🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Tens of millions of people take creatine every day. They bought it for their muscles. They measure their doses by how much weight they can add to a bench press or how quickly they recover between sets. Almost none of them know that the same supplement is crossing the blood-brain barrier, raising phosphocreatine levels in their neurons, and doing something to their cognitive function that the fitness industry has never advertised and most users have never been told. A comprehensive review published in the…
✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **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…
đź’Ą Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **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…
🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Startups,AI,Google,Aaron Levie,DuckDuckGo,Equity podcast,ai psychosis đź’ˇ **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…
🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **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…
✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Transportation,Ferrari,jony ive,Waymo,Rivian,robotaxis,techcrunch mobility,slate auto âś… **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…
đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **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…
🚀 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Startups,Venture,black founders,DEI âś… **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…
🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **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…
✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **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…
