Russia has accused Telegram founder Pavel Durov of facilitating terrorism over allegations that the messaging app has been used for recruitment by the Ukrainian secret services. The FSB, Russia’s national security service, said Telegram had been used “to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism” within Russia and had not removed channels, chats and
For 19-year-old Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, there is no middle ground. Either build a company as valuable as Google, he says, or fail and end up on the street. He started coding at age 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and DMed every Y Combinator founder he could find
There is one founder making waves in the AI industry who is not an American tech billionaire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman or Dario Amodei. Yang Zhilin is the 34-year-old researcher and entrepreneur behind Chinese company Moonshot AI and its new open-weight Kimi K3 AI model, which caught the attention of Silicon Valley this week.
Hinge founder Justin McLeod announced an $18 million fundraising for his new dating company, Overtone. McLeod stepped down from his CEO role at Hinge last year, and Hinge owner Match Group, which also owns apps like Tinder and OkCupid, is helping fund his new venture, along with FirstMark Capital and Pace Capital. While details about
TV Time, the popular movie and TV tracking app whose pending closure has prompted more than 25,000 users to file a petition against its closure, it is restarting. One of the app’s original founders, Antonio Pinto, says he’s creating a new TV show tracking app, Bingers, that will try to rebuild TV Time’s best features
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aashna Doshi, a 23-year-old former Google software engineer based in New York City. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I took a big risk to get my Google job. Now I’m taking another one by leaving it. Around February 2024, months before graduating