Riviera Partners, the Insight Partners-backed executive search firm that has placed technology leaders at companies including Uber, Snowflake, Figma, and Discord, is acquiring Lateral Labs, a recruiting firm that specialises in hiring for AI startups. The deal brings Lateral Labs’ client roster, which includes Cursor, ElevenLabs, Runway, Scale AI, and Luma Labs, under the umbrella […]
Figma used the opening keynote of its Config 2026 conference on Wednesday to unveil code layers, a feature that brings executable code directly onto the collaborative design canvas. Teams can now clone repositories and extract flows from code into design layers for testing, collapsing a handoff step that has defined the design-to-development workflow for over […]
Ferrari is replacing its Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer Enrico Galliera, who has held the role for more than 16 years, with former BMW Italy CEO Massimiliano Di Silvestre. The change takes effect July 1 and comes exactly one month after the controversial reveal of the Luce, Ferrari’s first fully electric vehicle, which sent the […]
Slate Auto revealed Wednesday that its electric pickup truck will start at $24,950, making it the cheapest new truck available in the United States. The Bezos-backed startup simultaneously opened preorders, converting more than 180,000 existing reservations into $300 nonrefundable deposits. Deliveries are expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year. The price is […]
Amazon’s Zoox revealed a series of design upgrades to its custom-built robotaxi on Wednesday, refining the interior comfort and exterior communication of a vehicle that still lacks a steering wheel, pedals, or any traditional driver controls. The changes are based on rider feedback from the company’s free ride programme and are timed to coincide with […]
Brussels wants to double the agency’s staff and widen its data powers. Rights groups say it has written the surveillance before drawing the safeguards. The European Commission moved to give Europol a markedly bigger job. In a proposal set out as part of its drive to harden the bloc against organised, internet-based, and financial crime, […]
The services chief, named Cannes Lions’ Entertainment Person of the Year, set out the logic behind Apple TV: no licensed reruns, fewer titles, and a belief that the story is the only thing that matters. Eddy Cue would like you to know that Apple is not finished. Accepting the title of Entertainment Person of the […]
Ryan Cohen has asked GameStop’s board to remove the performance-based stock award it proposed for him in January scrapping a package that analysts had valued at as much as $35bn if every milestone were hit. Cohen, who is both chairman and chief executive and draws no salary, said he wanted the company’s leadership focused on […]
At SoftBank Group’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday, the founder and chief executive was asked, as he is asked at almost every public appearance now, whether the artificial intelligence boom that has driven his fortune to record highs is a bubble waiting to deflate. He treated the question itself as the problem. To […]
One of Anthropic’s AI models identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive, classified US government computer systems during a testing exercise, a US official has told the Associated Press. The model in question was Mythos, Anthropic’s most capable system, and it surfaced the flaws within hours. Crucially, finding a weakness within hours is not the same as […]
