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Just over three years after becoming Sequoia Capital’s top leader, Roelof Botha is stepping down from his senior management role at the storied venture capital firm. The company announced Tuesday that partners Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will replace him as co-stewards. Lin joined the storied company in 2010 and has led major investments in category-defining companies such as Airbnb, DoorDash, and Kalshi. Meanwhile, Pat Grady has been a partner for nearly 19 years and has led Sequoia’s growth-stage investments since 2015, supporting iconic companies such as ServiceNow, OpenAI, and legal AI platform Harvey. Botha assumed the role of supreme…
Sora, OpenAI’s AI video generator, is now officially available for Android users in the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Sora was first released as an iOS app in September and quickly rose to the top of the App Store charts, racking up more than 1 million downloads in one week. Sora, which has arrived on the Google Play Store, is expected to attract a larger user base and is likely to see a surge in downloads. The Android version retains all the features of the iOS version, including the “Cameos” feature that allows users to…
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has voted against Tesla’s proposal to give CEO Elon Musk a payout worth $1 trillion. The fund, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), holds a 1.14% stake in Tesla worth about $11.7 billion, according to an interim report in June. “While we appreciate the significant value created under Mr. Musk’s visionary role, we are concerned about the total compensation, dilution, and lack of risk mitigation for key personnel, which is consistent with our views on executive compensation,” the fund said in a statement on its website. “We continue to seek constructive dialogue with Tesla on…
The initial group, which combined three prominent cybercriminal groups: Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters, created 16 Telegram channels since August 8, 2025. “Since its debut, the group’s Telegram channel has been deleted and recreated at least 16 times, with various iterations of its original name. This repeating cycle reflects platform moderation and the operator’s determination to maintain this particular type of public presence despite disruption,” Level Blue company Trustwave SpiderLabs said in a report shared with Hacker News. Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH) emerged in early August and launched data extortion attacks against organizations, including those that had been using Salesforce…
Journalists in Europe have found it “easy” to spy on senior European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in the world. Netzpolitik reports that EU officials are “concerned” about the trade in mobile phone location data of citizens and officials and have issued new guidance to staff to combat tracking. Reporters obtained the data set provided as a free sample by a data broker. The dataset includes 278 million location data points from millions of mobile phones across Belgium. Much of the location data…
Anthropic expects to generate up to $70 billion in revenue and $17 billion in cash flow in 2028, the Information reported. The growth forecast is being driven by rapid adoption of Anthropic’s business products, a person familiar with the company’s finances said. Reuters reported last month that Anthropic’s annual sales are expected to more than double, and possibly nearly triple, next year. The company is on track to achieve its $9 billion ARR goal by the end of 2025, and has reportedly set its 2026 ARR target at $20 billion to $26 billion. According to The Information, Anthropic expects to…
More than two months ago, Tesla announced its fourth “Master Plan.” This is a thin post about how the company wants to spread “sustainable wealth” through its future products. Unfortunately, the details are sparse, but that hasn’t stopped Tesla from making it the centerpiece of its bid to convince shareholders to hand CEO Elon Musk a $1 trillion compensation package at Thursday’s annual meeting. If the vote passes, the world’s richest man will receive the largest payout in corporate history. When “Plan” was released, its content was very vague, drawing criticism from some of the company’s biggest fans. Even Mr.…
Can bad memories be changed? In this excerpt from How to Change Your Memory (Princeton University Press, 2025), author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez describes the events that led him and his colleagues to discover that they could artificially control memory by accessing rodent brains directly.Emotions like anxiety are difficult to understand because they are often invisible to others. But they are part of everyday life. We all experience bouts of stress and anxiety on a regular basis. What if the interviewer doesn’t like me? Should I cram tonight for tomorrow’s exam? What should I say on the first date?In our…
Researchers have discovered more than 111,000 spiders living in what is believed to be the world’s largest spider web, deep inside a pitch-black cave on the Albanian-Greece border.The study, published October 17 in the journal Subterranean Biology, said the “unusual” colony consisted of a giant nest located in a permanently dark zone of the cave. The nest spans 1,140 square feet (106 square meters) along the walls of a narrow, low-ceilinged passageway near the cave entrance. It is a patchwork of thousands of individual funnel-shaped nests, the researchers noted.This is the first evidence of colonial behavior between two common spider…
November 4, 2025Ravi LakshmananCybercrime/Money Laundering Nine people have been arrested in connection with a coordinated law enforcement operation targeting a crypto money laundering network that defrauded victims of 600 million euros (approximately $688 million). According to a statement released by Eurojust today, the case took place across Cyprus, Spain and Germany between October 27 and 29, and the suspects were arrested on suspicion of involvement in fraudulent money laundering. In addition to arresting individuals from the home, authorities conducted searches and seized 800,000 euros ($918,000) in bank accounts, 415,000 euros ($476,000) in virtual currency, and 300,000 euros ($344,000) in cash.…