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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…
An Engineer Who Landed a $300,000 Job at Google Shares the Résumé that Got Him in the Door — and 3 Things He’d Change on It Today
Gaba now works in Google’s Seattle office as a software engineer. He has received offers from Meta, Amazon, and Uber.
Tesla is pushing a free one-month trial of its FSD Beta driver-assistance software to U.S. customers
Tesla is about to start giving every customer in the U.S. a one-month trial of its $12,000 driver-assistance system, which it calls Full Self-Driving Beta, provided they have a car with the compatible hardware. The company is also reportedly mandating, at CEO Elon Musk’s request, that prospective buyers are given a demo of the software […]
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Former Nextdoor exec raises $25 million for PipeDreams, a startup rolling up HVAC companies
Dan Laufer swore off ever founding a startup again after he sold apartment rental platform RentLingo in 2021, but Laufer also couldn’t ignore the potential to solve a problem he saw unfolding as the head of product and marketing at Nextdoor. “The top use of Nextdoor is people looking for providers, HVAC especially,” Laufer told […]
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Ionobell’s is turning to recycled silicon to boost EV range
Ionobell, a seed stage startup, claims its silicon material will be cheaper than the established competition.
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Time Poverty: The Modern Malaise and How to Escape Its Grip
As the world becomes increasingly obsessed with efficiency and productivity, a curious phenomenon has emerged: time poverty. Even though technology and conveniences save us time, we still feel stretched thin….
Fireworks.ai open source API puts generative AI in reach of any developer
Just about everyone is trying to get a piece of the generative AI action these days. While the majority of the focus remains on the model vendors like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere, or the bigger companies like Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon, there are in fact, a lot of startups trying to attack the generative […]
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Evoloh bets hydrogen won’t happen without better manufacturing
The startup is attempting to solve hydrogen’s supply problem by focusing not on novel materials, but on manufacturing.
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Food-as-medicine startup Chiyo helps postpartum moms with nutrition after raising $3 million
Unlike other meal service providers that want you to be customers for life, Chiyo’s goal is to get you off of its program.
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The Download: Adobe’s AI ambitions, and how work is changing
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. How Adobe’s bet on non-exploitative AI is paying off Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, there has been a fight over how large AI models are trained. In one camp sit…