Spill toasts one year with a 2.7M seed extension, Kerry Washington and champagne

November 7, 2023

At midnight last Friday, Alphonzo Terrell held up a glass of Dom Perignon and toasted his one-year anniversary of being laid off at Twitter. If it weren’t for that moment, he wouldn’t be in Austin at an AfroTech after-party, surrounded by thousands of people who now know his name and his social media app, Spill. […]

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Figma sweetens FigJam whiteboard tool with new AI features

November 7, 2023

While Figma waits to hear whether regulators will allow Adobe to complete its $20 billion acquisition, the startup is not sitting idly by. Today, Figma announced it was adding three generative AI features to its FigJam whiteboard tool. FigJam is Figma’s online collaborative whiteboard that teams can use to plan design or other projects, and […]

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TikTok is shutting down its Creator Fund to focus on its newer Creativity Program

November 7, 2023

TikTok has announced that it’s shutting down its original $1 billion Creator Fund and shifting the focus to its newer Creativity Program. Starting December 16, the Creator Fund will be discontinued in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Creators who are currently enrolled in the Creator Fund can switch to the Creativity Program. […]

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Waze gets a new safety feature that warns you if a road has a history of crashes

November 7, 2023

Waze announced today the launch of crash history alerts, designed to notify you if a road you’re approaching has a history of crashes. The new feature is powered by proprietary AI technology, which analyzes historical crash data as well as key characteristics of a road, such as its typical traffic levels, the elevation, whether it’s […]

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