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Software redesigns, some new names, and probably more AI. Probably.
CEO Chris Best drops that fact onstage at The Information’s “Future of Influence” event in Los Angeles. He also says Substack was “accidentally cash flow positive” in the first quarter of this year, but isn’t planning to be profitable soon. “We’re focused on growth,” he says. “It turns out that when you do that, it makes the business grow really well, too.”



Project Starline is now Google Beam and shipping to offices later this year.

Does Google have what it takes to reinvent itself?
Sam Altman and other company leaders hyped the announcement yesterday on X by teasing it as their next “low-key research preview,” which is how ChatGPT itself was first described. You can watch OpenAI demo Codex below and read more about it in this week’s Command Line.







