Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm
The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI. — ∙ Paid — Andreessen Horowitz is perhaps … X: @iamhenrymascot , @doodcapital , @iamjakestream , @ctjlewis , @dennythedev , @amen...
After a backlash, Whoop says members with more than 12 months remaining are now automatically eligible for a free upgrade to 5.0
Your Gear News of the Week The Indian Express : Whoop faces backlash after cancelling free hardware upgrades Dana Wollman / Bloomberg : Whoop Faces Backlash After Charging Existing Users Upgrade Fee f...
A 28-year-old woman describes her “relationship” with ChatGPT, or Leo as the chatbot named itself, which became her therapist, erotic partner, and advisor
“It was supposed to be a fun experiment,” Aryin said of her A.I. relationship, “but then you start getting attached.” Bluesky: @sharonk , @beijingpalmer , @lakewitchhouse , @thewanderingjew , and @kas...
Tesla drops the price of its Full Self-Driving software subscription, which the company now calls FSD (Supervised), from $199 per month to $99 per month
“Tesla slashes Full Self-Driving monthly subscription to $99” — #tesla #cars #ev — https://electrek.co/... X: @tesla : You can now subscribe to FSD (Supervised) for $99/month in the US https://own...
A profile of Matt Farley, who has released thousands of songs under various pseudonyms on streaming services with the goal of matching nearly any search query
Matt Farley has released thousands of songs with the goal of producing a result to match nearly anything anybody could think to search for. Threads: @simondowens . X: @looseseal96 , @austinkleon , @br...
A profile of Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn, who co-created CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, as he predicts AI will eventually make computers better teachers than humans
Carina Chocano / New Yorker : LinkedIn: Charlene Tan , Monica Earle , and Kate Redman Tweets: @nicholasferroni , @pt , @thethirdhan , @chrisdier , @carina_chocano , @clinicalliz , @blgtylr , @brialle...
Q&A with Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker on the company's history, battling Microsoft, working with rivals, generative AI, WebKit, iOS, Chrome, Mastodon, and more
and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech https://www.theverge.com/... @alexanderchopan : “the closed nature of mobile phones is absolutely worth looking at and being engaged in. ...
Substack introduces private publications, search improvements, chat updates, post duplication, publication toggling, inline footnotes, LaTeX support, and more
At Substack, we believe great writing is valuable. Lulu Cheng Meservey / Flack : How to grow your newsletter audience Mashable : Substack launches ‘private’ newsletters Tweets: @substackinc : We're fo...
Elon Musk tweets an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation and baselessly suggests the former Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization
Elon Musk's “Twitter Files,” which supposedly reveal … Joseph Menn / Washington Post : Elon Musk uses QAnon tactic in criticizing former Twitter safety chief Livemint : Twitter character limit to incr...
Bari Weiss releases “Twitter Files Part Two”, sharing images of accounts that Twitter allegedly put on “blacklists” and screenshots of internal Slack messages
all in secret, without informing users. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @DavidSacks As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left Ashley Feinberg / @ashl...