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Samsung may incorporate Perplexity’s AI tech in its phones

Samsung is in investment talks with Perplexity that would see the Korean firm incorporating the AI company’s tech into its devices, Bloomberg reported.

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Scale AI hires team behind remote developer recruiting platform Pesto AI

Tiger Global-backed data labeling startup Scale AI has hired the team behind remote developer hiring platform Scale AI.

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For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker

Generative AI comes in many forms. Increasingly, though, it’s marketed the same way: with human names and personas that make it feel less like code and more like a co-worker. A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build … Continue reading

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Elon Musk tries to stick to spaceships

Elon Musk’s interview with CBS Sunday Morning seemed to get off to an awkward start, as reporter David Pogue asked the SpaceX CEO about his thoughts on his ally Donald Trump’s policies, including growing restrictions on international students. “I think … Continue reading

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Thousands of Netflix fans gather for Tudum

Netflix released a flurry of announcements and trailers around high-profile projects including “Squid Game,” “Wednesday,” and “Stranger Things 5” last night at its annual Tudum marketing event. While this year’s Tudum (made for the sound that plays when you open … Continue reading

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Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups

Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already written seed checks to startups like Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey. Now, as the early … Continue reading

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Sam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’

In “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey examines our AI-obsessed moment through one of its key figures — Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Hagey begins with … Continue reading

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Day 4 of TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Flex your brain, score big on tickets

TechCrunch Sessions: AI hits UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on June 5 — and today’s your shot at AI trivia glory and two tickets for the price of one. Answer a few brain-busting questions on artificial intelligence, and if you ace … Continue reading

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Video game union announces first contract with Microsoft

Unionized quality assurance testers at video game holding company ZeniMax announced Friday that they have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, which acquired ZeniMax in 2021. This represents Microsoft’s first union contract in the United States. It’s been a … Continue reading

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Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X, Pew says

It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center attempts to quantify that shift. This comes as an update to Pew’s news influencer report released … Continue reading

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