Rants, AI and other notes from Upfront Summit

March 1, 2024

Venture capitalists were in Los Angeles this week for the Upfront Summit, an invite-only conference with celebrity sightings and plenty of talk on the future of the VC industry.

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Threads says it will make its API broadly available by June

March 1, 2024

Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June. Company’s engineer Jesse Chen posted that the company has been building the API for the past few months. The API currently allows users to authenticate, publish threads, and fetch the content they post through these tools. “Over […]

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Spotify, Epic Games, and others pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a ‘mockery’ of the DMA

March 1, 2024

Epic Games, Spotify, Proton, 37Signals, and other developers had already signaled their displeasure with how Apple has chosen to adapt its rules to meet the requirements of the new EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) called it “extortion” and “bad-faith” compliance, among other things. Now those companies have formalized their complaints in a letter […]

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AgZen’s RealCoverage wants to keep pesticides only where they are needed

March 1, 2024

A 2021 study found that if farmers didn’t use pesticides, they would lose 78% of fruit production, 54% of vegetable production, and 32% of cereal production. At the same time, the way pesticides are delivered is not ideal: The only way to guarantee enough pesticide distribution is to spray too much. That isn’t great for […]

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MyHeritage launches OldNews.com, a website with access to millions of historical newspaper pages

March 1, 2024

MyHeritage announced today that it’s launching OldNews.com, a new website that offers access to thousands of historical newspapers, mainly from the 1800s and 1900s. The website includes articles from major international newspapers to small-town journals and gazettes. Its search engine lets you quickly find information on a person, topic or event. OldNews is a subscription-based […]

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Fohm rebrands to Saintly, for a heavenly clean bottom

March 1, 2024

When it comes to doing business — not startups, that other kind of business, that you have a whole separate room for in your house — we need to talk about wipes. Wet wipes are great for your tush, but awful for the environment. It turns out not everyone is fond of dry wiping, but […]

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