Texas Attorney General accuses meta of misleading children’s characters, mental health claims
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studios and characters, according to a press release issued Monday. “In today’s digital age, we must continue to fight to protect Texas children from deceptive and exploitative techniques,” Paxton is quoted as saying. “Under the guise of a source of emotional support, […]
Hank Green’s Focus Friends App Climbs to App Store Chart – It’s very cute
You need to keep focused. You cannot open Tiktok, Instagram, or a small phone game you want to play. If it fails, the knitting project will rely on its ability to maintain focus, making anthropomorphic beans very sad. This is the premise of Focus Friend, a productivity app created by Honey B Games and Hank […]
Subsack writers can now direct readers to iOS (often cheaper) web-based subscriptions
Substack, the newsletter subscription platform, will begin taking advantage of the US app store options that allow users to purchase outside of Apple’s in-app purchase system. This feature is permitted by a change to the App Store rules in May as a result of an anti-trust lawsuit against the tech giant by Epic Games. Since […]
Why Paradigm built spreadsheets using AI agents for every cell
Anna Monaco has been building AI agents even before the term “AI agent.” After building a number of chatbots, she began looking for other types of interfaces that would make sense to AI agents and landed on a spreadsheet. “I had this personal pattern, but I realized that many other people have this pattern. This […]
Link Tree is dark in India – and the company doesn’t know why
Linktree, a popular link-in bio service used by millions of creators and businesses, was not accessible in India for several days. The sudden loss of failure from the Indian web remains a mystery to the Australian startup itself. Over the past week, Linktree is inaccessible in India, with several users raising the issue on X. […]
HR’s huge labor day says hackers stole personal data in recent violations
Workday, one of the biggest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breaches that allow hackers to steal personal information from one of their third-party customer relationship databases. In a blog post published late Friday, the HR Technology giant said the hackers had stole unspecified personal information from the database. Workday did not […]
Confusion now supports live revenue call transcripts for Indian Stocks
The AI Startup Confusion is bolstering its financial dashboard with live transcripts of quarterly revenue calls for public Indian companies and calendars showing results and outcome conference calls schedules. In addition to the surface of the market news, Perplexity’s Finance Dashboard offers market overviews, stock exchange charts and top performance. The dashboard allows users to […]
Grammarly gets design overhaul, multiple AI features
Grammarly has a new document-based interface built behind CODA, a productivity startup that we acquired last year. The interface also includes AI assistants and several AI tools for students and professionals, such as AI graders, proofreaders and quote finders. The new interface can adopt a block-first approach to insert tables, columns, separators, lists, and headers. […]
Stranger Things creators may be leaving Netflix
Netflix could soon lose its creative team following one of its biggest hits. Earlier this week, Variety and other Hollywood publications reported that Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers who created “Stranger Things,” were in discussions with the brothers who wrote and directed many of the episodes, to sign an exclusive deal with Paramount (now […]
CEO Duolingo says the controversial AI memo has been misunderstood
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was criticised loudly this year after declaring Duolingo to become “AI-First Company,” but he suggested in a new interview that the real problem was “did not give sufficient context.” “Internally, this was uncontroversial,” von Ann told The New York Times. “Externally, as a public company, some people think it’s just […]