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WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats

May 14, 2026
Meta on Wednesday said it is adding the ability to start “incognito” conversations with its Meta AI chatbot within WhatsApp. These conversations, the company said, will be processed in a secure environment and can’t be seen by anyone. Users can start an incognito session by tapping on a new icon in one-on-one chats with Meta AI. The company said the feature will also be available on the…
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Dessn raises $6M for its production-focused design tool

May 13, 2026
New types of design tools, such as Perplexity-owned Visual Electric, Figma-owned Weavy, Flora, and Krea, have risen in popularity in the last few years, thanks to AI. These tools bank on the promise that, with AI, a product team with designers can iterate through variations quickly. A new design startup, Dessn, now backed by $6 million in funding, believes that design tools that don’t let you…
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Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

May 12, 2026
Digg is back from the dead. Again. Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose’s once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March as the company shifted course. Originally redesigned as a competitor to the massive community forum site Reddit, the new Digg found that it wasn’t able to effectively manage the bot traffic invading its platform and hadn’t differentiated itself enough…
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Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no. 

May 11, 2026
As was widely reported, Oracle axed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people via email on March 31. One of the employees cut that day told TechCrunch about the experience: “I had, like, this weird feeling in my stomach. I went to go sign into the VPN, and the VPN was like, ‘this user doesn’t exist anymore.’ Then I called my friend, and I was like, ‘Hey, can you see me in Slack?’ And she…
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