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Oct 21, 2019 StrictlyVC digest covering NordVPN hack, Facebook disinformation countermeasures, SoftBank–WeWork finance/board dynamics, large funding rounds, and notable fundraisings plus executive moves.
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, left citing health reasons and rejoined OpenAI to lead an internal AI safety research team, illustrating high-profile talent movement among top AI labs.
Amazon will stop accepting new Mechanical Turk customers on July 30, 2026; existing users can continue, but the service will not receive new features.
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Meta rolls out Facebook Plus, Instagram Plus, and WhatsApp Plus with monthly fees ($3.99 for Facebook/Instagram, $2.99 for WhatsApp), signaling a monetization push to offset AI spending.
TikTok launches an ad-free UK subscription at £3.99/month, pledging no ads and no data used for advertising, with rollout planned in coming months and GDPR cited as the driver.
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