Mozilla is shutting down Pocket - and I am supremely put out

With years of carefully saved reading material at risk, longtime users of the social bookmarking service are furious. Here's what happens now. [...]

Mozilla is so out of Pocket for shutting down one of my favorite apps

With years of carefully saved reading material at risk, longtime users of the social bookmarking service are furious. Here's what happens now. [...]

New AI framework autonomously optimizes training data, architectures and algorithms — outperforming human baselines

AI R&D runs on a cycle of hypothesis, experiment, and analysis — each step demanding substantial manual engineering effort. A new framework from researchers at SII-GAIR aims to close that bottle [...]

Zurich’s Rapidata raises €7.2M to build a real-time human feedback network for AI

A growing number of startups are rushing to build software that thinks fast. But one of the hardest parts of teaching machines to improve isn’t raw computing power, it’s human insight at scale. Zu [...]

A viral band on Spotify is probably AI — but there’s no label to tell you

AI slop songs are flooding Spotify — and the latest hit is by an indie rock band called The Velvet Sundown. The track’s success has intensified the ongoing debate on whether or not music streaming [...]

Trump threatens a 25 percent tariff on all smartphones not made in the US

After threatening Apple with a 25 percent tariff unless the company found a way to move iPhone production to the US, Bloomberg reports that President Donald Trump wants the tariff applied to other pho [...]

Builder.ai collapse exposes dangers of ‘FOMO investing’ in AI

The collapse of Builder.ai exposes the growing threat of “FOMO investing,” according to an expert in tech growth intelligence. Builder had become one of Britain’s best-funded startups, but is no [...]

Why Women With Type 2 Diabetes Are Diagnosed Later Than Men

Researchers are trying to understand more about the biological and social differences that contribute to later diabetes diagnoses and worse outcomes in women. [...]

The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit

Slash, the vertical banking platform built by two college dropouts, has raised a $100M Series C backed by Khosla Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company’s valuation has nearly quadrupled since its [...]