Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos: Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their images as part of an AI-generated creation. Read More
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Mercor is in talks for a $20B valuation: A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October. Read More
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Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1: Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI companies to provide. Read More
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Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created: Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the sidelines. Read More
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Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI: Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on Anthropic’s chatbot. Read More
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Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users: Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs. Read More
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Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups: In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the headwinds facing early-stage founders today and the most common mistakes founders should avoid in order to get funded. Read More
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Slate Auto teams up with Crayola to color its EV truck: Slate has an answer for owners who have always want to drive a truck with bright crayon colors. Read More
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits: Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC-backed exits since 2000. Read More
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