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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 9, 2025?

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Stereotypes Over Valuable Insights: How Some UX Frameworks Can Deceive You

TL;DR Certain UX frameworks may bring confusion to product teams and lead to misled product decisions. But we can avoid these traps of user personas and empathy maps

By @marinaagliullina [ 5 Min read ]

I have to admit that this popularity bothers me. I'm not entirely against personas and empathy maps, but they have their flaws. Let's explore how they can be misleading and how to use them effectively despite their shortcomings.

In my experience, both empathy maps and personas share similar issues:..

The AI Truth Test: New Study Tests the Accuracy of 13 Major AI Models

TL;DR New DeepMind study introduces SAFE and LongFact to fact-check AI, showing LLMs can outperform humans at evaluating long-form factual responses.

By @languagemodels [ 5 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Jerry Wei, Google DeepMind and a Lead contributors;

(2) Chengrun Yang, Google DeepMind and a Lead contributors;

(3) Xinying Song, Google DeepMind and a Lead contributors;

(4) Yifeng Lu, Google DeepMind and a Lead contributors;

(5) Nathan Hu, Google DeepMind and Stanford University;

7 Related Work..

The GTM Budget Struggle

TL;DR Why Web3 projects keep launching with million-dollar dreams and $30K marketing budgets, and why thats killing their growth before it starts.

By @gpolf [ 3 Min read ]

The $30K Marketing Budget Syndrome aka “We’re building the future of finance, but let’s market it like a lemonade stand.”

We’re here again.

The startup is gorgeous:

Founders with MBAs and matching hoodies.

The pitch deck? Sexy. You almost want to mint it.

And then...

To_beat_the ZK narrative.

Nah...

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