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Fred Wilson argues that the 2023 tech downturn reached its bottom due to the confluence of peaking interest rates and the SVB collapse, while the mainstream adoption of AI established a new megatrend for capital deployment.
AI guardrails hinder defensive cybersecurity research and may push activity toward open-source/local models amid export controls and vetted access programs.
Bluesky expands its AI assistant Attie into an open-ended social-research tool (Quests) across the Atmosphere/AT Protocol, backed by a $100M funding runway and a growing but cooling user base of about 45.6M registered accounts.
Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as the US weighs responses to Chinese AI and model distillation.
Midjourney acquires astrology app Co-Star; Co-Star has ~4.3M monthly users; deal terms undisclosed; ~24 Co-Star employees join Midjourney; signals expansion toward standalone consumer apps.
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February, signaling strong scale as it nears a billion-user milestone.
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