Day: April 28, 2025

From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off

From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name recognition. The Iranian-born Harvard graduate built an impressive resume early on — joining the

Early cancer detection startup Craif raises $22M

Early cancer detection startup Craif raises $22M Cancer ranks as one of the top causes of death worldwide. The National Cancer Institute reported nearly 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer-related deaths globally in 2022, with projections showing a rise to 29.9 million new cases by 2040. Craif,

4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’

4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’ 4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the person responsible for the hack apparently leaking data including a list of

Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots

Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots Nestled between an elementary school and a public library in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits a new kind of “luxury” coworking space.  Dubbed the Chat Haus, this space has many of the elements you’d find in a traditional coworking office: people

Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors

Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors AI chatbots available on Meta’s platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually explicit conversations with underage users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ says that after learning about internal concerns about whether