Digg Is Back Again, but With a New Format and Focus on AI - CNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Using the 1,000 most influential voices in AI that also happen to be on X, Digg wants to be your source of AI news. Digg is back for the second time in 2026. Following its beta relaunch in January as a Reddit-like social news website and app, Digg shut down just two months later due to an influx of AI bots, leading to staff layoffs. But as of Tuesday, Digg is back. Again. On the Digg homepage, Kevin Rose, who was part of the company’s founding team in 2004, wrote that Digg is now an AI news aggregator at di.gg/ai. Rose signs his message with the CEO title, suggesting that former Digg CEO Justin Mezzell has moved on (though his LinkedIn hasn’t yet been updated). “Digg watches what 1,000 of the most thoughtful voices in AI are paying attention to, and ranks the stories they’re pointing at by what’s rising fastest,” Rose said. Called the Digg AI 1000, the ranked list of 1,000 people most involved in