Catch up quick: Researchers reported last month that bondu, an AI-powered conversational toy company, inadvertently exposed children's chat transcripts and personal data through a publicly accessible portal. Bondu, which allows parents to check their children's conversations, said it took down the exposed portal and relaunched it the next day with authentication measures, according to Wired. Driving the news: New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan, the ranking member of the Senate's Joint Economic Committee, is now asking bondu to explain how the exposure occurred.
There's only one number that tells you whether this company thrives or continues as is: 737 MAX deliveries per month. Boeing has over 4,000 MAX jets in backlog. Airlines like United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) and Southwest (NYSE:LUV) are waiting. Each plane sells for roughly $55 million after discounts. The math is brutal: Boeing is targeting 38 deliveries monthly but actually delivering 20-25. That gap represents $715 million in missing revenue every single month, or $8.5 billion annually.
"We will neither fail, nor will we be an average outcome, and that's what we want and that's all I care about every day and all you should care about every day, and nothing else should matter," CEO Alex Blania told employees at the start of the year, according to a recording reviewed by BI's Nicole Einbinder. Blania's message has become a common pitch from tech executives to their employees ahead of critical junctures. For Orb, it's about getting more people to opt into what amounts to a human verification tool.
Since 2019, when Google first announced its now abandoned plans to kill third-party cookies in Chrome, we've been along for the ride, documenting every twist and turn through our reporting and our Friday comics. We've chronicled it all, from the drama at the World Wide Web Consortium and the rollout of every key Privacy Sandbox API to Google's shifting timelines, regulatory scrutiny from the UK's Competition and Markets Authority and all the scathing industry critiques.
Tether is the most captivating story you've never heard of. A first mover in the stablecoin space, Tether's flagship product has grown to a monster $167 billion in market cap with just around 200 employees and $13 billion in profits last year, making it one of the most successful corporations on the planet. (And it was cofounded by a Mighty Duck, but that's a story for another time.)
Despite concerns from regulators regarding its financial situation, Affinity Water has doubled the pay of its chief executive, Keith Haslett, to 1.6 million for the 2024-25 financial year, up from 709,000 the prior year.
