🏋 AI authority: Renowned solo VC Elad Gil returned to the StrictlyVC Download podcast this week to talk about his new AI strategy, which involves buying up "traditional" businesses and using AI to help them modernize and scale.
🔎 Privacy, please: Reddit is rolling out a new update meant to increase users' privacy on the platform. It's adding a "Content and Activity" setting that allows people to decide what kind of content from the subreddits they participate in will show up on their profile.
🐺 Call of the wild: "De-extinction" startup Colossal Labs caused quite a stir a few months ago when it claimed to have brought dire wolves back from extinction. Now the company is saying it will release the sounds of them howling later this year.
♻️ Carbon offset: Meta said it's paying billions of dollars to keep an Illinois power plant running through 2047. Interestingly, this isn't a ploy to get the plant's power to a Meta data center — an increasingly common strategy —but rather to lower the company's carbon footprint.
🎨 AI art? Allegedly there's a movie in the works about Sam Altman's ousting and reinstatement at OpenAI in 2023. I'd love to know what the estimated audience is here considering a lot of folks outside of tech have no clue who Altman is — even if they use ChatGPT.
