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Particle secures $10.9M in new funding and expands publishing partners for AI news reader

Traffic is down, newsrooms are undergoing layoffs, and publishers fear that AI technologies will only make matters worse. Entering the fray, news reader startup Particle is teaming up with publishers to seek out a new business model for the AI era, where AI summaries of news don’t have to mean lost revenues. Now, the company is bringing its first publishing partners into the mix to help it guide its next steps. As a start, Particle now subscribes to Reuters newswire to help it deliver information about current events in the news. What Particle isn’t yet ready to reveal is its business model.

Zara Khan
June 11, 2024

Enterprise

“Empower Your Subscribers: Build a Network of Recommended Publications on Substack”

Substack is updating its peer-to-peer recommendation system, the company announced today. With this new update, Substack is helping writers aid other writers in expanding their reach and potentially getting more subscribers and followers, as the company is now allowing writers to curate and share a list of publications for their readers to subscribe to. Most social media networks currently leverage algorithms for their recommendation systems, but Substack is instead focused on allowing writers to curate their own networks of recommendations. Substack says the new update will help writers build up goodwill with other writers by helping them reach more people, while also helping readers curate a worldview. The platform will show writers how many subscriptions and follows they have driven for people in their network.

Max Chen
February 22, 2024

Apps, Media & Entertainment

Substack Launches Request-Access Private Substacks

One of the new features in Substack is private Subsidiaries. This allows writers to create a publication and only allow readers to subscribe if they want to. This can help…