Apple hires another Tesla engineer; Alphabet launches AI drug company; and a chat with Raghunandan G, founder and CEO of Zolve

Apple has recruited another former Tesla engineer to build its electric car team, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. The latest hire is Christopher Moore, a software engineer, who will report to Stuart Bowers, another former Tesla executive who joined Apple last year. Bowers had led Tesla’s Autopilot team before leaving Tesla in mid-2019, according to Bloomberg. Meanwhile, Tesla’s founder and the world’s richest person Elon Musk, polled his Twitter followers on whether he should sell 10 percent of his stock ostensibly to pay taxes. Some critics tweeted back that wealth shouldn’t be a way to avoid taxes and that Musk’s reason that unrealised gains didn’t hold water is that he’s able to take out bank loans on the stock. Google’s parent company Alphabet has set up a new company to use artificial intelligence to find new drugs. The new company, Isomorphic Labs, will be based in Britain and use the AI developed at DeepMind—the UK AI company that Google acquired in 2014. Isomorphic Labs is “a commercial venture with the mission to reimagine the entire drug discovery process from first principles with an AI-first approach and, ultimately, to model and understand some of the fundamental mechanisms of life,” Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, said in a blog post on Thursday last week. Hassabis is also the founder and CEO of Isomorphic Labs. While the new company was announced last week, it was incorporated in February, according to a filing with Companies House, Britain’s company registry, CNBC reported. WhatsApp could be developing a ‘Communities’ feature, WABetaInfo reports. The feature could give group admins more control over the groups, including creating groups within groups. WABetaInfo also posted some screenshots to show that currently, the feature looks like group chats and that it also seems to be end-to-end encrypted. Admins can invite other people to join the community. Users can be manually added or they can join using a ‘Community Invite Link,’ if the admin has shared it privately or publicly, according to the report. (2:54) Interview: Raghunandan G, founder and CEO of Zolve, on plans after a $40 million Series A funding In February, the entrepreneur turned investor Raghunandan G had announced that he was starting a new venture—this time a fintech startup that would offer cross-border services to Indians going abroad to study and work. Recently, Raghu, as he’s known to everyone, raised a $40 million Series A round with big names like DST Global and Tiger Global backing his company, called Zolve, which already had marquee early-stage investors like Accel and Lightspeed, from its seed round. Response to Zolve has been beyond expectations and having started with Indians moving to the US, the company is quickly gaining traction as an operation that could tap other corridors around the world as well, he told Forbes India in a recent conversation.