"“The internet has more noise than ever, and the people who can sort signal from it have never been more valuable,” Digg CEO Kevin Rose explained in his announcement. “Digg's job is to find that signal and bring it to you.” AI is just the beginning, he said, calling it the “noisiest, fastest-moving space on the internet.” He promised that more verticals are coming, but he didn't say when Digg will start aggregating news about other topics."
"At the moment, the website follows 1,000 people directly involved in AI research, investing and media, built from X's social graph. OpenAI's Sam Altman is at the top of the list, along with Elon Musk, OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, AI pioneer Yann LeCun, and former chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud Fei-Fei Li, among many other personalities. The new website is live at di.gg while it's still in alpha."
"If you'll recall, Digg launched an open beta in January in an attempt to come back, but it shut down just two months later. The company said at the time that it was targeted by SEO spammers mere hours after the launch. Digg wasn't ready to fight off bots at the scale and the speed that they flooded the website, and the tools the team deployed weren't enough. Justin Mezzell, the company CEO, admitted at the time that the votes and comments on the website couldn't be trusted due to all the bot activity."
Digg launched a new site that aggregates news about artificial intelligence, positioning itself as a way to find signal amid internet noise. The platform is live at di.gg in alpha form and currently follows about 1,000 people involved in AI research, investing, and media. The list includes prominent figures such as Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Andrej Karpathy, Jeff Dean, Yann LeCun, and Fei-Fei Li. Digg plans to move back to digg.com when ready, though timing and expansion to other topics are not specified. Digg previously attempted an open beta in January that shut down after SEO spammers and bot activity overwhelmed the site, undermining trust in votes and comments. Kevin Rose rejoined full time and is now CEO.
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