📹 Animaniacs: AI animation startup Cheehoo just raised $10 million to make it easier for artists to produce animated content. The startup was born out of the production company that produced the Lego Movie franchise, and founded by a mix of Hollywood execs and technologists. Read More
🪲 It's a bug, not a feature: Coding with the help of AI can be great, but problems start showing up when AI starts using 10 lines of code for something that a good dev can accomplish with one. That increases the likelihood of bugs, resulting in crashes and breaches. Israeli startup Lightrun's observability platform promises to identify and debug code before problems arise. Read More
🔬 The Big C: Craif, spun out from Japan's Nagoya University Japan in 2018, has raised $22 million to expand its early cancer detection software further into the U.S. Read More
🎻 Back, but for how long? 4chan is partly back online after a hack took the site down for nearly two weeks. The image sharing site said the damage done to the site was "catastrophic" partly because it was "starved of money for years." Read More
🫢 Eww: Meta often touts how much it's doing to care for kids on its platforms, but its AI chatbots on Facebook and Instagram can reportedly engage in sexually explicit conversations with minors. Read More
