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The Rundown AI sells you back your morning
A five-minute email became an AI media and training business. Its cleverest move was turning the question “What happened?” into “What can I do with it?”
Last Week in AI makes room to think
A researcher’s answer to AI overload became a newsletter and a long-running podcast. Its most useful lesson may be the work it learned to leave behind.
The AI news is endless. Your attention isn’t.
The Artificial Intelligence Show turned two colleagues’ reading habit into a weekly guide to AI at work. Its most useful lesson is how to make time to think before buying another tool.
The AI Daily Brief makes room to think
Nathaniel Whittemore built an AI news business around a daily listening habit. Its revealing move was deciding which news product to stop making.
Wes Roth Built an AI Newsroom That Watches the News for Him
From urgent YouTube explainers to a podcast, newsletter and agent-run news site, Wes Roth has turned the speed of AI news into both his subject and his working method.
Matt Wolfe Built an AI Directory. Then AI Made Directories Look Old.
A spreadsheet, a weekend with Webflow, and a public career reset turned Matt Wolfe into a familiar guide to AI tools. Four years later, the founder of Future Tools is learning to value a shorter list.
Sara Beykpour
Sara Beykpour is the co-founder and CEO of Particle, an AI-powered news app that summarizes the day's stories and shows readers how coverage differs across the political spectrum. She spent more than a decade at Twitter shaping products like Vine, Periscope, and Twitter Blue before leaving in 2022 to build Particle with former Twitter engineer Marcel Molina. The company launched publicly in November 2024 and has raised roughly $15.3 million, including a $10.9M Series A led by Lightspeed.
Particle
Particle is an AI-powered news reader built by former Twitter engineers Sara Beykpour and Marcel Molina. It summarizes the day's stories from many sources, shows the political spread of coverage, extracts key quotes, and links prominently back to the publishers it draws from - positioning itself as an AI news product that pays and drives traffic to journalists rather than scraping them. Available on iOS, Android, and the web, Particle is developed by San Francisco-based Mina Labs and has raised $15.3M.
Nate Benson
Nate Benson is an AI news journalist and newsletter creator behind The AI Break, a publication dedicated to making artificial intelligence news accessible, engaging, and jargon-free for a broad audience.