Happy Thursday.
TIL:
2004 โ Kevin Rose launches Digg.
2005 โ Alexis Ohanian launches Reddit.
Alexis and Kevin: not friends.
2006 โ Reddit gets sold.
2012 โ Digg gets sold.
2026 โ Kevin and Alexis relaunch Digg.
Alexis and Kevin: BFFs.
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Enjoy today's news.
Digg launches its public beta, crossing 1,000 new communities in just 4 hours.
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Google releases โPersonal Intelligenceโ in Gemini, letting the AI use your Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube for personalized help.
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Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14, making it available only as a monthly subscription.
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Ryanair says no to Starlink on its planes, saying the antenna would add drag and hike fuel costs on short flights.
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Skild AI raises $1.4B at a $14B valuation to build an โomni-bodiedโ universal AI brain that can power any robot across tasks.
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Signalโs founder Moxie Marlinspike launches Confer, a โtruly privateโ assistant that canโt leak your chats thanks to end-to-end encryption and no data storage.
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Pete Lau, OnePlus CEO, faces an arrest warrant in Taiwan over allegedly illegally recruiting 70+ Taiwanese engineers.
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๐ updates Grokโs image rules after deepfake backlash, blocking edits of real people into sexualized content and tightening NSFW limits.
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Cursor built a full browser with GPT-5.2, writing 3M lines of code over a week of continuous agent time.
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AI models are starting to solve high-level math problems.
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