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Bolt bans driver who assaulted passenger

Bolt Thailand announced on Wednesday it had sacked and permanently banned the ride-hail driver accused of assaulting a Japanese passenger.

Bangkok Post

Bolt bans ride-hail driver who assaulted passenger

Bolt Thailand announced on Wednesday it had sacked and permanently banned the ride-hail driver accused of assaulting a Japanese passenger.

Bangkok Post

Europe’s innovation gap with US and China in focus at Panathēnea 2026

Access to capital, risk-taking and building global companies were central themes in Athens at Panathēnea 2026.

Euronews

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A CEO fired all of HR, and the EEOC is suing the NYT

Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow and EEOC chair Andrea Lucas took the stage at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit with polarizing positions.

Fortune

Problems disappeared when I let them go: Bolt’s Ryan Breslow explains why he laid off his entire HR team

Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow defended significant layoffs and the removal of the HR department, attributing these drastic measures to a need to revive the fintech company. He stated that the HR team created non-existent problems and that the company had developed a culture of entitlement, necessitating a return to a…

The Economic Times

CEO insists on returning to ‘start-up’ mode so he fires his HR team, happily reports all his problems ‘disappeared’

Apparently, for him, humans aren’t a resource, just a hurdle.

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Bolt’s cofounder killed its HR department. This CEO says people management is key to thriving in the AI age

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BOLT CEO Claims Company Became More Efficient After Cutting Entire HR Division

Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow removed the HR department, claiming it caused unnecessary issues. The fintech company is restructuring after a valuation decline, focusing on efficiency and a leaner workforce.

International Business Times UK

'Fired HR, Problems Disappeared': Bolt CEO Claims HR Was Creating Problems That 'Didn't Exist'

Bolt's CEO Ryan Breslow navigated a dramatic 97% valuation drop, reshaping the fintech's culture by eliminating HR and implementing strategic layoffs.

International Business Times UK

Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’

Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow says a culture of “entitlement” forced a sweeping reset—including cutting the HR team, he says, which was “creating problems that didn’t exist.”

Fortune

More than 150 violent offenders granted taxi licences in Midlands city last year

FoI data reveals that 438 people with criminal convictions were given licences in Wolverhampton, UK’s ‘taxi capital’

The Guardian - UK

Bolt Graphics tapes out its first Zeus GPU test chip on TSMC 12nm — firm touts 17x lower cost of compute

Bolt Graphics has announced its completed tape-out of a test chip for its Zeus GPU, marking the startup's first move from FPGA emulation to manufactured silicon.

Tom’s Hardware

From AI agents to orbit: key moments from Nvidia’s annual conference

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke for almost three hours in California, unveiling a series of new softwares from his company that will bring autonomous AI to businesses, space and robotaxis.

Euronews

The S&P 500's 3 Best-Performing Stocks So Far in 2026

Despite a broad market selloff, SNDK, TPL, and MRNA stand out as the S&P 500's 3 best-performing stocks in 2026, each operating in a different sector.

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Plucky startup Bolt Graphics still wants to use RISC-V to compete with Nvidia, AMD in AI and beyond — and given CUDA's port on RISC-V, there may be something there

Bolt Graphics is betting on RISC-V and CUDA compatibility to challenge Nvidia and AMD with a radically different GPU design focused on AI and rendering.

Fortune

How former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is motivated by Henry Kissinger to keep working past 70

Eric Schmidt launched Bolt Data & Energy and took control of aerospace manufacturer Relativity Space in 2025.

Fortune

Google ex-CEO Eric Schmidt jumps into the AI data center business with a failed, 150-year-old Texas railroad turned oil giant

Bolt and Texas Pacific Land aim to attract hyperscalers with bespoke land, power, and water services for data center campuses.

Euronews

Bolt partners with China's Pony.ai as robotaxi push accelerates in Europe

Estonian ride-hailing platform becomes latest to team with Chinese self-driving firm.

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The Independent UK

Ride-sharing firm unveils new bidding trial across nine UK cities

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The Independent UK

Uber rival trials bidding feature amid plans for new ‘taxi tax’

Many cab drivers do not have to charge VAT on journeys

The Independent UK

The UK cities with the best and worst Uber passengers revealed

The ride-hailing app has also revealed how to improve your score

The Independent UK

New data reveals shift in UK nightlife activity

New analysis from the ride-hailing app Bolt indicates a significant resurgence in the UK's nightlife, with a 15 per cent increase in night-time trips this year compared to 2024.

The Independent UK

British nightlife has significantly changed in 2025, new data shows

Data from Bolt showed a 15 per cent increase in night-time activity over the year-to-date, compared with 2024.

Evening Standard

Britons going out more and staying out later, ride-hailing data shows

Data from the app Bolt showed a 15% increase in night-time activity over the year-to-date, compared with 2024.

Tom’s Hardware

Bolt Graphics brings its RISC-V graphics cards to Ubuntu Summit — Zeus path tracing GPUs target film and animation industry

Bolt Graphics sent its Graphics Engineering Director to the Ubuntu Summit 25.10 to speak on the software behind its promising Zeus GPU lineup. Set to come in 2026, the Zeus GPU will be a RISC-V powered path-tracing giant, perfect for animators and VFX artists.

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