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The Download: AI’s impact on the economy, and DeepSeek strikes again
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The State of AI: Welcome to the economic singularity —David Rotman and Richard Waters Any far-reaching new technology is always uneven in its adoption, but few have been more uneven than generative AI.…
3 Foreign Bank Stocks to Buy This Week
Despite assurances by federal regulators, depositors and investors remain wary of the U.S. banking sector’s risks. Amid this uncertainty, fundamentally strong foreign banking names could be worth investing in to…
US pharmacy giant says hackers accessed personal data of almost 6 million patients
One of the largest pharmacy service providers in the United States has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of almost six million patients. PharMerica operates over 2,500 facilities across the U.S. and offers more than 3,100 pharmacy and healthcare programs. In a data breach notification filed with Maine’s attorney general, PharMerica said it learned […]
US pharmacy giant says hackers accessed personal data of almost 6 million patients by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
Success with Rihanna’s music rights helps Web3 marketplace raise fresh VC round
Normally in the music industry, it’s more or less impossible for ordinary investors to buy music rights. Thus, Web3 startups saw an opportunity to tokenise music assets, allowing fans access to music rights in a wholly new fashion. Of course, this garnered a lot of interest during the Crypto boom a couple of years ago. […]
Success with Rihanna’s music rights helps Web3 marketplace raise fresh VC round by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch
Async replaces work calls with asynchronous voice messages
Chances are you don’t like wasting time in useless meetings. People often say that this meeting should have been an email. But what about one-to-one calls? Could they be a series of voice messages and quick text replies? Meet Async, a new productivity startup based in New York that wants to replace quick calls with […]
Async replaces work calls with asynchronous voice messages by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
Sanctuary AI’s new humanoid robot stands 5’7″ and lifts 55 lb
I’m not sure I’d call this the golden age of humanoid robots, but they sure have been coming out of the woodwork since Tesla announced its intentions to build one back in the summer of 2021. It’s difficult to compare the progress of various systems at the moment (they’re all fairly early stage), but Sanctuary […]
Sanctuary AI’s new humanoid robot stands 5’7″ and lifts 55 lb by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare
AI, specifically generative AI, has the potential to transform healthcare. At least, that sales pitch from Hippocratic Health, which emerged from stealth today with a whopping $50 million in seed financing behind it and a valuation in the “triple digit millions.” The tranche, co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz, is a big vote of […]
Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Read-it-later app Pocket now you lets you create article lists
Mozilla-owned read-it-later app Pocket unveiled several new features across platforms including rolling out the redesigned app to iOS and better article-jumping features for Android. However, the standout feature of this release is the ability to create lists of articles. Pocket said it will now let users add articles to their own lists — think of […]
Read-it-later app Pocket now you lets you create article lists by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Bonus: An extra week to apply to Startup Battlefield 200
A big shoutout to the early-stage founders who missed the application window for the Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200) at TechCrunch Disrupt. We have exciting news just for you! You procrastinators can thank your lucky stars, we’re giving you (a little) more time to get your application together. Pro tip: Applying to and participating in […]
Bonus: An extra week to apply to Startup Battlefield 200 by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch
Visual Layer helps enterprise manage the massive visual data sets they need to build AI models, raises $7M
Training machine learning models for computer vision use cases takes massive amounts of images. Often, those images are mislabeled, broken or duplicated, leading to sub-par model performance. But with millions of images in many datasets, it’s virtually impossible to catch these issues. Visual Layer, a Tel Aviv-based startup that wants to enable data scientists and […]
Visual Layer helps enterprise manage the massive visual data sets they need to build AI models, raises $7M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch