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Following Richard Branson’s announcement of halting further financial contributions, the stock price of Virgin Galactic experienced a significant drop of over 17% by Monday’s close. This latest complication adds to a series of challenges the company has faced, including recent layoffs and a suspension of commercial…

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Spotify staff could be listening to a funerary dirge in their own Spotify Wraps. The company announced it was making sweeping staff cuts across the board, reducing global headcount by around 17%. Merry Christmas.

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OpenAI is delaying the launch of its GPT Store, a marketplace of customizable GPTs, until 2024, according to a memo seen by Axios.

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Sam Altman officially returned as CEO of OpenAI Wednesday, bringing back his party which includes Greg Brockman as President, Mira Murati as CTO, and new board members. OpenAI’s co-founder, former chairman, and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is not back yet, and his position at the company is yet to be determined.

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Meta has paused sales of the Meta Quest 3 Elite Strap with Battery at retail, reportedly over a charging defect affecting some customers, according to Road to VR.

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Okta announced on Tuesday that hackers who breached its systems in October stole details about every user of the identity management service’s customer support platform, contradicting the company’s announcement in early November that only one percent of users were affected.

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Google released a new top-level domain that lets website creators throw .meme at the end of their URL on Tuesday, and I for one am already terrified of the websites about to be created.

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Evernote is testing out a new plan that would severely limit users of its free version to only 50 notes and one notebook, TechCrunch first reported on Monday.