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AirB&B plans to house 20,000 Afghan refugees amid the Taliban's rise to power in Afghanistan.

AirB&B CEO Brian Chesky said yes. Taliban's rise to power in Afghanistan.

AirB&B CEO Brian Chesky said yesterday that the company will cover the costs for the

housing, using funds from contributions to its nonprofit AirB&B.org and a specific refugee fund established by that division as well as

personal contributions from Chesky himself. In other news Spotify is opening

access to podcast subscriptions to all podcast creators in the U.S.

After first launching the service for testing with a smaller number of creators back in April.

Through Spotify's podcast creation tool anchor

podcasters of all sizes will now be able to mark select episodes as

subscriber-only content, then publish them to Spotify and other platforms.

And Weimo, the self-driving vehicle company under Alphabet,

has launched a robo-taxi service that will be open to certain vetted riders in San Francisco.

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