“Institutional Trust is the Real Meme That Matters Most”

This article appears to be a weekly newsletter from TechCrunch, covering various tech and startup-related news. Here’s a summary of the articles:

  1. The Week in Review: The author, Lucas Matney, provides a brief summary of the week’s top stories in tech.
  2. Meta Execs Obsessed with Beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 Internally: Court filings reveal that Meta executives were intensely focused on developing a rival AI model to OpenAI’s GPT-4.
  3. TikTok Users’ Attempted Migration to Chinese App RedNote Isn’t Going Too Well: Sarah Perez reports on the struggles of users trying to migrate from TikTok to the similar app RedNote.
  4. ChatGPT Now Lets You Schedule Reminders and Recurring Tasks: Maxwell Zeff writes about the new features added to ChatGPT, including scheduling reminders and recurring tasks.
  5. Meta to Cut Roughly 5% of Its Workforce Based on Performance: Aisha Malik reports that Meta will be cutting around 5% of its workforce based on performance metrics.
  6. DOJ Confirms FBI Operation That Mass-Deleted Chinese Malware from Thousands of US Computers: Carly Page writes about the FBI’s operation to remove malware from thousands of US computers.
  7. OpenAI’s AI Reasoning Model ‘Thinks’ in Chinese Sometimes and No One Really Knows Why: Kyle Wiggers investigates the strange phenomenon where OpenAI’s AI reasoning model sometimes produces responses in Chinese, despite being trained on English data.
  8. ‘Free Our Feeds’ Campaign Aims to Billionaire-Proof Bluesky’s Tech: Aisha Malik reports on a new campaign aimed at making social media platforms more equitable and resistant to billionaire influence.

Additionally, the newsletter includes a section called "Extra Things," which features brief summaries of other articles from TechCrunch, including:

  • The 5 Biggest Mistakes I Made as a First-Time Startup Founder: A first-time founder shares their mistakes and what they learned.
  • Fintechs Could See $100 Billion of Liquidity in 2021: Fintech companies are expected to see significant growth in liquidity this year.
  • Rising African Venture Investment Powers Fintech, Clean Tech Bets in 2020: Venture capital investment in Africa is on the rise, with a focus on fintech and clean tech.

You May Also Like

More From Author