Tootfinder

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

Spannender Job:
Schätze heben!
Fundraising bei der Deutschen Seemannsmission für die bundesweite und weltweite Arbeit
Bitte weitersagen
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.

Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
— by @…
🕵️

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

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.

Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance tech exclusively to governments, reviving claims of state spying in Greece after being sentenced last month (Eliza Triantafillou/OCCRP)
https://www.occrp.org/en/news/convicted-spywa…

Convicted Spyware Dealer Links Greek Government to Surveillance Scandal
The founder of the commercial spyware firm Intellexa, recently convicted in a landmark wiretapping trial, says his company sells its technology exclusively to governments—an admission opposition leaders claim proves the state orchestrated a massive domestic espionage campaign.

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.

NYC-based Nas.com, an AI platform founded by content creator Nas Daily that helps solo entrepreneurs build online stores, raised a $27M Series A led by Khosla (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/nas-daily-f…

This startup raised $27 million to help 'solopreneurs' run their businesses with AI. Read the pitch deck.
Nuseir Yassin's startup, Nas.com, uses AI tools to help entrepreneurs with a range of business functions like marketing and storefront design.

Former Mercor staffers describe "operational mishaps" at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbe…

Inside Messy, Fast-Growing Mercor, Run By Youngest-Ever Self-Made Billionaires
Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee stealing money, security blunders and cultural growing pains.