Digg is back (again), this time as an AI news aggregator

When the history of the internet is written, the story of Digg might be one of its most fascinating chapters. The site that established the template later popularized by Reddit has ebbed in and out of relevance for much of its existence. Two months ago, it shut down. Now it’s back once again, and it wants to keep users up to speed on the fast-growing world of artificial intelligence. Like an overly determined game of whack-a-mole, the Digg website is live once more, with a headline reading “Hello Again” on its home page and a new mission statement. “The bet is simple: the internet has more noise than ever, and the people who can sort signal from it have never been more valuable,” reads the note from founder Kevin Rose. “We’re starting with AI. It’s the noisiest, fastest-moving space on the internet right now. Papers, launches, threads, hot takes flying past faster than anyone can keep up with. If we can surface what actually matters here, we can do it anywhere.” Digg says it plans to monitor the 1,000 “most thoughtful voices in AI” to see what they’re paying attention to. It will then rank those stories to let users know what matters most. Among the sources the site is following are Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Andrej Karpathy, and Geoffrey Hinton. The list also includes professors, investors, researchers, and reporters focused on the AI beat. Rather than using the site’s well-known URL, though, the home page currently refers users to a secondary site: di.gg/ai. That’s only temporary, Digg says. “When things are ready, we’ll move home to digg.com,” the website reads. Also, other areas of focus beyond AI will be forthcoming, Rose said. Déjà vu If you’re viewing this latest direction for Digg with skepticism, that’s understandable. Last year, Rose and Alexis Ohanian bought Digg back with plans to revive it. Backed by True Ventures, where Rose is a partner, and Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, the revived Digg said it would offer a more hu