😼 Copycat starter pack: One of Bluesky's nicest features is its starter packs, which are essentially lists of people to follow if you are interested in a certain topic. Naturally, Meta's Threads is working to develop the same feature. Read more
™️ Trademark time: OpenAI filed a trademark application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for "OpenAI o1," the name of the "reasoning" AI model the company released a few months ago. Read more
🎭 The drama! Xiaodi Hou, co-founder and former CEO of self-driving truck company TuSimple, is demanding that the board liquidate the company and return all remaining funds to shareholders. Hou is also suing the company and his former co-founder. Read more
🎤 Podcast production: Have you ever consumed a piece of media and thought, "Wow, I wish I could hear this in the form of a multispeaker podcast?" If so, Voice AI company ElevenLabs built a feature called GenFM to do just that. Read more
😎 TikTok sets limits: She's beauty, she's grace, she's under 18 so she can't use that filter on her face. TikTok is limiting the use of some of its appearance-altering filters for users under 18 as the company continues to get slammed for its impact on minors' mental health. Read more
📈 Searching for scale: European Union president Ursula von der Leyen told Parliament members in a speech that to remain competitive, the EU will need to close the "innovation gap." Read more
