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Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong

Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state of DEI in tech. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Apple might partner with Meta on AI

As Apple enters the AI race, it’s also looking for help from partners. During the announcement of Apple Intelligence earlier this month, Apple said it would be partnering with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT into the revamped version of Siri. Now, … Continue reading

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How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)

18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Ilya Sutskever isn’t done working on AI safety

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Ilya Sutskever launched a new AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just one … Continue reading

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X still has a Verified bot problem — this time they came for TechCrunch writers

Really, X should have learned its lesson by now. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OmniAI transforms business data for AI

OmniAI is a set of tools that transform unstructured enterprise data into a something that data analytics apps and AI can understand. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent

Charlette N’Guessan is the Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at Amini, a deep tech startup leveraging space technology and artificial intelligence to tackle environmental data scarcity in Africa and the global South. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal … Continue reading

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‘What’s in it for us?’ journalists ask as publications sign content deals with AI firms

Journalists understand the basic structure of the deals, but they still have questions.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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This is your brain on Pink Floyd

The human brain has long been a subject of fascination for art and science, which are now both mixed into “Brainstorms: A Great Gig in the Sky,” a new live interactive experience to the tune of Pink Floyd. Interactivity is … Continue reading

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Deal Dive: Sir Jack A Lot returns with a startup for retail traders

When former YouTube product manager Kevin Xu, known as “Sir Jack A Lot” on Reddit, turned $35,000 into $8 million trading stocks between 2020 and 2022, many people thought his fortunes, and his way of investing, had peaked, just like … Continue reading

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