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These documents are influencing the DOGE-sphere’s agenda
Reports from the US Government Accountability Office on improper federal payments in recent years are circulating on X and elsewhere online, and they seem to be a big influence on Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its supporters as the group pursues cost-cutting measures across the federal government. The payment reports have been…
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Cognigy lands cash to grow its contact center automation business
Cognigy is helping create AI that can handle the highly repetitive, rote processes center workers face daily.
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Raspberry Pi is now a public company as its shares pop after IPO pricing
Who would have thought that Raspberry Pi, the maker of cheap, single-board computers, would become a public company? And yet, this is exactly what’s happening this week as Raspberry Pi priced its IPO this morning at £2.80 per share, which values the company at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate. Shortly after […]
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What using artificial intelligence to help monitor surgery can teach us
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Every year, some 22,000 Americans a year are killed as a result of serious medical errors in hospitals, many of them on operating tables. There have been cases where surgeons have…
How battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts
On the morning of April 3, Taiwan was hit by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake. Seconds later, hundreds of battery-swap stations in Taiwan sensed something else: the power frequency of the electric grid took a sudden drop, a signal that some power plants had been disconnected in the disaster. The grid was now struggling to meet…
Toyota Loses Over $15 Billion in Market Value After Investigation
The company was accused of falsifying engine test results that stopped shipment on three vehicle models earlier this year.
TechCrunch Space: A week that will go down in history
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. What a week! In the same seven-day period, we watched Boeing’s Starliner launch astronauts to space for the first time, and then we got to watch those two astronauts dock with the International Space Station. And we also got to see SpaceX launch Starship for the fourth time […]
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Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrations
Elon Musk is threatening to ban iPhones from all his companies over the newly announced OpenAI integrations Apple announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday. In a series of posts on X, the Telsa, SpaceX and xAI exec wrote that “if Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level,” Apple devices would be banned from his businesses […]
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Apple confirms plans to work with Google’s Gemini ‘in the future’
Following a keynote presentation that both introduced Apple Intelligence and confirmed a partnership that brings GPT access to Siri through an deal with OpenAI, SVP Craig Federighi confirmed plans to work with additional third-party models. The first example given by the executive was one the companies with whom Apple was exploring a partnership. “We’re looking […]
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How Urvashi Barooah broke into venture after everyone told her she couldn’t
When Urvashi Barooah applied to MBA programs in 2015, she focused her applications around her dream of becoming a venture capitalist. She got rejected from every school, and was told she was being unrealistic about her prospects in the venture industry, but she didn’t let that deter her. Now, eight years later, Barooah, 33, is […]
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