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Meta’s former policy chief Nick Clegg seems to be walking a tightrope as he promotes his upcoming book, “How to Save the Internet.” Unlike certain other Meta employee memoirs, “How to Save the Internet” doesn’t sound like a tell-all or a scathing critique. And in an interview with the Guardian, Clegg (who previously led the U.K.’s Liberal Democrats) seems to distance himself from Silicon Valley without quite disavowing his former employer. “I really do believe that, despite its imperfections, social media has allowed billions of people … to communicate with each other in a way that has never happened before,”…

Still, the coincidence between Altman’s statement and the MIT report reportedly spooked tech stock investors earlier in the week, who have already been watching AI valuations climb to extraordinary heights. Palantir trades at 280 times forward earnings. During the dot-com peak, ratios of 30 to 40 times earnings marked bubble territory. The apparent contradiction in Altman’s overall message is notable. This isn’t how you’d expect a tech executive to talk when they believe their industry faces imminent collapse. While warning about a bubble, he’s simultaneously seeking a valuation that would make OpenAI worth more than Walmart or ExxonMobil—companies with actual…

Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law. In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn’t have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law’s broad scope and privacy implications. Mississippi’s HB 1126 requires platforms to introduce age verification for all users before they can access social networks like Bluesky. On Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court justices decided to…

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 London—events the developer didn’t know had actually happened until he Googled them. “I was interested to see if a protest had actually occurred in 1834 London and it really did happen,” wrote Reddit user Hayk Grigorian, who is a computer science student at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. For the past month, Grigorian has been developing what he calls TimeCapsuleLLM, a small AI language model (like a pint-sized distant cousin to…

Pintarnya, an Indonesian employment platform that goes beyond job matching by offering financial services along with full-time and side-gig opportunities, said it has raised a $16.7 million Series A round. The funding was led by Square Peg with participation from existing investors Vertex Venture Southeast Asia & India and East Ventures. Ghirish Pokardas, Nelly Nurmalasari, and Henry Hendrawan founded Pintarnya in 2022 to tackle two of the biggest challenges Indonesians face daily: earning enough and borrowing responsibly. “Traditionally, mass workers in Indonesia find jobs offline through job fairs or word of mouth, with employers buried in paper applications and candidates…

The app uses AI for a number of tasks. Most importantly, it will label and organize incoming emails automatically. That requires using the Mac app to setup first. You can also personalize your inbox with a custom view to see what matters for you. To help manage an email deluge, it’s also possible to create custom actions for different swipes to speed through an inbox. The app also features the Notion editor so you can create any type of email. Unlike other email apps, you can manage your inbox and create drafts even when offline, making it valuable to use…

Version 9.0 of the Google Calculator app gets some changes related to its redesign, including a big change to the numbers buttons, which are now closer to touching the sides and bottom edges of the buttons around them. In addition to the bigger numeral keys, the row on top that includes functions like square root, pi, power, and factorial now only features a small up arrow and a small down arrow. Pressing those arrows removes the functions and then brings the functions back, over and over again. New and Old UI for Google Calculator in light mode and dark mode. | Image credit-PhoneArena…

Back in October 2024, Google announced new safety tools for its Messages app. The most notable, Sensitive Content Warnings, is now widely rolling out to Android users, adding an extra layer of protection when it comes to sharing or receiving nude images. When enabled, Google Messages can detect if a photo contains nudity. If you receive one, the app will blur it by default and give you the option to delete it without viewing. Try to send an image with nudity, and you’ll get a reminder about the risks before having to confirm the send. This works even if you’re…

After opening the app, you’ll see each available year as a VHS cassette with a sticky note. Select a year, and a random video from the year will start playing on a retro TV screen and VCR Just tap the video to see it on the full screen of your device. On the screen, you will also see the date, time, and where exactly the video was shot. Along with an iOS device, you can even use AirPlay to watch the video on a big screen. Like with photos, I take a lot of videos with my iPhone. But many…

Google Messages | Image Credit – GoogleGoogle Messages users are seeing three different versions of the app’s branding right now.For a long time, the Google Messages app featured the well-recognized multi-colored “G” logo. Last month, a report stated that the company would drop the logo for the app’s full name, a change that began appearing for some users recently. Instead of the icon, the app showed the Google wordmark followed by “Messages” in a standard font. Google Messages is abandoning the “G” logo. | Image Credit – Reddit user LegitGuard Initially, the name of the app appeared in white font, even though…