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Women in AI: Sarah Bitamazire helps companies implement responsible AI

Sarah Bitamazire is the chief policy officer at the boutique advisory firm Lumiera. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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IRS finalizes new regulations for taxing crypto

Crypto platforms will need to report transactions to the Internal Revenue Service, starting in 2026. However, decentralized platforms that don’t hold assets themselves will be exempt. Those are the main takeaways from new regulations that the IRS and U.S. Department … Continue reading

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Detroit Police Department agrees to new rules around facial recognition tech

As part of a legal settlement, the Detroit Police Department has agreed to new guardrails limiting how it can use facial recognition technology. These new policies prohibit the police from arresting people based solely on the results of a facial … Continue reading

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Plaid, once aimed at mostly fintechs, is growing its enterprise business and now has over 1,000 customers signed on

Plaid’s expansion into being a multi-product company has led to real traction beyond traditional fintech customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI

He says that the problem is that generative AI is not human or even human-like, and it’s flawed to try and assign human capabilities to it. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Matrix rebrands India, China units for ‘organizational independence’

Matrix is rebranding its India and China affiliates, becoming the latest venture firm to distance its international franchises. The U.S.-headquartered venture capital firm will retain its name, while Matrix Partners India will rebrand to Z47 and Matrix Partners China will … Continue reading

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Amazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept

Adept, a startup developing AI-powered “agents” to complete various software-based tasks, has agreed to license its tech to Amazon and the startup’s co-founders and portions of its team have joined the ecommerce giant. Geekwire’s Taylor Soper first reported the news. … Continue reading

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YC alum Fluently’s AI-powered English coach attracts $2M seed round

There are plenty of resources to learn English, but not so many for near-native speakers who still want to improve their fluency. That description applies to Stan Beliaev and Yurii Rebryk, and this is what inspired them to create Fluently. … Continue reading

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NASA and Boeing deny Starliner crew is ‘stranded’: “We’re not in any rush to come home”

NASA and Boeing officials pushed back against recent reporting that the two astronauts brought to the ISS on Starliner are stranded on board. The companies said in a press conference Friday that they are using “the luxury of time” to … Continue reading

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Forget the debate, the Supreme Court just declared open season on regulators

As the country reels from a Presidential debate that left no one looking good, the Supreme Court has swooped in with what could be one of the most consequential decisions it has ever made, in the context of the tech … Continue reading

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