The company is replacing Daniel Ek with two co-CEOs: Gustav Söderström, currently co-president, and chief product and technology officer; and Alex Norström, co-president and chief business officer.
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Hinge is taking a fairer approach to account banning
Hinge won’t kick you off the app if just one thing on your profile breaks the rules but remove the content and prompt you to change it.
Whoop opens blood-testing service to what it says is a 350,000-person waitlist
Whoop Advanced Labs marries subscription blood tests with its fitness device monitoring for tech-powered wellness advice.
Opera launches its AI-centric Neon browser
Neon will write code snippets, includes an agent that will do tasks for you, and handles repeatable prompts.
Instagram is testing a Reels-first UI in India and South Korea
Instagram is testing a new Reels-first UI in India and South Korea to give short videos more prominence in the app.
X says will fight Indian court ruling on content takedown system
X said last week’s Indian court ruling allows millions of police officers to issue “arbitrary” content takedown orders.
Former Microsoft execs launch AI agents to end Excel-led finance
Maximor has come out of stealth with a human-in-the-loop agentic platform that does the finance team’s grunt work.
Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed
Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for so-called “results-based” billing.
Honda and Astrobotic team up to keep the lights on through the long lunar night
Honda is partnering with Astrobotic to study whether their tech could provide continuous power on the moon.
Beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘workslop’
Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, have coined a new term to describe low-quality, AI-generated work