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Twitter Alums Launch Particle: A Revolutionary AI News Aggregator with $4.4M Funding

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A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. The startup was founded last year by former Senior Director of Product Management at Twitter, Sara Beykpour, who worked on products like Twitter Blue, Twitter Video, and conversations, and who spearheaded the experimental app, twttr. She had been at Twitter from 2015 through 2021, growing her position from software engineering to that of a senior director of product management. The premise behind Particle, as Beykpour explained last month, is to make it easier to keep up with news using AI. We’re hoping to talk in more detail about how Particle vets its sources closer to a public launch.

Particle: An AI-Driven News Reader Developed by Former Twitter Engineers

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A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. The startup was founded last year by former Senior Director of Product Management at Twitter, Sara Beykpour, who worked on products like Twitter Blue, Twitter Video, and conversations, and had spearheaded the experimental app, twttr. She had been at Twitter from 2015 through 2021, growing her position from software engineering to that of a senior director of product management. The premise behind Particle, as Beykpour explained last month, is to make it easier to keep up with news using AI. We’re hoping to talk in more detail about how Particle vets its sources closer to a public launch.

“Clever, Yet Imperfect: The Latest AI-Enhanced ‘Pinch-to-Summarize’ Feature on Arc Browser”

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The Browser company’s Arc, a browser focused on a less cluttered web experience, launched a new feature in its mobile app Arc Search that uses AI to summarize web pages. However, in our testing, the AI summaries themselves often miss the mark. Other users have also pointed out that the summary feature doesn’t work well with other languages. That said, there is also a problem with AI-powered summary features in other places as well. Additionally, Arc updated its “Browse for me” AI-powered search to make the pages generated as search results sharable.