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The founder of Hinge is back in the dating game, this time with eighteen million dollars and a new app called Overtone. The service pitches itself as voice- and audio-forward, using AI to make what it calls highly curated introductions. Whether that means smarter matches or just a fancier algorithm remains to be seen, but the bet is that audio adds something text and photos never could.
Meanwhile, a significant privacy story is developing around xAI's Grok Build coding tool. Researchers at Cereblab found that the command-line tool was quietly packaging and uploading users' entire code repositories to Google Cloud storage, including files users had explicitly restricted and secrets they thought had been deleted from history. xAI has since disabled the feature, but the episode is a sharp reminder of how much access AI coding tools are quietly granted.
On a lighter note, a developer set out to build a simple device that would alert them when surf conditions were right, and ended up creating something considerably more interesting. The project, now called The Live Frame, grew into a broader ambient display concept, a good example of how personal itch-scratching can quietly evolve into a real product.
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