• Chris Messina talks about the birth of the hashtag.


• Why did Chris leave Twitter?


• What is Chris doing in AI right now?


• DeSantis Picked Twitter Spaces to Announce His Run.


• Next Steps for Neeva.


• Ford reverses course and decides to keep AM radio on its vehicles.


• Jack Dorsey shares Robert F. Kennedy Jr. video echoing conspiracy theories.


• Mourning the state of Twitter.


• Social Media is a 'Profound Risk' to Youth, Surgeon General Warns.


• TikTok sues Montana over law banning the app.


• Instagram's New App Could Be Here By June.


• Google reaches $39.9 million privacy settlement with Washington state.


• Meta Fined $1.3 Billion for Violating E.U. Data Privacy Rules.


• Are you sad that Google+ didn't survive?


• Where do you stand on the quote-tweet controversy?


• Technical issues plague Ron DeSantis's presidential announcement on Twitter.


• It's the 140th Birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge.


• New Biden FCC Commissioner Nominee Is Lawyer Anna Gomez.


• Supreme Court sides against Andy Warhol Foundation in copyright infringement case.


• Supreme Court Leaves 230 Alone For Now, But Justice Thomas Gives A Pretty Good Explanation For Why It Exists In The First Place.


• I tried the AI novel-writing tool everyone hates, and it's better than I expected.


• Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff by Sean Penn.


• Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold.


• Meta's new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages.


• Adobe adds its Firefly AI image generator to Photoshop.


• Verified Twitter Accounts Spread AI-Generated Hoax of Pentagon Explosion.


• An A.I.-Generated Spoof Rattles the Markets.

Picks: 

• Chris - Arc has a big launch tomorrow...


• Leo - Google Bard adds images for more visual responses.


• Mike - Three new tools attempt to fix news.


• Jeff - USC Optical Sound Effects Library.

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