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A Digital Talent Hub Can Make Your Sales Team More Agile

Companies typically rely on a series of unconnected databases to manage activities such as tracking applicants, onboarding new employees, and monitoring performance. For sales teams, which typically experience high turnover, there can be advantages to connecting these systems into a single digital talent hub. Doing so can speed the hiring and onboarding cycles, recognize patterns in how hires with certain backgrounds benefit from certain types of training, and better utilize artificial intelligence to nudge salespeople toward specific actions. All of these things can increase salespeople’s productivity and performance.

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Acquiring AI talent wholesale | TechCrunch  
  

Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of…


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Ex-Google engineers who founded Character.AI rejoin company with new AI partnership  
  

In March, Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of AI startup DeepMind that Google acquired in 2014, and much of its staff to lead AI initiatives. Suleyman became an executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. Last month, U.K. regulators opened a merger probe on Microsoft's hiring of the staff.






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Nvidia is reportedly in the DOJ antitrust hot seat  
  

“Nvidia wins on merit, as reflected in our benchmark results and value to customers,” an Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement shared with Quartz. “We compete based on decades of investment and innovation, scrupulously adhering to all laws, making Nvidia openly available in every cloud and on-prem for every enterprise, and ensuring that customers can choose whatever solution is best for them. We’ll continue to support aspiring innovators in every industry and market and are happy to provide any information regulators need.”


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US probes Nvidia's acquisition of Israeli AI startup  
  

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Passenger Who Tried to Open Cockpit and Exit Door Gets 19 Months in Prison  
  

“The government believes that the defendant’s actions were reckless because of his use of methamphetamine, rather than an intentional effort to bring down the aircraft,” the prosecution, led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul S. Becker, argued in a sentencing memorandum.


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Prisoner Deals Stoke Fears of Perverse 'Incentive' to Grab Americans  
  

In a joint statement, Speaker Mike Johnson and the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, called for “serious action to deter further hostage-taking by Russia, Iran, and other states hostile to the United States.” The two Republicans offered no specifics about what steps should be taken, however.




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Harris Has Votes Needed to Be Democrats' Nominee, D.N.C. Says  
  

Although her place atop the ticket had essentially been a foregone conclusion once Mr. Biden endorsed her after dropping out last month, Ms. Harris has brought her party together remarkably quickly, raising more than $200 million, drawing thousands of people to her rallies and energizing her party’s base.


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Google has pulled its Olympics-themed AI ad that gave viewers the ick  
  

The tech giant has partnered with NBCUniversal and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Google is Team USA’s official search AI partner, the sports non-profit’s first ever collaboration with a tech company.




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Harris Won Enough Votes to Be the Democratic Nominee  
  

Now, with the party uniting behind her, Harris is using the lessons from her troubled 2020 campaign to reintroduce herself to the American public as a different type of presidential candidate, my colleague Astead Herndon wrote. Here’s how she has changed.


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The Justice Department sues TikTok for breaking child privacy laws  
  

The lawsuit comes at a particularly inconvenient time for TikTok, which is set to face off with the Justice Department in federal court next month over a law that aims to force ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban in the United States.




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Turkey has blocked Instagram amid a dispute over Hamas-related content  
  

It’s not the first time Turkish authorities have blocked a major social media service. Twitter was briefly blocked in the country last year following a devastating earthquake that killed thousands of people. YouTube and Twitter were also blocked in 2014.


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Report reveals secret US inquiry into alleged 2016 Egyptian $10m gift to Trump  
  

An anonymous government source told the Post: “Every American should be concerned about how this case ended. The justice department is supposed to follow evidence wherever it leads – it does so all the time to determine if a crime occurred or not.”




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Kamala Harris 'honored' after earning enough votes to become Democratic nominee ? as it happened  
  

Reporter: Vance compared you to a really bad impression of ObamaShapiro: Barack Obama was probably our most gifted orator of my time, so that's kind of a weird insult. I'll say this about JD Vance: it's really hard being honest with the American people when you're not being… pic.twitter.com/0UY8T7KGJw


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Self-driving truck startup Aurora Innovation raises $483M in share sale ahead of commercial launch | TechCrunch  
  

Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of…




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Exclusive: Adept Materials' dehumidifying paint was inspired by trees and semiconductors | TechCrunch  
  

Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of…


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Watch: Why did Wiz walk away from $23 billion?  
  

So it sounds like Google being willing to make such a huge offer gave Wiz’s leadership confidence that if they continued on an independent path, Wiz might be worth even more than $23 billion one day — maybe as a public company, or if not, then as an even more expensive acquisition target.




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AI friends, deepfake foes and which Tiger Global partner is leaving now  
  

You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. For the full episode transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, check out our full archive of episodes over at Simplecast.


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What's behind the stock market's brutal 2-day crash?  
  

One factor experts say likely wasn\'t at play? Steep losses from mega-cap names, Hatfield added, were likely not a big driver of the market dip. Intel shares plunged 26% after the company reported a big earnings miss and announced mass layoffs, while Amazon’s stock fell 9% after a disappointing earnings call. But Apple, America’s largest company, emerged from Friday’s session slightly up.


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'Reputational car crash': insiders rue BBC's handling of Huw Edwards  
  

Another news source said: "Surely there comes a point between [being arrested in] November and [his resigning in April] where they could have said: 'You've brought the BBC into disrepute already and now you've been arrested.' There was a way of getting rid of him, and him not having that pay rise.


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Huw Edwards should return BBC salary paid after arrest, says Lisa Nandy  
  

The BBC said: “We fully appreciate the complexities and confidentiality of [the internal investigation] can be frustrating for those who have come forward … but we are extremely grateful to everyone who did so and will always listen with great care to anyone who wants to raise concerns with us.”


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Appeals Court Further Narrows Voting Rights Act's Scope  
  

A lawyer for the Black and Latino voters who brought the suit, Mark P. Gaber of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, said the argument that their voting power had been diluted remained strong.


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Alan Garber Will Stay On as Harvard's President  
  

Harvard has spent more than a year thoroughly besieged. Last summer, the Supreme Court struck down the university’s race-conscious admissions program. In the fall, Harvard\'s hesitating response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel led to a campus uproar.


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Defense Secretary Revokes Plea Deal for Accused Sept. 11 Plotters  
  

Ms. Escallier’s approval of the agreement that was reached between prosecutors and the defendants over two years of negotiations had appeared to resolve the case, which had been mired in pretrial hearings since 2012.


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Shapiro's College-Era Criticism of Palestinians Draws Fresh Scrutiny  
  

“They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own,” he wrote in the essay, published in the Sept. 23, 1993, edition of The Campus Times, the student newspaper. “They will grow tired of fighting amongst themselves and will turn outside against Israel.”


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Alongside the Trump-Russia Inquiry, a Lesser-Known Look at Egyptian Influence  
  

Mr. Trump’s foreign business ties and efforts by foreign interests and government to influence him have come under scrutiny again as he seeks to return to the White House. The little-known investigation into possible Egyptian influence shows both the intensity of past efforts to explore the issue and how they have fueled Mr. Trump’s long-running assertions that he has been subject to a “witch hunt.”


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Secret Service Chief Admits Lack of Certainty on Sniper Locations at Trump Rally  
  

In testimony earlier this week, Mr. Rowe told senators that the local snipers would have been able to see the gunman, who was on the roof of the building in front of where they were posted, if they had looked left out the window.


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The Veepstakes (Pennsylvania's Version)  
  

So today, amid a whirl of speculation, we’re going to home in on just one guy — Shapiro — and the biggest, baddest swing state of them all: Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral votes. Shapiro, 51, became a Democratic darling when he won the 2022 governor’s race by nearly 15 percentage points, and he has since become the state’s most popular first-term governor since the early 1990s.


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Agency Votes to Replace Official Accused of Rushing Start of Seabed Mining  
  

Ms. Carvalho has said she does not support a moratorium on seabed mining or a formal pause in the start of the effort. But in an interview, she said that she did not believe industrial-scale mining could start until environmental regulations are finalized and that it could take several years to do so.


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Death of Black Man at Milwaukee Hyatt Is Ruled a Homicide  
  

The Milwaukee Police Department last month referred felony murder charges to prosecutors against four people but did not name them. The police said that an underlying charge of battery was also referred against the four. The referrals essentially amount to a recommendation.


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Former F.B.I. Agent Sentenced to Life Plus 20 Years for Sexually Abusing Child  
  

A few days later, the friend told an adult, who reported the abuse to school officials, prompting an investigation. Mr. Bauer was arrested that same day and remained in custody throughout the case, Mr. Bailey said.


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Haunting Image: First Photo Released of C.I.A. Prisoner at Black Site  
  

This is the kind of material defense lawyers have long sought to present to a judge or jury as evidence of outrageous government conduct, to avert a death penalty or have a war crimes case dismissed.


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Kamala Harris Hires Top Obama Advisers, Building Out Campaign  
  

Stephanie Cutter, Mr. Obama’s deputy campaign manager in 2012, will now be a senior adviser for message and strategy. Mitch Stewart, Mr. Obama’s 2012 battleground states director, will be a senior adviser for the battleground states this year. Jennifer Palmieri, a former Obama and Clinton communications director, will be a senior adviser to Ms. Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff.


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Not One of Us: Trump Uses Old Tactic to Sow Suspicion About Harris  
  

Over decades, the tactic of othering has been wielded against candidates with various backgrounds, characteristics and traits, among them race, ethnicity, gender, economic class and religion — all in the service of making them seem alien to voters. And it has often been effective. In 1928, Republican opponents seized on the fact that Al Smith, the Democratic candidate for president, was a Roman Catholic, suggesting that he would therefore be beholden to the Pope.


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Senior U.S. Diplomat Will Lead Kamala Harris's Running Mate's Team  
  

“U.S. credibility has never been more important,” Ms. Allen said in an interview. “The components of public diplomacy — and in particular, strategic narratives and countering disinformation — have never been more important.”


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Olympic Champion Simone Biles Posted on Social Media That She Loves her 'Black Job'  
  

“While the rest of the country is celebrating the U.S.A. women’s gymnastics team’s performance at the Olympics, JD Vance is facing his weakest moment amid a gaffe-filled rollout that has left him as the most unpopular V.P. pick in decades,” she said.


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Delta gives employees free flights for dealing with the CrowdStrike outage  
  

The CrowdStrike outage, which started with a glitchy cybersecurity software update, affected Delta’s internal computer systems more seriously than other airlines. It was cancelling hundreds of flights days after other carriers’ troubles had subsided. Bastian said the incident had cost Delta $500 million.


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The Dow closes 600 points lower as recession fear resurfaces  
  

Intel’s stock plummeted over 26% by the end of the day following a significant earnings miss in the quarter ending in June. The company also announced it would be laying off more than 15% of its employees. The company’s cost-reduction plan is part of moving “toward a sustainable business model” to support its long-term strategy, Intel said.


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Bug, or bait and switch? Elon Musk's super PAC website isn't working as advertised  
  

“I suspect that the PAC’s ability to coordinate its data-driven canvassing activities with the Trump campaign made it very appealing for donors,” Brendan Fischer, a deputy executive director at campaign finance watchdog Documented, told CNBC.


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Wendy's CEO is bullish on breakfast despite earnings miss  
  

All the breakfast and bundle chatter didn’t keep Wendy’s from missing Wall Street’s expectations. During the second quarter, the chain reported revenue of $570 million, about 27 cents a share. Analysts expected it to report $577 million, or 28 cents a share.


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Intel stock falls 27% after missing revenue expectations  
  

The company’s shares are down 55.7% so far this year. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 945 points, or 2.3%, to 39,430, during mid-day Friday trading. The Nasdaq also fell 3%, and the S&P 500 was down 2.6%.


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The struggling DNA testing company 23andMe is not going private -- yet  
  

The committee asked Wojcicki to withdraw her “stated intent to oppose any alternative transaction.” It said if it did not receive an improved offer from Wojcicki, the committee would pursue alternative deals including offers from third parties.


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DraftKings stock tanks after it reveals plan for new surcharge on winning bets  
  

However, DraftKings lowered its adjusted earnings guidance for the full year to between $340 million and $420 million, down from $460 million to $540 million. Robins said the surcharge could provide a boost to annual adjusted earnings when it launches next year. But “even if we don’t get any benefit from the fee, we will see still $900 million to $1 billion in adjusted EBITDA next year,” he said during a Friday earnings call.


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Google cut its CrowdStrike stake in half -- just before the global IT outage  
  

But Google’s luck with CrowdStrike isn’t seeping into all areas of its existence. Google’s stock price tumbled last week after the company’s heavy AI-related spending and weaker-than-expected YouTube sales disappointed investors. Google shares are down nearly 9% since it reported earnings last week.


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The FTC is coming after high grocery prices  
  

The agency’s efforts also come as FTC Chair Khan has been at the center of conversation between Republicans and Democrats. Khan, known for her tough antitrust stance, has opposed big mergers and launched investigations into major companies (including Kroger’s $25 billion bid to buy Albertsons). Although progressives support her, many tech and Wall Street figures have been pushing for her removal.


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ExxonMobil's earnings reveal record crude production  
  

“An energy-abundant future, driven by economic growth and rising levels of prosperity, creates opportunity for ExxonMobil no matter the speed or direction of the energy transition,” Woods said on the company’s earnings call.


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Trump Media stock rises on its new 'uncancellable' live TV streaming platform  
  

The company’s stock has been branded a meme stock due to its extremely volatile trading patterns, with investors largely trading on sentiment rather than actual business performance. Shares of Trump Media surged more than 50% after an assassination attempt on the former president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last month.


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Tesla lawsuit blames 'defective and inadequate' Autopilot for deadly crash  
  

Tesla has also been accused of false advertising by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles and investigated by the state attorney general’s office over its marketing practices related to its tech. The Department of Justice has opened a separate investigation into Musk and Tesla for their claims about Autopilot. Musk has repeatedly over-promised and failed to deliver on his claims about Tesla’s rapid advancement in autonomous driving.


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Amazon exec blames Trump and the Olympics for weak sales  
  

On its cloud computing side, however, Amazon boasted an expected surge that would put it ahead of its competitors, including Microsoft and Google. Chief executive Andy Jassy said in a call with analysts Thursday that AWS has launched more than twice as many machine learning and generative AI features into general availability than all the other major cloud providers combined over the past 18 months.


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