The more indispensable AI becomes, the more we'll be willing to provide unprecedented amounts of personal data we'd never have shared back before we stood to gain as much as we will. Ethical debates aside, the value accrued to the platforms that receive this data is mind-blowing.

hey friends, Marcel Molina and I have been working on something new…. Keeping up with the news🗞️ is hard. Sometimes it feels like headlines are all we have time for. We also want to understand more, but faster. We’re in the early stages of using AI to transform the way we interact

We’ve welcomed our first small wave of folks from our waitlist into the Particle Beta yesterday! If you’re still on the waitlist, we plan to add more of you continuously. In case you missed it, here’s the link to sign up! bit.ly/particle-waitl…

Particle has become a daily app for me. It synthesizes the many articles (and angles) on any news topic, surfaces the key points as objectively as possible, and lets you dig further across many dimensions. In the era of abstraction ahead, great example of daily AI.

We've shared a bit more about Particle News, and how we're thinking about the future of news: particlenews.medium.com/particle-under…

New Generative Now podcast episode, featuring Sara Beykpour (sara beykpour), Co-Founder and CEO of Particle News. In this episode, Sara and I went deep on the news industry (which is currently broken in almost every way imaginable) and how she and her team are on a mission to fix

What sara beykpour is building is what I’ve wanted for so long. And the product is just fantastic. This is magic and so needed in the world right now. particle.news

Today we're announcing that @Particle_news has raised $10.9mm in Series A funding, led by Michael Mignano at @LightspeedVP, fueling our mission to deliver the best, personalized news experience.

Proud to be partnering with sara beykpour, Marcel Molina, and the Particle News team as we announce today that Lightspeed is leading the $10.9M Series A financing! 🗞️ lsvp.com/stories/unders…

Our small team is growing! At Particle News, we're hiring for a Support & Trust Specialist, and a Content Marketing & Growth Manager. Links in the 🧵:

Today, we're launching Particle News for iPhone and iPad, available to download for free on the US App Store. particlenews.medium.com/71decda13b35

Generative AI is a technological marvel––but it makes mistakes. At Particle, we detect and avoid errors from LLM outputs before they make it to your newsfeed. With accuracy as our priority, our processes decrease the probability of hallucinations showing up in the app from 1

This example is so much better than “Plan a trip…”

The future turned out to be: military drones, synthetic opioids, megafires, deepfake presidents and a button that hides spoilers about a tv show

This week, we started testing Focused Feeds 🧐 in the Particle Beta! You can use natural language to define a custom feed of news. It's still in testing, but reply to me here and I'll respond with a feed for you. What custom feed would you want to see? Some examples 👇

gpt-5 pricing compared to 4o seems great. But based on what I’m seeing it’s actually around 40 times more expensive. The reason is reasoning. You can specify 4 different reasoning effort levels: minimal, low, medium, high If you don't specify anything it defaults to medium. I

excited to share what I’ve been up to: today, we’re launching Macroscope: an AI system that uses your codebase to answer questions about what’s happening and automatically reviews your PRs for bugs. we raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed & Thrive Capital, Adverb and GV.

We were fortunate Particle News to get early access to Macroscope. It’s one of those rare products that solves so many long standing inefficiencies that you forget how you managed to get anything done at all before you had it.