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The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon attended the ASU+GSV Summit this week, where experts in education and technology gathered to discuss how AI will impact learning. While speaking on a panel about AI in the workforce, McMahon repeatedly referred to … Continue reading

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Netflix’s latest season of ‘Black Mirror’ comes with a mobile game

Season 7 of “Black Mirror” premiered on Thursday, introducing a new mobile game connected to one of its episodes. The game, titled “Thronglets,” from Netflix’s own Night School Studio, serves as a companion to the episode called “Plaything.” Players interact … Continue reading

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OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your other chats

OpenAI announced on Thursday that it’s starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allow the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their previous conversations. OpenAI says the feature, which appears … Continue reading

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Meghan Markle has made another angel investment

Meghan is stepping further into the world of business and entrepreneurship.  In an interview with Fortune, Meghan revealed that she is an angel investor in the healthcare company Midi, which provides a virtual platform to help treat women experiencing menopause … Continue reading

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Rebooted Digg launches early-access community with $5 fee

The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway. Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have launched an early-access community for some of the first people who signed up after last month’s announcement that the pair … Continue reading

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Google thinks AI can untangle the electrical grid’s bureaucracy

Google, PJM, and Tapestry announced a partnership to develop AI tools to speed interconnection requests through the queue.

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Inventex founder, an engineer for Coinbase at 14, wants to revolutionize patent applications

Daniel Ruskin started his career when he was a mere 14 years old as an engineer for Coinbase. As he tells it, he was a teenager “who knew how to code and wanted to build cool things.” Obviously too young … Continue reading

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Polestar EV sales jump in Q1 on discounts like its ‘Tesla conquest’ bonus

Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar saw its first-quarter sales jump 76% compared to the same period in 2024 after it began offering discounts and other promotions, including ones geared towards locking in Tesla owners. Polestar sold 12,304 cars in the … Continue reading

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AI insurtech Ominimo bags its first investment at a $220M valuation

How do you get talented engineers to work for a startup in a mundane field at a time when more exciting companies are paying well and hiring aggressively? Here’s an answer from one insurance startup out of Poland called Ominimo: … Continue reading

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Revent rocks the boat with a fresh $100M to invest in people and the planet

It would appear the environment and society remain relevant, whatever you might hear in some other quarters. At least, that’s one conclusion to be drawn from the news that European specialist VC Revent has closed a  €100 million ($109 million) … Continue reading

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