The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization than the boom unleashed by the microprocessor: diffuse global benefits but few new fortunes
The disruption is real. It's also predictable. — ISSUE 04 — Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors … X: @actaccordingly , @shearic , @joincolossus , @sameer_singh17 ,...
Instagram appears to be testing an AI chatbot feature, similar to Snapchat's My AI, that offers 30 AI personalities for answering questions and giving advice
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Anthropic's Series C pitch deck shows the AI startup aims to raise up to $5B over the next two years to take on OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries
Anthropic plans to train a powerful model with billions in new funding — AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise …
Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a final ruling; the site's mods say most ChatGPT answers are wrong
Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
Pathmatics: over a third of Twitter's top 100 clients, including Mars and Jeep, as well as 14 of the top 50, haven't advertised on Twitter in the past two weeks
all in the name of some grade-school version of free speech — enables amplification of hate, incitement, the old twitter cesspool. Seth Abramson / @sethabramson : (MORE) Musk canno...
An interview with MetaMask co-founders who say “we can't stop people from making Ponzis on blockchains” and “putting your money in cryptocurrencies is gambling”
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources
a big departure from how it currently works. That and more changes here: https://www.theverge.com/... Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Leaving even more room for new startups to re...
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss that Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not an anti-blockchain conspiracy
lashing out at skeptics in a way usually reserved for CEOs of fraudulent companies. How did we get here? 1/ https://twitter.com/... Ben McKenzie / @ben_mckenzie : One interesting v...
Sources: Substack dropped efforts to raise money, after talks to raise $75M-$100M at a $750M-$1B valuation, during which the company said 2021 revenue was ~$9M
Good afternoon! Today, Realm's no-code beta enters it's … Michael Spencer / Creator Economy Tips : Substack Halts Plans for Series C Funding Casey Newton / Platformer : Substack's...
Delivery startup Gorillas lays off half its “global office workforce”, around 300 people, and will reassess its operations in Italy, Spain, Denmark, and Belgium
An unsustainable business or just a side effect of the tech downturn? — Grocery app Gorillas … Source: gorillas.io .
Opera unveils Crypto Browser Project, with a beta browser for Windows, Mac, and Android, with a crypto wallet, access to crypto/NFT exchanges, dApps, and more
Opera has launched its Web3 “Crypto Browser” into beta with features like a built-in crypto wallet, easy access to cryptocurrency/NFT exchanges …
After a reported theft, OpenSea freezes 16 Bored Ape and Mutant Ape NFTs, worth ~$2.3M, leading some to point out the NFT space's lack of decentralization
Once upon a time, there was a monkey. Catherine Forrest / Shelf Life : Flimflam Fantasy Crypto Chronicles Casey Newton / Platformer : The Bored Ape art heist and crypto's trust and...
Internal docs show Amazon is struggling to retain Alexa device users; in some years between 2018-2021, 15%-25% of new users were no longer active after one week
Facebook is rolling out Reels to all US mobile users, after launching a beta last month, and announces a Reels Play bonus program for creators
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Epic to shut down Houseparty, the video chat app it acquired in 2019, in October, along with Fortnite Mode, which uses Houseparty for video chats
Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down.
Roblox adds voice chat, initially in some games as “spatial audio” where players chat with others around them, and plans a Discord-like persistent voice chat
Callin, a social audio app founded by David Sacks that offers tools for turning live recordings into podcasts, raises $12M Series A led by Sequoia and others
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue of $1.34B, up nearly 300% YoY, with Gross Booking Value of $13.4B, up 320% YoY, and net loss of $68M, down 88% YoY
The travel rebound is upon us and Airbnb is leading the way. Paul R. La Monica / WRAL TechWire : Airbnb's warning: Delta variant means future bookings will be ‘more volatile’ Dunca...
Snap says 5,400+ creators earned $130M in total via its Spotlight incentive program and it will stop giving away $1M per day to creators starting June 1
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Snap unveils its first AR glasses, with four built-in microphones, two stereo speakers, and a touchpad, and says it will test them with some AR effects creators
The fourth-gen glasses have built-in AR displays — Snap's new Spectacles glasses are its most ambitious yet.