Start Up No.2662: the UK’s silent messaging, will AI pick your links?, Claude wipes database, OpenAI misses targets, and more

The Adidas shoes that helped Sebastian Sawe to a record-breaking marathon on Sunday can help amateurs too, by a surprising amount. CC-licensed photo by Tom Page on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. A selection of 9 links for you. Hop to it. I’m @charlesarthur on Twitter. On Threads: charles_arthur. On Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@charlesarthur. On Bluesky: @charlesarthur.bsky.social. Observations and links welcome. Why the voice note craze is yet to truly explode in Britain • BBC News Ashitha Nagesh: » On an August day in 2013, WhatsApp, the messaging app now owned by Meta, made an announcement. With relatively little fanfare, they revealed the voice note, the messaging feature that lets you send a clip of your own voice to friends and family. “We know there’s no substitute for hearing the sound of a friend or family member’s voice,” the company enthused in a press release. Thirteen years on,…