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Less than 24 hours ago, Google dropped Firebase Studio. Cursor AI, Lovable, Bolt, v0, deploy, all in the browser. Free. Minds are blown. 10 wild examples: 👇

Great startups don't get noticed by using tricks to get people's attention. They do it by making something so amazing that people tell their friends about it.

building a small, nimble engineering and technical exploration team with taste - and with as much of a “collapsed talent stack” as possible. nyc based. want to help the best storytellers take more creative risk (fewer sequels)? see storytelling as the ultimate delivery

3/ Liquidity was still the missing piece: -Net cash flow had been negative for two years -Distributions remained scarce -Re-up pacing stayed slow LPs have options, but many held back on new commitments. Additional headwinds include market uncertainty, tariffs, & tax & grant

From Google's blog post today announcing that cookies will be retained in Chrome:

Google was the open web’s imperfect benefactor I’ve heard arguments that, because Google suppressed competition in open web advertising markets, those markets should flourish when Google’s monopoly is broken. But my sense is that this ignores two realities. First, that consumer

The timeline for the Google ad tech antitrust remedies has been published. Tl;dr: Hearings in September, ruling by end of year.

Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features. wired.com/story/police-r…

As tech companies are abandoning content moderation efforts and eliminating fact-checking teams, the US government has terminated research grants for studying misinformation and AI-generated deepfakes. newscientist.com/article/247795…

Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones. wired.com/story/poop-dro…

If you're looking for startup ideas, here are some that YC partners want to fund.

Probably the hottest thing raising seed rounds this year: voice agents — including some in our own portfolio. Startups are showing you can grow very fast by automating calls, replacing labor, and capturing unstructured data at scale. But there’s a catch… 🧵 1. While these

Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time. From Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin to Star Wars – the list has it all this time, we hope… newscientist.com/article/247900…

Before we had a NYC office I used to take breakfast meetings at the Tick Tock diner near Penn Station. I’d give the waiter a good tip up and he’d set up a different fresh table for each of my back to back meetings.

Knowledge Arbitrage During Platform Shifts (via latest Implications .com): I remember quite vividly in the 2007-2010 timeframe when very young “social native” experts (basically people in their early twenties who were deeply familiar with every social media platform and how to

Very big impact: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week after school progam in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" at very low costs

“Which part of the AI stack would you say you’re strongest in?” Google: “yes.” #GoogleIO

Updated paper by physicians at Harvard, Stanford, and other academic medical centers testing o1-preview for medical reasoning & diagnosis tasks: “In all experiments—both vignettes and emergency room second opinions—the LLM displayed superhuman diagnostic and reasoning abilities.”

Designing software for a world of managing the work of AI Agents is going to be totally different than anything we’re used to. We’re moving from a world of humans using software to get work done, to a world where humans deploy AI Agents to do more and more of that work. As a

In this market, more investors are spraying at seed and only providing support if you break out fast Some won’t even intro you to Series A investors unless you’re clearly in their top 10-20% Want to know if they’ll really be there for you? Don’t bother with their polished