It’s not just you: Reddit is down
Reddit’s mobile and web applications went down on Wednesday afternoon, with more than 150,000 users reporting outages on Downdetector as of 1:30 p.m. in San Francisco. When trying to access…
Meta and Instagram spotted developing a new social music-sharing feature
Meta and Spotify are exploring deeper music integration in Meta’s Instagram app. New findings indicate the companies are testing a feature that would allow users to continuously share what music…
Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick
Generative AI models aren’t actually human-like. They have no intelligence or personality — they’re simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence. But like interns at a…
Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in France
Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on Saturday evening while leaving his private jet at France’s Le Bourget airport, as initially reported by French television…
The fallout after Bolt’s aggressive fundraising attempt has been wild
This past week was a wild one in the world of fintech as Bolt surprised the industry with a leaked term sheet that revealed it is trying to raise $200…
Piramidal’s foundation model for brainwaves could supercharge EEGs
AI models are being applied to every dataset under the sun, but are inconsistent in their outcomes. This is as true in the medical world as anywhere else, but a…
AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?
When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they’ll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are very slow to add AI solutions into their ongoing…
Apple is bringing audio sharing to Beats Studio Pro via firmware update
Beats Studio Pro are getting one of AirPods’ best features. A firmware update, noted by 9 to 5 Mac, is delivering multi-user audio sharing, allowing music to be streamed to…
OpenAI signs deal to train on Condé Nast content, surface stories in ChatGPT
OpenAI has inked a deal with Condé Nast — the publisher of storied outlets such as The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit and Wired — to surface stories…
Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity ‘technocapitalist’ school
Depending on your thoughts on the intersection of crypto and Silicon Valley’s libertarians, this is either a dream idea or an odd one: former a16z-investor Balaji Srinivasan has booked out…