Sources: Google laid off at least 200 employees from its "Core" teams, including its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to Mexico and India (Jennifer Elias/CNBC) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

SafeBase, which helps companies automate software security reviews using AI, raised a $33M Series B led by Touring Capital, bringing its total funding to $50M+ (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:10 Rating: 5

AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram (Scott Nover/Fast Company) Reviewed by studypoint on 03:09 Rating: 5

Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board (Eugen Rochko/Mastodon Blog) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business (Kate Kelly/New York Times) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Threads expands Hidden Words to let users filter out words, phrases, or emoji, and tests the option to mute notifications and ways to select who can quote posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:10 Rating: 5

WhatsApp rolls out passkey support on iOS, removing the need for users to deal with SMS one-time passcodes, six months after introducing the feature on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed "toxicity testing", but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging Face (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Pomelo, a "send now, pay later" startup that lets users in the US send money in the form of credit to people in the Philippines, raised a $35M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Midas, which lets users in Turkey invest in US and Turkish equities, raised a $45M Series A, after a $11M seed in 2022, and plans crypto trading and more (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Short-form video app Triller is merging with Hong Kong financial services company AGBA; Triller shareholders will own 80% of the combined company valued at $4B (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide) Reviewed by studypoint on 01:09 Rating: 5

DARPA reveals that an AI-controlled X-62A jet successfully faced a human pilot in an F-16 during an in-air dogfight test carried out in 2023 (Emma Roth/The Verge) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:10 Rating: 5

Startup-focused neobank Mercury expands to consumers with Mercury Personal, offering support for multiple users, access to up to $5M in FDIC insurance, and more (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:10 Rating: 5

Amazon confirms that HQ2 in Arlington lost 200 jobs in 2023, missing Amazon's goal of adding 2,500 jobs; HQ2 has ~8,000 employees and plans to reach ~25,000 (Teo Armus/Washington Post) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and "OSINT experts" (Vittoria Elliott/Wired) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

LinkedIn: the number of companies with a designated head of AI position or a chief AI officer (CAIO) has almost tripled globally in the past five years (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Bluesky says it is now allowing heads of state to sign up, and adds features including hashtags in profile bios and the ability to long press a link to share (Wes Davis/The Verge) Reviewed by studypoint on 02:09 Rating: 5

Airchat, Naval Ravikant's social media app built around audio recordings, which the app transcribes, relaunches on iOS and Android; it is currently invite-only (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 01:09 Rating: 5

Epic asks a US court to require Google to allow alt app stores in Play Store and limit Google's ability to restrict alt app store preloading on Android phones (Mike Scarcella/Reuters) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:10 Rating: 5