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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky's CEO talks about their new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky's AT Protocol, which uses Claude and enables users to build custom feeds — The team from Bluesky has built another app — and this time, it's not a social network, but an AI assistant that allows …
More: The Liquid Frontier, Engadget, and The AI Economy
X: @durvidimel. LinkedIn: Andres Castañeda. Bluesky: @attie.ai, @mmatt.net, @jay.bsky.team, @greblin, @laurenshof.online, @why.bsky.team, @attie.ai, @attie.ai, @bsky-brief.eurosky.social, @emfields, @civilwarmemory, @tcparker, and @craigburley.com. Mastodon: @mastodonmigration …
Forums: r/BlueskySocial and r/BetterOffline
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year — Whatever the final outcome for Anthropic from its feud with the Department of Defense, the attention it has generated … | Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: |
More: Runtime, MacRumors, Gizmodo, TechRadar, and Implicator.ai
X: @trq212, @theo, @trq212, @trq212, @tekbog, @edsocra, @matthewberman, @vivianmshen, @weswinder, @reach_vb, @edzitron, @weswinder, @buccocapital, @pranit, @sawyerhood, @bradgroux, @mariofilhoml, @grady_booch, @elvissun, @thdxr, and @gergelyorosz. Bluesky: @carnage4life
| Financial Times: |
Vinod Khosla says AI is accelerating a shift of wealth and power away from workers, and an income tax overhaul in the US could offset voter fears about job loss — Vinod Khosla says voter fears over technology causing job losses will shape upcoming US elections
More: Implicator.ai
| Logan Bartlett / @loganbartlett: |
A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI — This week I co-wrote Redpoint's 2026 Market Update for our Limited Partners with my colleagues @AdilBhatia and @lydianday.
X: @dsamuel, @bstg, @tastybits, @popbijoux, and @cap90647987
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign a drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75B, with $115M in upfront payments — BEIJING — U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has reached a $2.75 billion deal to bring drugs developed using artificial intelligence …
More: Financial Times, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, Insilico Medicine, The Decoder, and Yahoo Finance
| John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: |
Analysis: while social media rewards sensationalism and inflammatory content, LLMs guide people away from extreme positions and towards expert-aligned stances — Large language models elevate expert consensus and moderate views, in sharp contrast to social platforms © FT montage/Getty Images …
More: Paul Kedrosky. X: @stefanfschubert, @elliotrades, @kvallier, @garrytan, @jaybaxter, @undersecpd, @rachaelrad, @ryankatzrosene, @danshipper, @zachweinberg, @brian_stoffel_, @ericlevitz, @arctotherium42, @baldingsworld, @hashtaggriswold, @thelincoln, @valkenburgh, @greenplusane, @mattyglesias, @nathanpmyoung, @dkthomp, @silvervvulpes, @punicist, @xlr8harder, @jobhakdi, and @noahpinion. Bluesky: @emollick. Forums: r/aiwars
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More: Science, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Associated Press, The Register, The Decoder, The Economic Times, Newser, AI for Automation, San Francisco Examiner, Scientific American, Jezebel, and Queerty
X: @vkhosla, @karpathy, @heynavtoor, and @garymarcus. Bluesky: @jenlucpiquant. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/LateStageCapitalism
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week — ‘Fruit Love Island’ averages over 10 million views for each of its episodes — A new viral dating show featuring sexy … | Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin — Personal wounds and power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world encounters the technology
More: Moneycontrol and The Decoder
X: @ashleymayer, @leahlibresco, @kylebrussell, @selkis_2028, @tekbog, @bigmeaninternet, @palmyrpar, @chazakieldoremi, @lokijulianus, @i_zzzzzz, @keachhagey, @ns123abc, @menhguin, @aakashgupta, @aliama, @katiemiller, @rahll, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @teortaxestex, @megabasedchad, @livgorton, @keachhagey, and @keachhagey. Bluesky: @shiraovide. Forums: r/singularity
| Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times: |
Q&A with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on the platform's dominance, its impact on kids, the suspension and reinstatement of Trump's YouTube account, AI slop, and more — YouTube is now the leading way Americans watch video. Its audience is young; an astonishing 90 percent of American teenagers are on the platform.| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator — Follow Grace Kay … - Elon Musk started xAI with 11 cofounders in 2023. — The last remaining one, Ross Nordeen, has now exited the company.
More: Gizmodo, Benzinga, The Economic Times, The Next Web, TechCrunch, and Implicator.ai
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was “rattled” on the stand — Plaintiff's attorney Mark Lanier uses props and parables to challenge social-media giants, drugmakers and manufacturers …
More: RTÉ
| Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: |
Qualified Health, which helps health systems evaluate and adopt AI tools, raised a $125M Series B led by NEA at a valuation of between $500M and $1B — Qualified Health Artificial Intelligence New Enterprise Associates SignalFire — Qualified Health, a startup that works with health systems …
More: Implicator.ai, Qualified Health, Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, HIT Consultant, and MobiHealthNews
| Kevin Lincoln / Bloomberg: |
Chess grandmasters find new ways to win by making less optimal moves after AI pushed classical chess toward perfect play, breathing new life into the game — Artificial intelligence drove chess toward perfect play, leading to more draws at top tournaments. Now grandmasters are winning by making less optimal moves.
X: @chessdom and @business. Bluesky: @promptslinger
Forums: r/Foodforthought, r/TrueReddit, and r/longform
| Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: |
ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected — The European Commission has allegedly been breached by ShinyHunters, with reported data dumps including content from mail servers.
More: BleepingComputer, Hackread, European Commission, Cyber Security News, Network World, Engadget, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/eutech
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