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Social Agent’s new app lets you book a photographer within 30 minutes

There’s an unspoken pressure nowadays to share all your special moments online, whether it be birthdays, graduations, or engagements.  However, not everyone has the skills to take high-quality pictures, and often, people find themselves too distracted to snap the perfect … Continue reading

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Side Event submission deadline extended for TechCrunch Sessions: AI

Did you miss your chance to apply for a Side Event at “TechCrunch Sessions: AI Week?” Don’t worry – we’ve extended the deadline by three more days! You now have until May 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to submit your … Continue reading

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Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers

Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial intelligence, thankfully. Instead, Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical … Continue reading

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UK retail giant Co-op warns of disruption as it battles cyberattack

The U.K. grocery and retail giant said the unspecified cyber incident is affecting its back office and call centers.

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Intel’s chief commercial officer and sales lead, Christoph Schell, resigns

Christoph Schell, Intel’s EVP and chief commercial officer, is leaving the company after two years in the role, according to a filing with the SEC. Schell notified Intel of his decision to leave on Monday, and will resign on June … Continue reading

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Cast AI raises $108M to get the most out of AI, Kubernetes and other workloads

The crush of traffic going into training and running AI has quickly turned into a major cost and resource headache for organizations. Today, Cast AI, a startup building tools to ease and optimize workloads for AI and other tasks with … Continue reading

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DeepSeek upgrades its math-focused AI model Prover

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has quietly updated Prover, its AI model that’s designed to solve math-related proofs and theorems. According to South China Morning Post, DeepSeek uploaded the latest version of Prover, V2, to AI dev platform, Hugging Face, late … Continue reading

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X is rolling out support for 4K video uploads

X is now allowing select creators to upload videos in 4K resolution, and will roll out the feature to all premium subscribers soon.

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OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophantic

OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced the company to roll back an update to the model released last week. Over the weekend, following the … Continue reading

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Sarah Tavel, Benchmark’s first woman GP, transitions to venture partner

Eight years after joining Benchmark as the firm’s first woman general partner, Sarah Tavel announced on X that she is transitioning to a more limited role at the storied venture firm. In her new position as a venture partner, Tavel … Continue reading

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