Google offers buyouts to staff in its business unit who aren't 'all in'

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Google chief business officer Philipp Schindler
Google chief business officer Philipp Schindler.

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Cybersecurity startup Lema has come out of stealth to raise $24 million

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Lema founders
Lema founders left to right: Omer Yehudai (CPO), Eddie Dovzhik (CEO), and Tomer Roizman (CTO).

Netanel Tobias

3 VCs behind Affirm, DoorDash, and Zoom say the next wave of billion-dollar companies won't be in San Francisco

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Sentinel Global investors
From left to right: Karan Sharma, Ethel Chen, and Jeremy Kranz.

Sentinel Global

A new platform lets AI agents 'rent a human.' Its creator says his job worries drove him to build it.

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RentAHuman's homepage as of Friday, February 6, including a dashboard showing a site visit count of about 2.8 million, 11,000 total bounties, and 180,000
RentAHuman's website tells gig workers that they can join "the meatspace" by doing tasks for AI agents.

RentAHuman

Amazon is expanding 'Melania' to nearly 300 more theaters after a better-than-expected opening weekend

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Melania Trump in a jet
"Melania."

Amazon MGM Studios

  • "Melania" is expanding to over 2,000 screens this weekend.
  • The movie earned $7 million on 1,778 screens in its opening weekend January 30.
  • The movie will have stiff competition as it will be up against the Super Bowl.

"Melania" is expanding in its second weekend in theaters.

Religious freedom group says US military members were 'pressured' by commanders to see 'Melania'

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Melania Trump sitting at a desk
"Melania."

Amazon MGM Studios

Here's how hedge funds like Citadel, Point72, and Millennium performed in January

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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin speaks on a panel in a suit and tie.
Citadel founder Ken Griffin runs the most profitable hedge fund of all time.

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Amazon is laying off thousands of workers as it closes Fresh stores. Here's the severance package it's offering staff.

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The entrance to an Amazon Fresh store, with green-and-white signs above doors leading into the store and a few customers walking in from the parking lot.
Amazon is offering severance pay and transfer options to workers at its Amazon Fresh stores.

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Taco Bell's CEO says the chain's 'magic formula' is fueling growth as rivals fall flat

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The exterior of a Taco Bell restaurant with a drive-thru.
Taco Bell outperformed the rest of the fast-food segment in Q4, posting growth in same-store sales while other chains struggled to remain flat.

Duane Prokop/Getty Images for Taco Bell

A longtime Paramount exec is stepping down as David Ellison's company shakes up its ads leadership

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Ellison Para TV
David Ellison, pictured left, is the CEO of Paramount, which is losing a longtime ad sales executive who got his start at the company at CBS.

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