Arc browser’s new AI-powered ‘pinch-to-summarize’ feature is clever, but often miss the mark

February 23, 2024

The Browser company’s Arc, a browser focused on a less cluttered web experience, launched a new feature in its mobile app Arc Search that uses AI to summarize web pages. The feature involves a clever “pinching” gesture that shows a neatly formatted summary with main points. The feature has gotten attention because it presents a […]

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Reddit downplays risks of developer backlash, decentralized social media in its IPO filing

February 23, 2024

Reddit’s long-awaited IPO is nearing, promising to be the largest social media IPO since Pinterest. But in the company’s S-1 filing, Reddit fails to fully address the complications that arose from changes to its developer platform and API pricing, which late last year led to site-wide protests, communities going dark, site stability issues, and traffic […]

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Reddit cites r/WallStreetBets as a risk factor in its IPO filing

February 23, 2024

As Reddit finally files to go public, the company wrote in its S-1 filing that “meme stock” schemes on r/WallStreetBets could pose a risk to investors. The subreddit r/WallStreetBets, a community of retail traders with 15 million members, describes itself as being “like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal.” It’s most well known for coordinating a […]

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Tackling long-haul diseases

February 23, 2024
MIT immunoengineer Michal “Mikki” Tal remembers the exact moment she had an insight that would change the trajectory of her research, getting her hooked on studying a long-neglected disease that leaves millions of Americans suffering without treatment.  It was 2017, and she was a Stanford postdoc exploring connections between her immune regulation research and immuno-oncology,…