A job posting quietly published on OpenAI’s careers page lays out the contours of a ChatGPT family product strategy that the company has not formally announced: a dedicated product manager role in San Francisco, tasked with building experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults across its products. The posting describes ‘a high-impact role with the opportunity to improve daily life for millions of people.’ It specifies that the team’s work ‘brings together product, policy, safety, research, and operations to keep improving how ChatGPT supports teens and families,’ suggesting this is not a skunkworks experiment but a cross-functional commitment. A Demographic…
Author: Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi spent a decade in corporate banking and fintech before moving to business journalism. She started in trade finance at a major UK bank, moved to a payments company scaling into African markets, and spent her last role leading partnerships at a cross-border remittance platform. She writes about business strategy, fintech, digital banking, and the corporate news that moves markets. She is interested in how companies actually make money rather than how they describe making money in investor presentations. Funke lives in South London. She reads earnings calls the way other people listen to podcasts, and finds them about as reliable.
The CISA GitHub credentials leak that rattled the US cybersecurity community in May 2026 was not just an embarrassing data exposure: it was a window into an agency that, by its own admission, had no clear process for handling exactly this kind of crisis. A contractor’s employee had uploaded 844 MB of plaintext passwords, Amazon Web Services tokens, and Entra ID SAML certificates to a public GitHub repository named ‘Private-CISA’, where they sat exposed since at least November 2025. The repository’s administrator had explicitly disabled GitHub’s default secret-scanning protections, according to Guillaume Valadon of cybersecurity firm GitGuardian. The credentials covered…
A new court filing in the Fizz Sidechat investor leak dispute names Jerry Lu, a partner at venture capital firm Maveron, alleging he attended a meeting with Fizz under the pretence of evaluating an investment, then passed the startup’s confidential information directly to its rival. The allegation lands in a lawsuit that has been running since 2023, when Fizz originally sued Sidechat over a range of alleged abuses: disrupting campus launches, spreading false rumours about a data breach, filing spam reports against Fizz’s Instagram account, and paying students to delete the app. The original complaint demanded a jury trial, damages,…
The Oratomic Series A funding round of $300 million is built on a single audacious claim: that a genuinely useful quantum computer needs far fewer qubits than the field has long assumed, and that a Pasadena startup founded by Caltech physicists has the science to prove it. The round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures. Bezos Expeditions, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Lowercarbon Capital, and Bain Capital also participated, alongside Formation 8, Nebular, quantum computing researchers David and Scott Aaronson, and a roster of others that stretches to include Infleqtion, Genius Ventures, and Global Frontier Investments,…
The Dixon Vivo joint venture received formal government approval on 8 July 2026, with the two companies signing the joint venture and shareholders’ agreements on 9 and 10 July, clearing the way for a partnership that has been more than eighteen months in the making. The deal, structured as a 51/49 venture with Dixon Technologies holding the majority stake, may do more than expand Noida-based Dixon’s order book: it could define how Chinese smartphone brands navigate India’s increasingly exacting investment regime. A Deal Eighteen Months in the Making The term sheet between Dixon and Vivo Mobile India was signed on…
The Gradium Nvidia seed round has closed at $100 million after the Paris-based voice AI startup reopened its financing to new investors, with Nvidia among those joining the cap table. The fresh capital will fund a new Bay Area office as the company pushes into the territory where its fiercest competitors are headquartered. Voice AI at Scale, Without the Pause Gradium’s core proposition is audio models that generate voice with ultra-low latency, eliminating the hesitation that has long made AI agent conversations feel stilted. The company describes its ambition as becoming ‘the technical backbone of global voice technology by eliminating…
A Cash App fraud settlement worth $45 million has been secured by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from 46 states, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, over what regulators described as years of deceptive practices and inadequate consumer protections on Block’s mobile payments platform. Block denied wrongdoing. The company, which operates Cash App, did not respond to requests for comment. Unbanked Users Left Exposed The states’ case centred on a specific vulnerability: Cash App had actively marketed itself to unbanked and underbanked consumers, encouraging direct deposits of paychecks and government benefits into the platform, according to the…
The Truecaller India regulatory dispute broke into the open this week when chief executive Rishit Jhunjhunwala took to X to accuse the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) of preventing his company from protecting consumers in its single most important market. The regulator, it turns out, may be preparing to fight back with considerably heavier weapons. A Framework Meant to Curb Spam Is Producing the Opposite Effect, Truecaller Says The conflict centres on two number series that India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) formally introduced on 30 May 2024 to clean up the country’s commercial communications landscape. Under that framework, the…
Google Photos Video Remix, a new tool powered by the company’s Gemini Omni model, is rolling out now to paid subscribers across 15 countries, letting users apply cinematic relighting, background swaps, and artistic styles to video clips without touching dedicated editing software. Google announced the feature on Wednesday as part of its continuing effort to fold generative AI tools into consumer apps. The move extends an existing capability. According to Droid-Life, Video Remix builds directly on the Remix feature already available for photos in Google Photos, carrying that same transformation logic across to video. The Create tab in the app…
Vermilion Cliffs Ventures Fund II has closed at $25 million, giving Ashley Smith fresh capital to back technical founders building in AI infrastructure, security, and developer tools from her base in New York. Smith founded the firm in 2023 after a career in marketing at companies including Twilio, Facebook, GitHub, and GitLab. She runs it as a solo general partner, a structure that remains uncommon in venture capital and rarer still for women. The raise took roughly four months, with much of the capital coming from existing investors who backed her debut fund. Vermilion Cliffs Ventures Fund II: The Mechanics…
