OpenAI announced its restructuring as a public benefit corporation with the nonprofit that controls it remaining its largest shareholder. This reverses earlier plans to shift control to investors, which had drawn criticism from Elon Musk (who sued the company) and regulatory scrutiny from California and Delaware attorneys general. While Sam Altman called the change a "more understandable structure," Musk's lawyer dismissed it as a "transparent dodge" that still betrays the company's mission.
DoorDash just splurged $5 billion in five hours, buying SevenRooms ($1.2B) and Deliveroo ($3.9B). This massive spending spree transforms it from US delivery leader to global hospitality tech giant with access to 50 million monthly users across 40+ countries.
Most founders admit their early pricing is essentially a guess. Focus on learning rather than maximizing revenue before finding product-market fit. Freemium converts only 2-5% of users but can drive massive adoption, while paid pilots convert an impressive 60-90% of customers. Your pricing sends strong signals about your positioning - Superhuman launched at $30/month to appear premium, while Atlassian used rock-bottom pricing to spread virally through organizations. Treat early pricing as an experiment, run small tests, and be ready to adjust as you learn what your market actually values.
Mach CEO Ethan Thornton discussed his company's recent U.S. military contract and plans for cross-functional factories at the StrictlyVC 2025 event. Thornton aims to compete with China in weapons systems development.
Counterintuitively, focusing on a narrow audience creates more value than chasing mass appeal. By diving deep into tech CFO topics that seem "too niche," the author built a podcast that just hit “stadium level” capacity in downloads. Your staying power is the key – consistently delivering insider knowledge that resonates so deeply with your core audience that adjacent groups want in too. When you speak to the core loudly enough, everyone else starts listening.
Secondary sales give employees and investors liquidity in today's slow IPO market, but they come with a significant hidden cost. These transactions raise your company's 409A valuation by providing evidence of common stock value, which increases the exercise price for all future option grants. One executive found secondaries added $0.50 to his option price, costing him an extra $1M on his 2M share grant. When you want to sell shares, secondaries seem great. When you join a company and get options, they reduce your upside. Most employees never know these transactions happened, but they might be silently erasing millions in potential gains.
The seed ecosystem has rapidly expanded, with more funds and faster deal closing, but standing out as a VC firm remains challenging. Many successful seed funds are increasing in size, leading to larger checks and fewer diverse perspectives in funding rounds. Liquidity opportunities have grown with more secondary market activity, while some funds are adjusting their reserve strategies due to abundant capital.
"Safe Hands" people transform how founders scale their companies – these are the team members you can delegate to without worry knowing they'll execute with quality, communicate proactively, and solve problems independently regardless of their title or experience.
Google Cloud, under CEO Thomas Kurian, attributes its recent 30% growth in quarterly revenue partly to the adoption of generative AI, leveraging in-house capabilities like DeepMind and over 200 models.
Qwiet AI's Multi-AI Agent Approach revolutionizes application security by using multiple AI agents to provide enhanced code security and significantly improve efficiency between security and developer
Malware has backdoored at least 500 e-commerce sites by compromising three software providers (Tigren, Magesolution, and Meetanshi) that supply Magento-based extensions. The dormant malware, active after six years, executes malicious code in visitors' browsers to steal payment information and personal data.
The Solana Foundation recently patched a zero-day bug in Solana that could have allowed an attacker to mint unlimited Token-22 confidential tokens or steal them from other users. The vulnerability was due to some algebraic components of the ZK ElGamal Proof Program not being included in the hash used to generate a transcript for the Fiat-Shamir Transformation. Solana worked with several security partners to verify the fix and found no evidence of exploitation.
‘Venom Spider' is a threat actor that has been running a spear-phishing campaign targeting recruiters and hiring managers. Targets are sent an email containing a zip file supposedly containing the attacker's application materials. The zip file contains a JPG distractor and uses a .lnk file to download an obfuscated BAT file loader, which ultimately downloads a dropper called More_eggs.
Snowflake's CORTEX Search Service may expose sensitive data despite security policies. The post navigates how this AI-driven search tool could inadvertently reveal protected information to authorized users, illustrating a broader concern with AI integration in business tools.
In this interview with John Kindervag, creator of the Zero Trust security model in 2009, he talks about himself as a hacker and professional penetration tester in the early 2000s. Now Chief Evangelist at Illumio since 2023, he promotes Zero Trust Segmentation, challenging traditional definitions of what constitutes a "hacker.
ClickFix is a sneaky malware that tricks users into triggering attacks through innocent-looking prompts like CAPTCHAs. It evades detection by staying dormant until a real user interacts with it, making it hard for traditional security tools to spot. To catch ClickFix, interactive sandboxes effectively reveal hidden behavior and protect businesses from potential threats.
Black Duck addresses the strategic risks of AI-generated code with True Scale Application Security [11]. As a seven-year leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for Application Security Testing, Black Duck is the only choice for securing mission-critical software everywhere code happens. Discover how Black Duck delivers True Scale
NetFoundry provides microsegmented overlay networks that hide assets behind closed inbound firewall ports and identity, authentication, and authorization at the application level.
The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol is designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and usage in decentralized finance.
There's a common belief that paying a ransom may be effective in getting operations up and running quickly in the event of a ransomware attack. Organizations that have paid ransoms, such as Travelex, have sometimes faced broken or slow decryptors and other issues that led to recovery taking months. Additionally, paying ransoms encourages and funds further cybercrime activity.
An engineer at ListenLabs.AI created an AI-driven PowerPoint slide generator by reverse engineering Microsoft's detailed Office Open XML format. This project addressed technical challenges like custom solutions for image borders and colored links, enabling the automatic generation of well-structured presentation decks from user interview data. It highlights the potential of AI in simplifying document creation and the possible security implications of proprietary file formats.
A federal jury awarded WhatsApp $168 million in damages from NSO Group for infecting users with spyware. The ruling is a win for WhatsApp's lawsuit against the spyware maker. NSO Group plans to explore legal options following the verdict.
Disney experienced cyberattacks from a former employee and an external hacker in 2024 that led to the theft of 1.1TB of sensitive data and sabotage of its internal systems.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified two threat actors behind investment scams that used fake celebrity endorsements and deceptive web forms to collect user data on social media platforms like Facebook - Reckless Rabbit and Ruthless Rabbit.
Microsoft's newly unveiled AI agents for Windows are expected to allow users to easily change computer settings using natural language prompts without much direct involvement.
Effective error messages not only help users recover quickly, but also builds trust with them. However, the message content themselves are often overlooked in UX design. Instead of vague, robotic, or cutesy language, write conversationally in an active voice, clearly identify what went wrong, and provide specific next steps.
A React Native app can be optimized for mobile battery by addressing battery drain and crash issues. A team improved the app's crash-free rate to nearly 99% by fixing Android's headless mode transition problems, which were causing restart loops during route tracking. They also reduced battery consumption by implementing smarter database queries that only activated when new location data was available.
In large tech companies, "getting things done" isn't just about completing tasks, but delivering value that is visible and appreciated by decision-makers. Engineers can fall into the trap of endless incremental improvements, which may be productive but lack impact in the eyes of management. To truly succeed, engineers should focus on finishing projects to a satisfactory point, declaring victory, and moving on to new, impactful initiatives.
A common problem during development is when attempting to implement a new feature leads to a cycle of unrelated refactorings. This results in a messy and often non-compiling workspace. To get around this, use `git stash` to manage these refactorings by stashing current changes, addressing the refactoring, and then popping the stash to continue, working "inside-out."
Once a programmer recognizes flaws in software, they feel compelled to correct them. This compulsion leads to a constant cycle of building and rebuilding. However, this can lead to burnout over time, so it's important for devs to figure out the highest-impact problems to spend their time on.
Clerk Billing is the easiest way to implement subscriptions for B2C and B2B applications. No payment integration code to write, no UI work, nothing to keep in sync. Just enable Billing and drop a on your
Google has released Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition), which has improved coding capabilities, especially in front-end web development and agentic workflows.
Exa is a search API with a new sourcing tool called Websets, allowing businesses and developers to access and utilize web data for various applications like research, recruiting, and sales. It has features like comprehensive search, content crawling, and LLM integration.
Lyft Engineering built a Codemod Platform to automate code transformations and dependency upgrades across their many frontend microservices. This platform uses jscodeshift to parse and modify code. The platform features a CLI tool, reusable helper functions, and standardized codemod implementation, allowing devs to easily write and run transforms.
The increasing reliance on AI in software development, while initially leading to speed, may lead to a dangerous dependence on tools we don't fully understand.
Tech executives' plans to replace developers with AI may be short-sighted, as AI's ability to code relies on developer-created content, and companies that invest in augmenting developers with AI (rather than replacing) will likely surpass those focused solely on cost reduction.
Manual testing on personal devices is TOO SLOW AND TOO LIMITED. It forces teams to CUT RELEASES A WEEK EARLY just to test before submitting them to app stores. And without broad device coverage, issues slip through.