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On Sendit, teens can send each other anonymous questions via integrations with Instagram or Snapchat.

The social app Sora will let users generate videos of themselves and their friends, which they can share in a TikTok-like feed.

Researchers at DeepSeek released a new experimental model designed to have dramatically lower inference costs when used in long-context operations.

This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in how people shop online – one that moves away from search engines like Google and e-commerce platforms like Amazon towards conversational agents with curated recommendations, comparisons, and easy checkout experiences. 

Venture capital is filled with investors who claim they’ve got inside access to the next big thing. Meanwhile, Gabriel Jarrosson, a French engineer-turned-YouTuber-turned-investor, has built his VC firm around a single filter: if it isn’t a Y Combinator company, he won’t invest in it. That discipline pushed Jarrosson from filming scrappy venture explainers in Paris […]

Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for so-called "results-based" billing.

Early warning signs suggest this whole services-industry metamorphosis may be more complicated than VCs anticipate.