CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’
Federal court rules U.S. cybersecurity agency must re-hire over 100 former employees
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Five benefits of a health tech accelerator program
In the ever-evolving world of health care, the role of technology is becoming increasingly crucial. From improving patient outcomes to streamlining administrative processes, digital technologies are changing the face of the industry. However, for startups developing health tech solutions, breaking into the market and scaling their products can be a challenging journey, requiring access to…
Al Gore’s Just Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS for nature-based climate investments
The new fund aims to restore nature to reverse biodiversity loss and emissions from land use.
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You’ve Probably Seen Her Name at Nordstrom or Sephora. These Are the Negotiation and Leadership Secrets That Helped Her Make Millions.
She’s learned a lot during her decades in business and says, “the second time around can be more interesting and passionate.”
‘This Corporate Espionage Is Breathtaking’: Company Says It Caught a Spy With a Slack Trap
HR software company Rippling filed a lawsuit claiming corporate espionage was carried out on a platform typically used for team collaborations and Friday afternoon GIFs.
Anthropic-backed AI-powered code review platform Graphite raises cash
AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub’s latest poll saying that they’ve adopted AI tools in some form. Y Combinator partner Jared Friedman recently claimed that a quarter of YC’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. Sensing an opportunity, VCs are rushing to back startups developing […]
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Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. But it […]
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Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads
In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads. That’s up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024 — a 153% increase over a roughly-three-month period. Llama, which powers Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, across the tech giant’s […]
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Make your choice! Vote for the speaker you want to see at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
It’s time to make your voice heard. After receiving an overwhelming amount of applications for speakers at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, we have chosen six incredible finalists. TC Sessions: AI takes place on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley — and you have the power to decide who you want to take the stage […]
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The Download: speaking to robots, and growing pharmaceutical mushrooms
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. When you might start speaking to robots Last week, Google made a somewhat surprising announcement. It launched a version of its AI model, Gemini, that can do things not just in the digital…
Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American made batteries
Rather than trying to beat Chinese companies, Coreshell attempting an end run, swapping graphite for its specially coated silicon.
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