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December 26, 2024

This international surveillance project aims to protect wheat from deadly diseases

When Dave Hodson walked through wheat fields in Ethiopia in 2010, it seemed as if everything had been painted yellow. A rust fungus was in the process of infecting about one-third of the country’s wheat, and winds had carried its spores far and wide, coating everything in their path. “The fields were completely yellow. You’d…

February 13, 2024

Otter, the AI-powered meeting assistant that transcribes audio in real-time is adding another layer of AI to its product with today’s introduction of Meeting GenAI, a new set of AI tools for meetings. Included with GenAI is an AI chatbot you can query to get information about past meetings you’ve recorded with Otter, an AI […]

Data Privacy Matters to Your Customers — Show Them It’s a Priority For You, Too. Here’s How.

February 13, 2024

Your business can help reassure customers and earn their loyalty by treating all incoming data as valuable.

Why Leaders Need to Stop Using These Phrases if They Want to Communicate With Their Team

February 13, 2024

The language that senior leaders use with younger team members can create a stronger connection or create an even bigger gap.

I Made $144,000 Last Year as a Virtual Assistant Working Flexible Hours. It Cured My Burnout.

February 13, 2024

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

February 13, 2024

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 […]

Memorizer is a movie and book tracking app that also helps you find inspiration

February 13, 2024

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 […]

YC-backed Cambio puts AI bots on the phone to negotiate debt, talk to a bank’s customers

February 13, 2024

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 […]

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.

February 13, 2024

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

February 13, 2024

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, […]

Mindy gets backing from Sequoia to build an email based AI assistant

February 13, 2024

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 […]

This international surveillance project aims to protect wheat from deadly diseases