2026-07-05
AI-native startups hire fewer juniors and more elites, Harvard study finds
Startups built around AI hire fewer entry-level workers than their peers, according to a working paper from Harvard Business School and INSEAD, first reported by Business Insider. The firms are leaner, flatter, and heavily weighted towards senior technical talent. Researchers Rembrand Koning and Hyunjin Kim examined Y Combinator startups from 2020 to 2024 alongside a broader set of […]<br [...]
2026-07-05
Minions & Monsters wins July 4 box office with a franchise-low $64M debut
[tldr]Universal’s Minions & Monsters topped the US July 4 box office with roughly $64m over its first five days, the weakest opening in Despicable Me franchise history and far below the $120m-plus debuts of its two predecessors. The soft start raises franchise-fatigue questions for Comcast’s most reliable animation machine.[/tldr] Universal’s Minions & Monsters led the […]<br /& [...]
2026-07-05
Judge grants Alibaba a reprieve from the lobbying ban tied to the Pentagon’s blacklist
A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba temporary relief from a law that stripped it of every lobbyist it had in Washington, Bloomberg reports. The reprieve stands while the court considers whether the measure is constitutional. The case is shaping up as a test of how far the US can go in curbing […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-05
Tech billionaires pour $120M into killing California’s wealth tax
Silicon Valley’s wealthiest are spending heavily to stop California’s proposed billionaire tax, according to a Business Insider tally of campaign filings. Opponents have poured more than $120m into sinking or blunting the measure, roughly four times the $31m raised by its union backers. Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on residents and trusts worth over […]<br /> This st [...]
2026-07-05
World Cup streams are intentionally freezing your video player — here is why your VPN’s ad blocker is causing the crash and the way that you can fix it before England vs Mexico
Streaming services use trackers to check whether you’re watching adverts, meaning ad-blockers can cause problems. [...]
2026-07-05
Quote of the day by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: 'One of the tech industry’s worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go full remote forever' — closing the doors to pandemic-era flexibility
Despite championing remote working, the technology industry was among the first sectors to row back on this new era [...]
