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You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left to Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/ai-st…

AI Startup You.com Appoints New CTO After Co-Founder Joins Anthropic
AI startup You.com, valued at $1.5 billion after a funding round in September, is changing its senior leadership as it focuses on helping businesses adopt AI. Bryan McCann, You.com’s CTO and co-founder, recently left to join Anthropic as a member of technical staff, according to his LinkedIn profile. Saahil Jain, one of the startup’s early engineering hires, has been promoted to CTO, said

Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
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Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
Following global pushes for age assurance by governments, Persona is increasingly being used by major online platforms to carry out biometric age checks.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced he was
"no longer MAGA,"
even though he was headed to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to ask Donald Trump for a pardon.
While guest-hosting for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Monday,
Rhodes revealed that he had broken with Trump over the war in Iran.
"We can't shut our eyes to the obvious role of the influence of Zionism in our government,
of the Israeli people, intelligence services,
Mossad, a…

Oath Keepers founder 'no longer MAGA' after Iran war: 'If I lose my pardon, so be it'
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced he was "no longer MAGA," even though he was headed to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to ask President Donald Trump for a pardon.While guest-hosting for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Monday, Rhodes revealed that he had broken with Trump over the war in Iran."We...

Vance questions the pope on just war theory hours after Leo honored its founder (Justin McLellan/National Catholic Reporter)
https://www.ncronline.org/vance-questions-pope-just-war-theory-hours-after-leo-honored-its-founder
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p10#a260416p10

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Fundraising bei der Deutschen Seemannsmission für die bundesweite und weltweite Arbeit
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https://seemannsmission.org/fundraiser-m-w-d-fuer-die-deutsche-seemannsmis/

Fundraiser (m/w/d) für die Deutsche Seemannsmission
Die Deutsche Seemannsmission e.V. (DSM) sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Referentin / einen Referenten (m/w/d) für Fundraising.

Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to $26M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-compliance-founders…

Exclusive: Repeat Founders Raise $20M For Spektr, A Fintech Compliance Startup, In NEA-Led Series A
Copenhagen-based Spektr, which uses AI to tackle the manual drudgery of financial compliance, raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management company to over $1B revenue, the "SaaS apocalypse", using AI agents to review expenses, and more (Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/ramp-founder-eric-glyman-on-the-many

Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
Eric Glyman is the cofounder and CEO of Ramp, the finance automation platform that now powers over 2% of all corporate spend in the US.

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and several team members; Steinberger would likely work on personal agents (Nick Wingfield/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-advanced-talks…

OpenAI in Advanced Talks to Hire OpenClaw Founder, Team
OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire Peter Steinberger, the founder of the popular open-source personal agent project OpenClaw, and several team members. The team would likely work on personal agents at OpenAI. They are also discussing setting up a foundation for the existing OpenClaw project. Meta Platforms is also aggressively courting Steinberger. Steinberger said he has not made a final

Q&A with Kalshi co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara on suing the US government, solving market making, agentic and insider trading, ethics, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/creating-prediction-markets-and-suing

Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara are the co-founders of Kalshi, the first federally regulated prediction market in the US.

Benchmark hires Jack Altman, the founder of Alt Capital and Lattice, as its fifth general partner; three Alt Capital team members will join him at Benchmark (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/benchmark-hires-jack-altman-newe…

Benchmark Hires Jack Altman as Newest General Partner
Benchmark on Tuesday said it had hired Jack Altman , the founder of early-stage firm Alt Capital and HR software company Lattice, as its fifth general partner. Benchmark—known for backing Uber and Snap in its early years—has kept its fund sizes relatively small and continued to operate as an equal partnership , even as its Silicon Valley competitors have raised multi-billion dollar funds and