Digg relaunches as AI news aggregator

Digg has relaunched for a third time, shifting its focus from a Reddit competitor to an AI news aggregator. The platform aims to identify and rank influential voices and trending topics within the AI space by analyzing real-time data from X. It will initially concentrate on AI news but plans to expand to other topics if successful. The site's new approach involves sentiment analysis and signal detection to surface the most relevant information, even tracking the impact of key figures like OpenAI's Sam Altman on topic propagation. While potentially useful for data enthusiasts and those seeking curated AI news, its long-term appeal to general users over existing news feeds remains uncertain.