Google is now letting users in the US change their Gmail address: Users will be able to change their username only once every 12 months. Plus, they won't be able to delete their new email address for that period of time. Read More |
Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident: Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices. Read More |
Why OpenAI really shut down Sora: OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public, raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab? Read More |
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| The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse: Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers's tool and passing it off as its own. Read More |
Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J. D. Vance: More than 125,000 Bluesky users have blocked Attie in just a few days, sending a strong message from the user base. Read More |
A new connections app, Sonder, has a deliberately tedious sign-up process (and it's working): Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digital collage. Think MySpace rather than LinkedIn. Read More |
Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports: Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer. Read More |
Anthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party: Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never been more active — with Anthropic the hottest trade around, OpenAI losing ground, and SpaceX's looming IPO poised to reshape the landscape for everyone. Read More |
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Cash App launches 'pay later' feature for P2P transfers: Block says that the new feature has strong built-in protections to keep users from so-called debt spirals. Read More |
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