Another week of layoffs and executive departures.

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Tip Your Own Amazon Driver (Amazon Dime)Amazon will pay $5 more to a delivery driver who has an Alexa device at their home if they say “Alexa, thank your driver” after each delivery. Amazon could pay drivers less to begin with, but that, unfortunately, wouldn’t be one of the most read headlines on Amazon this week.

Slack’s CEO is leavingLast week Salesforce CEO Brett TaylorStep aside. This week Stewart Butterfield, CEO at Slack (which Salesforce owns), announced that he will also be retiring in January. Ron Miller shares his thoughts on Inbound Slack CEO Lidiane Jones has decades of product experience.

Twitter files“Elon Musk reminded his followers on Friday that now owning Twitter means he controls every aspect of the company — including what its employees said behind closed doors before he took over,” Taylor wrote. general.

Lensa AI has gone viralAll your social media friends suddenly look like sci-fi heroes and gods. Lensa AI is a photo-editing app which went viral this week after adding support to Stable Diffusion’s AI-generated art tools. The popularity hasn’t come without controversy, though — many continue to debate the ethics of selling something created by an AI trained on the actions of real people; Meanwhile, others have pointed out that AI they can be “fooled”NSFW images must not be created

More technical layoffsThis week: Airtable LayoffAbout 20% of its staff are more than 250 people. plaid 20% were laid off.They employ 260 people. African financial technology unicorn Chipper Cash left 50 peoplePrimer, the UK’s drag and drop e-commerce platform leave 85About a third of the company.

Google brings together the Maps / Waze teamsGoogle bought Waze, a navigation app for more than $1billion in 2013, and said that it would keep the Waze-and-Google Maps teams separate “for now.” Google confirmed this week that the two departments will merge. Google expects Waze to continue as a standalone service.

Twitter Blue may cost more on iOS: Twitter’s $8 “blue”, subscription plan, which comes with a blue checkmark “verified”, is currently paused Some false startsBut when it returns, it may cost you a few more dollars if it is purchased through the iOS app to make up Apple’s cut.

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is found– We have a new podcast host! Becca Zkotak, Day CEO Valentina Milanova, took over the role of co-host this week. The Equity crew continues to try to understand 2022 in a Look back at the end of the yearTaylor Hatmaker and Taylor Hatmaker both jumped Techcrunch podcastTo see what the sudden surge in AI-generated artwork means to actual human artists.

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Investors are sounding the alarm about potential private equity technology deals“Who wants to sell when the prices are low?” Ron Miller and Alex Wilhelm.

Rootine platform planned for $10 millionHage writes, “If you told us that a company that charges $70 per month for a multivitamin could raise $10 million, I’d demand to see the receipts.” Hage then dives into the presentation platform that made this possible.