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TikTok lays off 250 employees, shutters its Nashville office | TechCrunch 0
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- August 6, 2026
TikTok is laying off 250 employees and closing its Nashville office, which housed some members of TikTok’s content-moderation team. The news was first reported by The New York Times. Zanna Crowley, a spokesperson for the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, confirmed the news, saying that the shuttering was to “streamline our operations and better align our
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Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings | TechCrunch 0
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- August 6, 2026
Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps’ “Ask Maps” feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities, including the ability to order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. The tech giant is also bringing Personal Intelligence to Ask Maps, allowing the AI tool to personalize its responses by drawing on information from a
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Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO | TechCrunch 0
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- August 6, 2026
Another former Uber executive is joining Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms, just a few weeks after it raised $1.7 billion. Gautam Gupta, the former finance chief under Kalanick, said in social media posts on Wednesday that he has joined Atoms as chief financial officer. Gupta spent more than four years at Uber
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Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product | TechCrunch 0
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- August 6, 2026
Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role. Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s “time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster,” adding that he’ll continue to advise the company.
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- August 6, 2026
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Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders | TechCrunch 0
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- August 5, 2026
Publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by serial entrepreneur Elias Torres. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2023, Agency had raised $32 million from investors including Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, and Felicis prior to the acquisition. As part of
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