Reddit's IPO

Happy Monday! It’s the start of a new week. I’m fuelled with coffee and ready to go. 

But first, the news: 

💰 Reddit is rumored to IPO – with a valuation of at least $5 billion.

🎤 Microsoft is testing a new feature to clean up bad meeting audio.

🚁 NASA’s Mars helicopter made its last flight – check out its final photo.

🤖 Gemini has clinched second place in an AI leaderboard – ahead of GPT-4.

Picture it, you’re hosting a dinner party, and you want to bake a cheesecake for dessert. Usually, you’d google a recipe, click on a few links, and scroll to the bottom, hoping you have all the ingredients listed. It’s the default way of browsing the web. You probably don’t think twice about it. 

But the folks at The Browser Company did. Hot off the heels of securing not one but three 2023 Golden Kitty Award nominations, the team behind Arc launched Arc Search. A totally reimagined way of browsing the web. 

Once you open Arc Search, your keyboard will automatically pop up. There are no text fields to click. You just start typing. Say you wanted to read the highlights of the Chief’s game. Type in your search, and the app will scour the web – reading six different links. That’s where things get different. 

Rather than returning a search query with an endless list of links like you’re accustomed to, Arc Search will instead grab all the relevant information like the final score, MVP, and additional commentary and build you a website based on it, that you can use to read the most important parts of your search result.

Of course, if you prefer the traditional method, you can opt for that by tapping the search query to use Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Ecosia – whichever is set as your default. 

Arc Search also aims to improve the mobile browsing experience with features like automatic tab cleanup, ad-blocking, pop-up blocking, and more. It’s currently available on iPhone and is free to download. 

• This new phone brings back the Blackberry keyboard in a more minimal fashion. 
• Elqi aims to end phone addiction through conscious intervention at key times. 
• AirBrush Studio lets you use AI to generate professional headshots, instantly.

• Layerpath lets you create interactive guides and demos for your product. 
• OpenAI launched a ChatGPT built for teams. 
• MVP Tester helps you decide if your startup idea is something worth pursuing.