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TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile US executive to exit (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)

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TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile US executive to exit  —  TikTok advertising leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving the short-form video company, joining a wave of American executives stepping down over the past year.

Trent AI raises $13M to build multi-agent security for a world where AI systems are running themselves


The London startup emerged from stealth on 7 April with a layered agentic security solution and a seed round backed by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Its co-founders include a Cambridge professor who was previously Amazon’s director of machine learning. Trent AI, a London-based agentic security company, has raised $13 million in a seed round […]



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Why Chicago Inmates Are Dying Over Scraps of Paper

After lethal drug-laced paper claimed multiple lives in a Chicago jail, authorities say the invisible threat could be more lethal than the crack epidemic.

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Uber joins Amazon’s Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal


In short: Uber has expanded its AWS contract to run real-time ride-matching infrastructure on Amazon’s Graviton4 processor and is piloting AI model training on Trainium3, joining Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple on a customer list that is becoming the clearest evidence yet that Amazon’s custom silicon strategy is working. Uber’s infrastructure runs on milliseconds. Every time a […]



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Why Microsoft’s war on Windows’ Control Panel is taking so long

Microsoft first started trying to get rid of the Control Panel in 2012, with the launch of Windows 8. More than a decade later, it's still working on migrating all the old Control Panel items into the modern Settings app in Windows 11. While there have been hints that the Control Panel might finally go […]