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1. Ali Partovi may not dominate headlines, but his influence is felt heavily in the tech world. His eight-year-old venture firm Neo has operated under the thesis of revolutionizing how exceptional talent is discovered, and his strategy appears to be paying off. Read More

2. The next frontier: The race to build quantum computing chips is on as companies see the potential to solve the world's biggest problems in fields from medicine to cybersecurity. We've got a roundup of the startups taking up the challenge in a way that Big Tech may be too slow and over-resourced to do. Read More

3. Messy business: Julie Wainwright, the founder of The RealReal, has come out with a tell-all memoir that details not only her rise through the tech world in the 90s dot-com era, but also how she was pushed out of her company by board members she recommended. Read More

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📹 Animaniacs: AI animation startup Cheehoo just raised $10 million to make it easier for artists to produce animated content. The startup was born out of the production company that produced the Lego Movie franchise, and founded by a mix of Hollywood execs and technologists. Read More

🪲 It's a bug, not a feature: Coding with the help of AI can be great, but problems start showing up when AI starts using 10 lines of code for something that a good dev can accomplish with one. That increases the likelihood of bugs, resulting in crashes and breaches. Israeli startup Lightrun's observability platform promises to identify and debug code before problems arise. Read More

🔬 The Big C: Craif, spun out from Japan's Nagoya University Japan in 2018, has raised $22 million to expand its early cancer detection software further into the U.S. Read More

🎻 Back, but for how long? 4chan is partly back online after a hack took the site down for nearly two weeks. The image sharing site said the damage done to the site was "catastrophic" partly because it was "starved of money for years." Read More

🫢 Eww: Meta often touts how much it's doing to care for kids on its platforms, but its AI chatbots on Facebook and Instagram can reportedly engage in sexually explicit conversations with minors. Read More

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🥳 Happy Birthday, USB: The USB 2.0 standard is now 25 years old! Tom's Hardware has a look at how this little stick has revolutionized how we transfer data, power devices and interface with devices of all kinds. Read More

🧑‍💻 Take the internet with you: In remote areas or places without reliable internet, Internet-in-a-Box offers a tiny, powerful 'Digital Library of Alexandria' that schools, medical clinics, and communities can use to access (for cheap!) more up-to-date information. Read More

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🎭 Welcome to Chat Haus: Brooklyn artist Nim Ben-Reuven has set up a "luxury" coworking space full of AI chatbots. It's an art statement that attempts to help him cope with and laugh about the fact that most of his work (graphic design, videography) is being taken over by AI. Read More