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Bluesky's CEO talks about Attie, a new agentic social app built on Bluesky's AT Protocol that uses Claude and lets users 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 you to design your own algorithm …
More: The Liquid Frontier, Gizmodo, The AI Economy, The Verge, Engadget, and Ubergizmo
Bluesky: @attie.ai, @mmatt.net, @jay.bsky.team, @greblin, @laurenshof.online, @why.bsky.team, @attie.ai, @attie.ai, @parismarx.com, @bsky-brief.eurosky.social, @emfields, @civilwarmemory, @jongraywb.blacksky.app, @jay.bsky.team, @tcparker, and @craigburley.com
Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange and @mastodonmigration …
Forums: r/BlueskySocial, r/BetterOffline, and Slashdot
| 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.
More: TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and The Interview on YouTube
| 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 …
More: PYMNTS.com, Unite.AI, The Deep View, The AI Economy, Tech in Asia, and Axios
X: @arielmichaeli and @techcrunch
| Jemima McEvoy / The Information: |
Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue “significantly surpassed” $200M in 2023, and has “gone up” since then, despite its declining web traffic — Over much of the past year, David Holz, the 37-year-old founder of Midjourney, has devoted himself to a single task … | 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: Implicator.ai and 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. LinkedIn: Andrei Lopatenko
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X: @vkhosla, @karpathy, @heynavtoor, and @garymarcus. Bluesky: @jenlucpiquant. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/LateStageCapitalism
| 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 … | Alex Isenstadt / Axios: |
Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda — A new pro-AI political operation is jumping into this year's midterms with a plan to spend more than $100 million … | Business Insider: |
Some developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause — - Apple's App Store is seeing an influx of new apps each month. — Developers say the flood of apps is increasing wait times.
More: 9to5Mac and Mashable
X: @jazzychad, @nikitabier, @noahpinion, @michael_kove, @themaran, @elonmusk, @paularambles, @austen, @flyosity, and @_eseidel. Mastodon: @Tamasg@mindly.social
Forums: r/appledevelopers, r/iOSProgramming, and r/appledevelopers
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Coinbase One and other insurance-like plans for crypto users that typically exclude coverage for many kinds of account hacks, including phishing scams — When Matthew Allan realized nearly $100,000 in Bitcoin was missing from his Coinbase account, he wasn't too worried.| 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, and @popbijoux
| 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 … | 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| 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
| 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: @yacinemtb, @elonmusk, @aakashgupta, @firstadopter, @ashleymayer, @leahlibresco, @kylebrussell, @selkis_2028, @tekbog, @bigmeaninternet, @palmyrpar, @chazakieldoremi, @lokijulianus, @i_zzzzzz, @keachhagey, @ns123abc, @menhguin, @aliama, @katiemiller, @rahll, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @teortaxestex, @megabasedchad, @livgorton, @keachhagey, and @keachhagey. Bluesky: @shiraovide. Forums: r/singularity
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