Author: John Taylor

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Nayya, which uses AI to help guide employees in selecting a health plan offered by their employers, raises $11M Series A led by Felicis Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Profile of Chegg, which is valued at $12B, employs 70,000+ freelance tutors in India, and faces the issue of students using it to cheat by getting test answers (Susan Adams/Forbes)

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A CA bill aims to let workers under NDA gags speak out about any discrimination, not just sexual harassment; ex-Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma helped draft it (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)

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In a postmortem, Indie.vc founder shares the reasons why the alternative VC financing experiment failed (Bryce Roberts)

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Amazon says it wants to help the Biden administration’s vaccination efforts, says non-WFH Amazon staff should be vaccinated “at the earliest appropriate time” (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

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Trump’s last post on Facebook, which now has 700K+ comments, has become a weird internet memorial where his fans and critics still converge to argue and troll (Brian Contreras/Los Angeles Times)

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Thursday’s House Committee hearing focused very little on social media’s role in the GameStop squeeze and instead focused on Robinhood’s influence (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

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Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson calls out tech leaders for bailing on SF and being rude about it as they leave, says he is staying and working to make the city better (Heather Knight/San Francisco Chronicle)

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The founder of Joker’s Stash, one of the most popular marketplaces for stolen credit card and identity data, has allegedly retired with a fortune of $1B+ (Dr. Tom Robinson/Elliptic Blog)

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Facebook’s AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violations (Dave Gershgorn/OneZero )

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