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Start Up No.2581: the US’s “post-news” era, fake citations found in AI ethics guide, ideas for 2026, Roomba maker goes bankrupt, and more
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1714+ words) Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025 is a short, blunt one " and it's aimed straight at your feed: "slop." Merriam-Webster defines "slop" as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence." In…...
Start Up No.2558: iPhone Air faces its biggest test, Flock’s cameras are public, China’s EV market on the edge, and more
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1478+ words) There's another post coming this week at the Social Warming Substack on Friday at 0845 UK time. Free signup. That means if a firm wants to buy large-capacity hard drives, the backbone of nearline storage, it has to wait 24 months due…...
Start Up No.2510: the man behind Velvet Sundown, the fake AI doctors, wind farms sue Trump admin, Blooooski, and more
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (1752+ words) Margaux Blanchard" never existed. Yet this fictional freelance journalist successfully placed articles in Wired, Business Insider, and four other publications before Press Gazette exposed the elaborate hoax in August. Boucher previously made headlines for creating a fake X account representing…...