Anthropic’s latest tactic to stop racist AI: Asking it ‘really really really really’ nicely

[ad_1] The problem of alignment is an important one when you’re setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health. But how can you reduce biases…

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ContactMonkey lands $55M investment to grow its email software for internal comms

[ad_1] Email is quite profitable, as it turns out. Or rather, email communications software is. Today, ContactMonkey, a platform that lets companies create, send and track internal comms from Outlook…

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Ex-Google, Coursera employees start Lutra AI to make AI workflows easier to build

[ad_1] While working at Coursera and later Google over the past decade, there were many times when Jiquan Ngiam would see an engineering function that could be automated to support…

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After e-signatures, Tomorro believes e-contracts will be the next big thing

[ad_1] You might not be familiar with the name Tomorro, but it is actually not a new startup. Tomorro is a French contract management platform that originally started as Leeway….

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India’s Paytm curbing low-value personal loans spells bad news for the industry

[ad_1] Indian financial services firm Paytm sent shockwaves through the industry on Wednesday after it disclosed that it plans to issue fewer personal loans under 50,000 Indian rupees ($600) in…

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Ask Sophie: Does the H-1B visa require founders to give up equity and control?

[ad_1] Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for…

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Cameron Hardesty, founder and CEO of Poppy

Poppy says ‘I do’ to new capital for digital booking, fulfillment of wedding flowers

[ad_1] Technology infiltrated many of the facets of wedding planning over the past decade, from registries to ring design to vendor organization. And rightly so — weddings, just in the United…

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‘Mega-deals’ could be inflating overall AI funding figures

[ad_1] It’s safe to say that VCs struck while the iron was hot this year where it concerned generative AI. While venture capital investments overall fell compared to last year…

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Did you attend Google’s K&I Black Summit this summer?

[ad_1] Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch. A source sent me a photo of a peculiar notebook received by someone who attended Google’s K&I Black Summit in August but only…

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X is now licensed for payment processing in a dozen US states

[ad_1] Elon Musk is moving forward with his plans to turn the company formerly known as Twitter, now called X, into an “everything app” that includes its own payments system….

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