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?? Google admitted a secret deal exists between them and Spotify. Not so secret now.
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A new kind of social app is born
If you’re a millennial, you probably remember the creativity of Myspace
Endless options to customize your profile with themes, fonts, music, animations, and more. Nowadays, the internet is a relatively uniform experience, but some companies are trying to reclaim the good old days for modern audiences.
Amo is one of them, and the company’s first product is ID.
It’s a new kind of social profile that you make in collaboration with your friends. Once you sign up, you’ll be asked to invite some friends to build your “Orbit.” From there, you will have your own ID, which acts like a board where your friends can drop things like images, text, links, and even drawings in order to build your profile.
Key to amo is its gridless nature. It takes the concept of the likes of MySpace and gets rid of the structure, allowing you to place items anywhere on a profile. Think of a laptop filled with stickers.
The founders aren't wide-eyed Zoomers either. Co-founder Antoine Martin previously founded Zenly, a location-based social app that aimed to help you spend time with friends. It was bought by Snap for $200 million before being sunsetted.
The amo team have so far raised $18 million and aims to expand ID even further.
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The saga continues
I, of course, mean the OpenAI saga.
Quick primer: Sam Altman was suddenly fired from the board last Friday, the President of OpenAI (Greg Brockman) resigned in solidarity too, and both were brought in by Microsoft to lead a new AI research team on Monday.
Since then, over 700 members of OpenAI’s staff have signed an open letter threatening to quit if the board in its entirety does not resign for its handling of the situation. The list includes Mira Murati, who was briefly interim CEO after the board sacked Altman.
Now, it appears that the Sam x Microsoft deal is not set in stone. When asked if Sam Altman could make a return to OpenAI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told CNBC: “That is for the OpenAI board and management and employees to choose.”
It doesn't end there, though. According to reports, OpenAI apparently approached the Anthropic CEO about taking the top job, and a potential merger. This was refused by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
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