Why Leaders Need to Stop Using These Phrases if They Want to Communicate With Their Team
The language that senior leaders use with younger team members can create a stronger connection or create an even bigger gap.
Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars
Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr has raised $100 million in an all-equity Series B round led by General Catalyst, as the startup aims to boost its R&D and local production capabilities amid growing demand for drones in battlefields and for border surveillance. Drones are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in global military operations. In recent and ongoing […]
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I Made $144,000 Last Year as a Virtual Assistant Working Flexible Hours. It Cured My Burnout.
Here’s how one woman went from corporate burnout to virtual nomad success.
Nvidia’s new tool lets you run GenAI models on a PC
Nvidia, ever keen to incentivize purchases of its latest GPUs, is releasing a tool that lets owners of GeForce RTX 30 Series and 40 Series cards run an AI-powered chatbot offline on a Windows PC. Called Chat with RTX, the tool allows users to customize a GenAI model along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT by […]
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Memorizer is a movie and book tracking app that also helps you find inspiration
There are quite a few apps that let you log the movies, TV shows and books that you have watched and read. Some of them are indie apps that take advantage of various online databases. Some of them, like Letterboxd, Goodreads and Trakt, are full-fledge services with large communities of users. Memorizer starts with that […]
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YC-backed Cambio puts AI bots on the phone to negotiate debt, talk to a bank’s customers
A Y Combinator-backed startup called Cambio is bringing AI to the banking world in a surprising way: it’s putting AI bots on the phone with companies and consumers. The startup began by offering an AI-powered service that negotiated debt collections on behalf of consumers, which helped around 70% of customers resolve their collections and raise […]
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She Maxed Out Her Credit Cards and Sold Her Engagement Ring to Start a Business. Now She Has $25 Million in Funding — and Smart Advice for Fellow Black Women Founders.
As she continues to scale her company, Denise Woodard, CEO and founder of Partake Foods, has a few things to share with other Black women starting businesses.
Fertility tracker Glow fixes bug that exposed users’ personal data
A bug in the online forum for the fertility tracking app Glow exposed the personal data of around 25 million users, according to a security researcher. The bug exposed users’ first and last names, self-reported age group (such as children aged 13-18 and adults aged 19-25, and aged 26 and older), the user’s self-described location, […]
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Mindy gets backing from Sequoia to build an email based AI assistant
Last year, there was an interest in agent-based AI approaches, such as AutoGPT. This year, we are seeing startups implement some of these use cases of “let the AI do the work for you.” Mindy, which touts itself to be your email-based executive assistant, is one such example. Using Mindy is pretty simple. You can […]
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Bret Taylor’s new AI company aims to help customers get answers and complete tasks automatically
We’ve been hearing about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s latest gig since he announced he was leaving the CRM giant in November 2022. Last February we heard he was launching an AI startup built with former Google employee Clay Bavor. Today, the two emerged with a new conversational AI company called Sierra with some bold […]
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This Fun, Flexible Side Hustle Pays $35 an Hour and Gets You Into Exclusive CEO Summits, Music Festivals, and Sports Events
If you want to make money in your downtime, why not do something that feels less like work and more like an adventure?