• 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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