Year: 2026

“This is good” artist KC Green reaches agreement with artificial intelligence startup Artisan

“This is good” artist KC Green reaches agreement with artificial intelligence startup Artisan

✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Startups,artisan,kc green 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After criticizing a startup called Artisan for misusing his work, artist KC Green — creator of the popular "This is Fine" meme — said he has reached an agreement with Artisan. The dispute arose after the startup appeared to be using a version of Green's art to promote its AI assistant Ava. In Artisan's bus and subway ads, Green's signature dog sat amidst recognizable flames, but instead of saying "That's good," he announced, "My pipeline's on fire," while the ad urged…
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The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Note: These are personal reflections on how my workflow has shifted over the past year, not a pitch for any tool. Your mileage will (and probably should) vary. A few years back I wrote about my love of throwaway prototypes; those little proof-of-concepts that exist purely to get an idea out of your head and into something tangible. At the time, my biggest bottleneck was me; the time it took to scaffold a project, wire up the boring bits, and get to a place…
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Understanding the controversy surrounding AI psychosis

Understanding the controversy surrounding AI psychosis

🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,AI,Google,Aaron Levie,DuckDuckGo,Equity podcast,ai psychosis 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Box founder Aaron Levy got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs are “uniquely vulnerable to AI psychosis.” In the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosik, Sean O'Kane, and I did our best to explain Levy's comment. For one thing, we note that he does not disavow AI tools, but merely insists that CEOs actually need them is used Those tools to understand. This is a relatively mild note of skepticism compared to other…
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Talk is Cheap – by Jake

Talk is Cheap – by Jake

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This is a continuation of the discussion in How I’m thinking about the value of LLMs. I’m arguing elsewhere that LLMs will never be geniuses. This is not part 2 of The Ontology Argument.In How I’m thinking I said I wasn’t ready to take a stance on LLM value creation. That changes in this post. Here is the stance I’m taking:On average, how we’re using LLMs is likely destroying value.My stance originates from stumbling on Faros.ai - a software development telemetry firm. They have products…
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TechCrunch Mobility: It doesn’t matter that people hate Ferrari Los

TechCrunch Mobility: It doesn’t matter that people hate Ferrari Los

✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Ferrari,jony ive,Waymo,Rivian,robotaxis,techcrunch mobility,slate auto ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation, and now, more than ever, how AI plays a role. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free – just click TechCrunch Mobility! If you're a fan of electric cars or sports cars, you've surely seen the fight over Ferrari The first fully electric car, Los. Reaction has been swift and scathing for the five-seat electric car designed by an Apple veteran Jony Ive Its price is…
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Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows | Pancreas cancer

Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows | Pancreas cancer

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A daily pill can double survival time in patients with the world’s deadliest cancer, according to the results of a clinical trial that experts are saying is a “gamechanger” and one of the biggest breakthroughs in decades.Currently, there are few treatments for pancreatic cancer, and most do little or nothing to help. For decades, scientists have worked relentlessly trying to find clever solutions for a form of cancer that is often found late. More than half of patients are only diagnosed after it has spread.Now…
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Black founders raise the largest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a problem

Black founders raise the largest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a problem

🚀 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,black founders,DEI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: According to the latest Crunchbase data on Black founders, $643 million has flowed into Black-founded startups in the US since the beginning of the year — an amount not seen since 2022, when Black founders raised $653 million in funding. For context, Black founders raised $942 million in total venture funds last year (that's 0.32% of the total $290 billion, according to Crunchbase estimates). This means that in just a few months, Black founders have already raised nearly 70% of what they raised…
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Could AI be a “worthy successor” to humanity?

Could AI be a “worthy successor” to humanity?

🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: “I want AI to be a tool that allows human flourishing!” exclaimed Brad Carson, a former member of Congress. “There is an option out there where AI is just a tool for us.”This is a normal thing to say in most circles. But Carson was speaking at an invite-only symposium dedicated to the idea of creating a “Worthy Successor” — an AI so impressive, so beyond the mere human, that we’d actually want it to replace humanity.“You’re a brave man for entering this room!” Dan…
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The two biggest movies this weekend were directed by YouTubers

The two biggest movies this weekend were directed by YouTubers

✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,backrooms,Curry Barker,Kane parsons,obsession,YouTube 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The horror pipeline from YouTube to prestige looks pretty strong this weekend. No. 1 at the box office is "Backrooms," a feature film expansion of Kane Parsons' YouTube video series featuring bizarre found footage of a mysterious office space (taken from a 4chan thread) that defies physics. Parsons' "Backrooms" grossed $38 million on Friday and is expected to gross $80 million to $90 million at the domestic box office this weekend alone. For independent studio A24, this is its biggest opening…
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United Airlines 767 Returns To Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert

United Airlines 767 Returns To Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: United Airlines Bluetooth Threat Incident Credit: Flightradar24 According to flight tracking data, United Flight 236 from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to Palma De Mallorca Airport (PMI) departed Newark at 6:08 PM local time, and was approximately 60 minutes into its transatlantic journey before the security situation escalated. A passenger on the flight provided more details on Reddit, stating that a flight attendant told passengers over the PA system that they "must turn off Bluetooth immediately," or else the aircraft would have to turn around. Date…
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