After delays, X updates Community Notes fact-checks to improve speed and distribution
After X’s crowdsourced fact-checking system faced multi-day delays to correct misinformation on the platform, the company formerly known as Twitter has announced a series of improvements...
Medium expects to be profitable in 2024 as it climbs towards 1M subscribers
Online publishing platform Medium has led a bit of a tumultuous life. Seeking to thread the needle as it tried to be both a publisher and...
Bluesky gets its first third-party mobile app with Graysky, launching later this month
Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative, is getting its first third-party app for mobile users: a new app called Graysky. Though numerous Bluesky projects built on...
Israeli biotech startup mana.bio launches AI-fueled programmable drug therapy
Israeli biotech startup Mana.bio has been planning to launch its programmable drug treatment solution for months, and decided to forge ahead in spite of the attacks...
Google’s AI-powered search experience can now generate images, write drafts
Google’s AI-powered search feature, SGE (Search Generative Experience), is gaining some new skills, starting today. The AI feature, which introduces a conversational mode in Search, is...
Lanch, which creates food delivery brands for influencers, gobbles up $6.9M
Two of the biggest drivers of growth on social and e-commerce platforms have been food and influencers, so it should come as no surprise that startups...
Cloud gaming firm Shadow says hackers stole customers’ personal data
French technology company Shadow has confirmed a data breach involving customers’ personal information.
The Paris-headquartered startup, which offers gaming through its cloud-based PC service, said in an...
Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi
Block, the Jack Dorsey-founded fintech company previously known as Square, has acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup.
Hifi founder and CEO Damian Manning announced the news in...
Stock trading API developer Alpaca raises $15M convertible note from SBI Group
Investing apps help anyone access the stock market to make trades. Alpaca, a San Mateo-based startup, offers stock and crypto brokerage trading services via API that...
Fave, the app for superfans, raises $2M as it continues to reward users for...
Fave, the app for superfans to connect with like-minded music lovers and obsess over their favorite artists, secured $2 million in an ongoing round, the company...