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Ford adds jobs to meet soaring demand for electric F-150 Lightning
Rebellion Defense, the Eric Schmidt-backed developer of AI defense tech, raises $150M led by Insight and Venrock at a $1B pre-money valuation
Snap hires Jacqueline Beauchere, the chief online safety officer at Microsoft, to be its first global head of platform safety
Silicon Valley stirs over proposal to end popular QSBS tax break
Sources: Biden will nominate Georgetown law professor Alvaro Bedoya, who focuses on privacy issues, to be a commissioner at the FTC
Facebook, Ray-Ban debut picture-taking smart glasses
Media trust hits new low
Solv, a provider of same-day and next-day appointment software for health care providers, raises $45M Series C co-led by Acrew Capital and Corner Ventures
Biden admin says Mina Hsiang will lead the US Digital Service, working on crises across the government; Hsiang previously worked on HealthCare.gov's rescue team
Facebook says it helped airlift 175 Afghan citizens out of Afghanistan to Mexico, including journalists and some of its own employees
Syndicate, a decentralized investing platform that wants to make it easier for users to create DAOs, raises $20M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
Source: Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content
Sources: Amazon is developing a live audio feature, led by its Music division, with a focus on live music and potentially radio and podcasts
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