li is trying to make GPU compute trade like a commodity
Silicon Data is building the benchmark layer, Compute Exchange is building the spot market, and CME has proposed compute futures with Silicon Data, subject to regulatory review.
- Dario Amodei asks Washington to treat frontier AI like aviation
Anthropic's proposal would put large model releases through testing, audits, and possible deployment holds while funding labor-displacement work.
- Report: Tim Cook sets September handoff to John Ternus after WWDC AI pitch
Apple's own WWDC pages highlight Siri AI and child-safety updates, while the CEO succession claim rests on an X post and secondary sourcing.
- Another OpenAI exit raises the retention question
Gabriel Petersson's move follows a separate OpenAI hardware-linked departure a day earlier, turning a proof-of-work hiring story into a possible canary moment.
- OpenAI's second hardware hire Clive Chan joins Anthropic
Chan said he left OpenAI after 2.4 years on its custom chip program and joined Anthropic this week to 'climb a new mountain from the bottom again.'
- Reid Hoffman to leave Microsoft's board, Bloomberg reports
Bloomberg says the LinkedIn co-founder will step down from Microsoft's board, but the timing and rationale were not available in the accessible source.
- Lindy CEO says DeepSeek V4 replaced Anthropic in production, with a caveat
Lindy claims performance improved after the move, but says Anthropic Opus may still handle some failed tasks.
- Forbes says Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker is now a billionaire
Her airport identity business is profitable, but 6% airport membership growth is pushing Clear into hospitals, stadiums and enterprise logins.