It's been a rough go for the startup industry over the past 18 months — but now can also be a great time for workers to grab a seat on a rocket ship.
Driving the news: Prospect, a startup that's raised $1 million in funding from Construct Capital and angel investors, is building a data-based tool it says can help workers figure out where they're most likely to maximize their equity returns in venture-backed startups.
A U.S. government advisory board is pushing Washington to reckon with an unpleasant reality: Teenagers are increasingly participating in underground cybercrime.
Driving the news: This month, the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board recommended that Congress explore funding juvenile cybercrime prevention programs that could help steer young people away from illegal hacking and other online crimes.
Despite widely attended events, including last Sunday's LCS Summer Finals at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, Riot Games' long-running League of Legends esports league is not breaking even, Raul Fernandez, Riot's senior director of esports in the Americas, told Axios in Newark last weekend.
Why it matters: Tencent-owned Riot runs some of the world's most popular multiplayer games, including League and the first-person shooter Valorant, but running a thriving sports business around them is still a work in progress.
Salary negotiations — among the most high-stakes, emotionally fraught and psychologically complex processes many employees will ever experience — could soon get the artificial-intelligence treatment.
What's happening: Pactum AI, the world's largest provider of automated procurement negotiation, has been using AI chatbots to negotiate the packages of its employees since 2021.
