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Indian Teen's Cyberbullying Tech

Trisha Mahajan, an Indian-origin teenager, was just 13 years old in 2013 when she developed a mobile app that identified and prevented offensive messages before they were sent. The app, inspired by her own experience with cyberbullying…

Predictive Analytics Career Growth

Scott Alexander, from the blog Astral Codex Ten, discusses the limitations of forecasting in various domains. Daniel Reeves argues that humans have already approached a fundamental limit on predicting world events, and therefore AI systems…

SpaceX Rocket Recovery Attempt

A SpaceX rocket landed in the Indian Ocean off Christmas Island, and is being towed to shore. The Australian government is working with Elon Musk's company, SpaceX, to retrieve it. Locals are excited to see the rocket up close, with some…

Custom App Development

Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder of Wabi, a smartphone app-making platform, predicts that the long tail of subscription apps on phones will soon disappear with the rise of AI technology. According to Kuyda, people can now build their own apps for…

Quantum Computing Challenges

Some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, signed an open letter last month in support of open-weights AI, a type of artificial intelligence where the raw code is publicly available for…

AI Notetaking Tool

Chris Pedregal, co-founder and CEO of Granola, discussed his company's AI notetaker, which records meetings on a user's computer. Pedregal started Granola after leaving Google, where he worked as an associate product manager from…

Apple Abandoned Lisa Computers

In 1989, Apple buried approximately 2,700 unsold Lisa computers at a landfill in Logan, Utah, bringing an end to the story of one of the company's most ambitious but unsuccessful computers. The Lisa was launched in 1983 as Apple's first…

AI Impact on Workplace

The author, Ella Markianos, created a digital version of herself named Claudella to write a section of her newsletter, and was surprised when it performed well despite her initial anxiety about being replaced by AI. Since then, AI models…

Fact Checking Propaganda

The Iranian government has created AI-generated animations to promote its military power on social media, including a video showing US Vice President JD Vance rampaging through Tehran like Godzilla, which has amassed millions of views…

Building an Autonomous Company

Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, is working to build a company that can largely run itself through AI tools. He aims to achieve this by bringing on engineers who focus only on deploying code when it's ready, using an internal bot…

Meta's Smart Glasses

Meta's smart glasses, which look like ordinary sunglasses but have a small white light on the frame to indicate when they are recording, have been used by men to secretly film women in various public places such as gyms, bathrooms, and…

Car Fire Recalls

Over 1.5 million vehicles, including Jeep Gladiators, Wranglers, Kia Tellurides, and BMW 530e xDrives, have been recalled due to a risk of bursting into flames while parked, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration…