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Figma kills new AI feature after Apple controversy | TechCrunch

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Dylan Field, co-founder and chief executive officer of Figma Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Technology television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, June 24, 2021. Software design company Figma has raised fresh funding at a valuation of $10 billion, quintupling its price tag since last year. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter rounding up the biggest news of the week. Want it delivered to your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Figma CEO Dylan Field said the company will temporarily disable its “Make Design” AI feature after it was accused of “heavily” training the tool … Read more

What Meta Should Change About Threads, One Year Later

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It’s been a year since Meta launched Threads in an attempt to take over the platform now known as X. Mark Zuckerberg said at the time that he hoped it would turn into “a public conversation app with over 1 billion people on it.” Meta’s timing was good. Threads launched at a particularly chaotic time … Read more