Etsy agrees to sell Reverb, an online musical instruments marketplace that it acquired for $275M in 2019, to investors Creator Partners and Servco (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally) April 26, 2025 by appcompact
Autodesk adds Jeff Epstein and Christie Simons to its board and settles the proxy fight with Starboard Value, which has criticized Autodesk for underperformance (Svea Herbst-Bayliss/Reuters) April 26, 2025 by appcompact
Many AI features, like Gmail's AI assistant, feel useless because they don't allow users to edit system prompts, constraining the AI models they're built with (Pete Koomen/koomen.dev) April 26, 2025 by appcompact
Sources: XAI Holdings, the newly combined entity housing xAI and X, is in talks to raise roughly $20B, or possibly more, valuing the company at more than $120B (Bloomberg) April 26, 2025 by appcompact
Interpretability, or understanding how AI models work, can help mitigate many AI risks, such as misalignment and misuse, that stem from AI systems' opacity (Dario Amodei) April 26, 2025 by appcompact
Reducto, which helps companies convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $24.5M Series A led by Benchmark, following a $8.4M seed in October 2024 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) April 26, 2025 by appcompact
Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won't launch new models in Europe due to its "unique" heating systems (Chris Welch/The Verge) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Leaked letter: interim DC attorney Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status (Gabe Kaminsky/The Free Press) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Sources: Butterfly Effect, the Chinese startup behind Manus, has discussed setting up a new HQ outside China, and separating its domestic and global businesses (Juro Osawa/The Information) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices, says Rippling placed an insider within Deel, is not tax compliant, and more (Dan Primack/Axios) April 25, 2025 by appcompact