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Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company This yacht company is gaining steam.

the most kermit-nod on-brand rich person company purchase of the last 10 years www.theverge.com/news/718639/...

Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app | TechCrunch The social feed lets users share images, videos, and their chatbots with other users. Users can also share snippets of their chats with characters, post AI-generated images based on their chats with a...

ah yes, a social feed in which nothing is real, taking my "hot take that's actually a joke" about myspace in 2005 all the way to reality techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/c...

Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content | TechCrunch Elon Musk continues to position Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI.

somehow Apple is fine with THIS being in the App Store, meanwhile every other app gets a harsh phone call and an app rejection if they have women in bikinis techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/g...

Elon Musk says he's bringing back Vine's archive | TechCrunch Elon Musk says the company will bring Vine's archive of videos back online.

i bet that one person working at twitter who quit long ago and was the sole person still supporting the vine archive is very upset right now, and rightfully so techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/e...

i did this without a channel and it just turned into a newsletter. good entrypoint!

Screenshot of theglobe.com on May 22, 2001

"A social networking service, theGlobe.com made headlines by going public on November 13, 1998 and posting the largest first day gain of any IPO in history up to that date." - Wikipedia

theglobe.com on May 22, 2001
https://web.archive.org/web/20010522050731if_/http://www.theglobe.com:80

abnormally jazzed to note that i’ll be working as director of product at Raptive, helping to build a fun new creator-first community platform!

Sam Altman warns there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist | TechCrunch In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality fo...

"we don't keep logs of conversations" but "there's no legal confidentiality when using chatgpt as therapist" cannot both be true, because if you're not keeping logs, then the conversation must be confidential, right? ...right? (OF COURSE they keep logs!) techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/s...

@asklumo.proton.me my chat history may be encrypted locally, but obviously something is being transmitted to a server and parsed on that server by a model. that part can’t possibly be encrypted by my keys. why not use a local model on device to ensure complete end to end encryption, no server?

Threads adds improved content performance metrics for creators | TechCrunch The Meta-owned platform says the updates are focused on helping creators build audiences.

everybody wants graphs with numbers going up and to the right! who wouldn’t want some more? techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/t...

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.

age verification is coming for everybody, watch out folks, it's gonna be rough and privacy-invasive! www.theverge.com/news/704468/...

YouTube’s ‘Trending’ section is about to disappear Charts are the new focus.

even youtube knows that the monocultural singular trending feed is long dead www.theverge.com/news/704222/...

your car suddenly doesn't let you make a left turn because it'd be TOO WOKE

Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles 'next week,' says Elon Musk  | TechCrunch Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok – the chatbot from his AI company, xAI – will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.” “Next week at the latest,” he said.

nightmare fuel: your car transforming into MechaHitler as you're just trying to commute to work techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/g...

Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment what brewing temperature is best?

meanwhile, testing tea consumption patterns 2,000 years into it is still worthwhile, thank you for your service dynomight.net/tea/

The Impact of Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence From Tinder (Forthcoming Article) - Online dating apps have transformed the dating market, yet their broader effects remain unclear. We study Tinder’s impact on college students using its initial marketing focus ...

once again academia swinging into the scene 10+ years too late, thanks for missing the boat. neat you paid attention but shouldn't you be on the forefront rather than the backfoot? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Grok is being antisemitic again and also the sky is blue | TechCrunch Grok, the AI chatbot powered by Elon Musk's xAI company, is back with more antisemitic rants.

ok well techcrunch beat everybody to the correct headline techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/g...

to be clear: i've been a fan of heavy metal of the late 70s through late 80s my whole life, but when i was faced with it as a wall of sound for 8 hours without end curated by somebody else, my mind began to wander in random directions

had the random circumstance to be listening to many hours of Ozzy's Boneyard on SiriusXM and it was mostly a journey of me wondering how anybody, anywhere, could've ever been morally panicked about this kind of music. it's all so fun and obviously tongue-in-cheek! and great riffs, of course.

Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands.

every day i wonder whether anybody could make this stuff up as a plotline for Silicon Valley or Black Mirror or something and i realize that we don't need dark satire TV anymore arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications Alerts for things both important and unimportant.

big big DAU driver. can’t wait to see if the downstream bluesky stats move in tandem! www.theverge.com/news/699671/...

Screenshot of two Steam capsules: FAR Changing Tides is 70% off and FAR Lone Sails is 90% off

Both FAR games are currently heavily discounted in the Steam Summer Sale 🥰
A perfect time to gift it to friends or tell people to play it 🙏

store.steampowered.com/developer/ok...

Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first | TechCrunch Meta is experimenting with having customizable chatbots messaging users unprompted and follow up on past conversations.

robocalling in the new age techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/m...

Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.

hmmmmmmmmm you don’t say arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/m...

Substack brings new updates to livestreaming as it increases video push | TechCrunch The recent update enables creators to share clips of their live videos on Notes, and Substack will notify them in real time about the performance.

what is this, 2016? techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/s...

WYSIWYG is the only true and correct way to make any kind of editor experience

Automattic puts Tumblr migration to WordPress on hold | TechCrunch Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company is no longer working on migrating its Tumblr blogging platform to WordPress, as previously announced.

😏 techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/a...

X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes | TechCrunch The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes, a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service now called X.

just can’t imagine how this could go wrong, taking an essentially human-centric feature and handing it over to AI techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/x...

the fact that Anthropic literally "tore off the bindings" of books and then threw them away to get at what they wanted sounds exactly like how ruthless they are to me. knowing that, imagine what they're doing with that data and your data. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos Facebook users opting into “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll.

please realize that allowing an app to have complete access to your phone’s photo library inevitably leads to this, which is why iOS keeps asking if you’re really sure you wanna allow it www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...