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From self-driving cars to AI that writes enterprise software: Cogna founder raises $15M Nov 12, 2024

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A founder who was an early mover in the race to build autonomous vehicles has raised $15 million for his next act: a startup that claims its AI can write enterprise software on its own.

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Productivity hacks are overrated, says a16z VC who sold his own startup for $1.25B Nov 11, 2024

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What’s the secret to success? It isn’t any of the trends that so many founders in Silicon Valley subscribe to.

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It’s the Senate’s last chance to pass the PRESS Act Nov 11, 2024

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The PRESS Act would protect a journalist's sources, and gained unanimous bipartisan support when passed by the House in January.

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Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers Nov 08, 2024

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Anthropic today announced that it’s teaming up with Palantir, the data-mining company, and Amazon Web Services to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to Anthropic’s Claude 3 and 3.5 family of AI models. The news comes as a growing number of AI vendors, for strategic and revenue-related reasons, look to ink deals with U.S.

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The FTC comes after neobank Dave for misleading marketing, hidden fees Nov 08, 2024

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Tuesday it will be taking action against the online cash app and neobank Dave, which it says used “misleading marketing to deceive consumers.” At issue is how Dave marketed $500 cash advances to consumers that it rarely offered.

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AI coding assistants can help startups develop products, seed VCs believe Nov 07, 2024

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By now, there’s hardly a coder in the world who isn’t using an AI copilot in some way. But using GitHub Copilot or Cursor.AI to ask technical questions and get debugging help could be just the beginning.

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Lyft partners with May Mobility, Mobileye to bring autonomous vehicles to the app Nov 07, 2024

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It seems Lyft is hoping to catch up to Uber’s string of autonomous vehicle partnerships. Lyft announced Wednesday three separate partnerships — with startup May Mobility, automated driving company Mobileye and smart dashcam firm Nexar — all aimed at establishing a foothold in the emerging autonomous vehicle market.

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AI safety advocates tell founders to slow down Nov 06, 2024

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“Move cautiously and red-team things” is sadly not as catchy as “move fast and break things.” But three AI safety advocates made it clear to startup founders that going too fast can lead to ethical issues in the long run.

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Can Pictionary and Minecraft test AI models’ ingenuity? Nov 06, 2024

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Most AI benchmarks don’t tell us much. They ask questions that can be solved with rote memorization, or cover topics that aren’t relevant to the majority of users. So some AI enthusiasts are turning to games as a way to test AIs’ problem-solving skills.

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X updates block feature, letting blocked users see your public posts, Threads now has 275M monthly active users, OpenAI has hired the co-founder of Pebble, and MIT debuted am LLM-inspired method for teaching robots new skills Nov 05, 2024

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