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Exclusive: Event startup Partiful wasn't stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (439+ words) Social event planning app Partiful, which calls itself "Facebook events for hot people," has firmly replaced Facebook as the go-to platform for sending party invitations. But what Partiful also has in common with Facebook is that it's collecting a tsunami…...
Shuttle raises $6 M to fix vibe-coding's deployment problem
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (432+ words) The first Strictly VC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now. The promise of vibe coding was that full-scale applications could be spun up from just an idea, powered by systems like Lovable and Replit AI....
'Tokenmaxxing' is making developers less productive than they think
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (585+ words) The first Strictly VC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now. There's an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you're measuring. Software engineers have debated productivity metrics…...
Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (261+ words) The first Strictly VC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now. Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman's human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human…...
Linked In data shows AI isn't to blame for hiring decline. .. yet
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (361+ words) Linked In's Blake Lawit, the chief global affairs and legal officer of the Microsoft-owned professional networking site, confirmed in an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week that the company's data shows a decline in hiring of around…...
Reid Hoffman weighs in on the 'tokenmaxxing' debate
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (498+ words) Days after Meta shut down its internal "tokenmaxxing" dashboard following news of the AI leaderboard leaking to the press, Linked In co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman came out in support of the concept that's recently taken Silicon Valley by…...
For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (879+ words) The first Strictly VC of 2026 hits San Francisco. Tickets are going fast. Register now. A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap " or so the thinking goes " leaving little room for…...
From LLMs to hallucinations, here's a simple guide to common AI terms
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1283+ words) The first Strictly VC of 2026 hits San Francisco. Tickets are going fast. Register now. We will regularly update this glossary to add new entries as researchers continually uncover novel methods to push the frontier of artificial intelligence while identifying emerging…...
Avec's Tinder-styled email app allows you to swipe through your inbox
1+ week, 5+ day ago (492+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save up to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. The email "stack" of cards also has a button at the bottom that lets you hold it to reply to emails using your voice....
Astropad's Workbench reimagines remote desktop for AI agents, not IT support
1+ week, 6+ day ago (730+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11: 59 p. m. PT. Register here. Demand for Apple's Mac Mini has skyrocketed, particularly in China, as the small computer has become an ideal platform for experimenting with autonomous AI…...