JD Vance’s AI Speech in Europe: “AI Future Will Not Be Won By Hand-Wringing About Safety”
US Vice President JD Vance just took the stage at an AI summit in Paris and turned more than a few heads with a massively pro-acceleration AI speech.
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New Study Shows Generative AI Triples Work Efficiency
A brand-new study shows that generative AI usage in the workplace is not only on the rise—it’s saving serious time on everyday tasks.
Meet Fino1-8B: A Fine-Tuned Version of Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Designed to Improve Performance on Financial Reasoning Tasks
Understanding financial information means analyzing numbers, financial terms, and organized data like tables for useful insights. It requires math calculations and knowledge of economic concepts, rules, and relationships between financial…
Bluesky adds a ‘followers only’ reply option
The new feature lets users limit their conversations to connections of their own choosing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC
When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for…
AI Essentials for Tech Executives
On April 24, O’Reilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It—a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging…
StructureFlow Buys Blue J Diagramming + Tim Follett Interview
StructureFlow, the pioneering visual modelling system, has acquired Blue J Diagramming, a visualisation tool used by accountancy and tax experts. The software-only deal will see …
ContractPodAi Launches AI App Marketplace, PwC + KPMG Join
CLM pioneer ContractPodAi has launched a marketplace where clients can access custom-made AI apps – which could include agentic tools – for specific legal workflows, …
25 Best AI Agent Platforms to Use in 2025
AI agent platforms and AI agent builders are transforming how businesses automate workflows, enhance productivity, and develop intelligent assistants. In 2025, several AI-powered tools stand out for their advanced capabilities,…
Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AI
Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded…