Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines

March 25, 2024

Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research moonshot, ProGen could — if brought to market — help uncover medical treatments more cost effectively than traditional methods, the researchers behind it claimed in a January […]

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TechCrunch Space: Returning to the moon

March 25, 2024

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Mark your calendars, everyone: Boeing and NASA are planning to conduct the first crewed Starliner mission as soon as May 1.

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Maju Kuruvilla is out as CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt

March 25, 2024

Maju Kuruvilla is no longer CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt. He is replaced by Justin Grooms, Bolt’s global head of sales, who is now interim CEO, according to Grooms’ LinkedIn profile. Kuruvilla didn’t have much to say about the change but did confirm it both on LinkedIn and X, by posting, simply “One-Click Checkedout […]

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Fisker trading suspended by NYSE

March 25, 2024

The exchange said Monday that Fisker’s stock is “no longer suitable for listing” because of “abnormally low” price levels.

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A judge just killed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against an anti-hate research org

March 25, 2024

A federal judge sided against Elon Musk today, dismissing a lawsuit brought by Musk and X targeting a nonprofit that researches online hate. X sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) last year, accusing the group of spreading misleading claims after it published a series of unflattering reports about hate and extremism on the platform. […]

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Understanding and overcoming judgment fear

March 25, 2024
One of the most profound regrets that individuals express at the end of their lives is not having had the courage to live the life they truly desired rather than…

Large language models can help home robots recover from errors without human help

March 25, 2024

There are countless reasons why home robots have found little success post-Roomba. Pricing, practicality, form factor and mapping have all contributed to failure after failure. Even when some or all of those are addressed, there remains the question of what happens when a system makes an inevitable mistake. This has been a point of friction […]

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