Former Spotify execs launch AI-powered ‘learning platform’ for the ‘curiously minded’

The creators of Oboe know what everyone's thinking about AI. "Is AI going to make us all stupid?" the company asks in a recent ad. "Are we going to forget how to think for ourselves?" Oboe's founders think the answer to both of those questions is no, and their startup is meant to prove it. The AI education platform, which launched this month, uses AI to craft "courses" about any topic that strikes a user's fancy. It comes from the creators of Anchor, a DIY mini-podcast creation platform that was acquired by Spotify for $150 million. Nir Zicherman, Oboe's CEO and cofounder, ended up running Spotify's audiobooks vertical, while Mike Mignano … Read the full story at The Verge.