December 20, 2024

Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs

A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…

Substack now allows podcasters to sync and distribute their episodes to Spotify

April 11, 2024

Substack announced on Thursday it’s introducing a few new features for podcasters on its platform. Most notably, the company is rolling out a Spotify integration that will allow podcasters on Substack to sync and distribute all of their free and paid episodes to Spotify’s streaming service. In addition, Substack is introducing new custom audio transcripts […]

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Humane’s $699 AI Pin is now available

April 11, 2024

Humane today announced the availability of its first product, the AI Pin. The Bay Area-based hardware startup has been kicking around since 2017, a year after cofounders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri left Apple. Since then, the company has been well-funded, to the tune of $230 million and focused on building standalone AI devices. AI […]

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Arc browser launches Live Folders to auto-update tabs for you

April 11, 2024

Fresh off the heels of raising $50 million at a $550 million valuation in March, the Browser Company continues to bring in more features to its Arc browser, set up to provide a genuine alternative to Chrome and other dominant players in the internet browser market. Today it is introducing a new feature called Live Folders, […]

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Scaling individual impact: Insights from an AI engineering leader

April 11, 2024
Traditionally, moving up in an organization has meant leading increasingly large teams of people, with all the business and operational duties that entails. As a leader of large teams, your contributions can become less about your own work and more about your team’s output and impact. There’s another path, though. The rapidly evolving fields of…

DuckDuckGo launches a new subscription to bundle VPN and identity theft protection

April 11, 2024

Privacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo launched a new Privacy Pro subscription on Thursday that bundles a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. The plan, which costs $9.99 per month or $99 per year, is currently available only to people in the U.S. This is the company’s first move towards a subscription service […]

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European car manufacturer will pilot Sanctuary AI’s humanoid robot

April 11, 2024

Sanctuary AI announced that it will be delivering its humanoid robot to a Magna manufacturing facility. Based in Austria, Magna manufacturers and assembles cars for a number of Europe’s top automakers, including Mercedes, Jaguar and BMW. As is often the nature of these deals, the parties have not disclosed how many of Sanctuary AI’s robots […]

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