• Noplace, the Twitter x Myspace for Gen Z, hit #1 on the App Store (ARTICLE, APP).

• Boston Celtics are now for sale for $5B (FORTUNE). 

• Instagram’s ‘Made with AI’ label was swapped out for ‘AI info’ after complaints from photographers (VERGE).

• Alibaba's LLM, Qwen, is the #1 ranked open-source model (HF).

• 3rd party cookies will be replaced by the ‘Privacy Sandbox’ (BI). 

• Chewy executives are concerned at 'Roaring Kitty' stake in the pet-product retailer (REUTERS).

• Justin Bieber performed at an Indian billionaire’s pre-wedding event for $10M. (INDIA TIMES)

• Student loan payments were halted for 3M people by Biden (NYT).

• A man made money from buying his own pizza on the DoorDash app (BBC). 

• The swimming pool business: how the U.S. downed it (AXIOS).

• Credit/debit cards are statistically the most addictive digital product ever created (TWITTER).

• Meta might have just transformed how AI models are developed and deployed with the release of some pre-trained models using a novel multi-token prediction approach. Instead of the traditional method of training LLMs to predict only the next word in a sequence, Meta’s new approach tasks models with forecasting multiple future words simultaneously, which promises better performance and dramatically faster training times (ARTICLE).

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