Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
“These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.””
The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the…
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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
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ChatGPT’s New Internet Browser Can Run 90% of a One-Person Business (No Hiring Required)
You’re not prompting anymore. You’re delegating.
5 Counterintuitive Strategies That Look Inefficient Now But Compound Into Long-Term Growth
What looks like “moving fast” in early-stage companies is often disguised misalignment — and fixing it early is what allows teams to actually accelerate later.
ChatGPT’s New Internet Browser Can Run 90% of a One-Person Business (No Hiring Required)
You’re not prompting anymore. You’re delegating.