Digg, the social news platform that shuttered in January 2023 after an open beta, has been resurrected by CEO Kevin Rose as a dedicated AI news aggregator. At di.gg (still in alpha), the site tracks 1,000 figures in AI research, investment, and media—highlighting OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Andrej Karpathy, Jeff Dean, Yann LeCun, Fei-Fei Li, among others. Rose framed AI as the internet’s “noisiest, fastest-moving space,” positioning Digg to filter signal amid growing online noise.

The reboot follows Digg’s 2023 collapse, when SEO spammers overwhelmed the open beta and bot activity rendered user votes and comments unreliable. Rose’s return in March 2023 (as CEO) and partnership with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian—aiming to revive the early web’s “discovery and genuine community” spirit—set the stage for this pivot. While Digg may return to digg.com later, its current alpha phase focuses solely on AI.

This AI-focused relaunch signals a potential shift for Digg, leveraging its social graph to curate AI news. For consumers amid AI’s rapid growth, it offers a centralized hub for key figures and developments. The move also reflects broader industry efforts to navigate information overload in niche tech fields.