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Amazon CodeWhisperer is now called Q Developer and is expanding its functions

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Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon’s AI-powered assistive coding tool. As of today, it’s kaput — sort of. CodeWhisperer is now Q Developer, a part of Amazon’s Q family of business-oriented generative AI chatbots that also extends to the newly announced Q Business. Available through AWS, Q Developer helps with some of the tasks developers […]

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Yelp is launching a new AI assistant to help you connect with businesses

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Yelp announced a new AI-powered chatbot today for consumers that helps them connect with relevant businesses for their tasks. The company joins a long list of organizations leaning into AI chatbots as an assistive medium. The company is rolling out the AI assistant on its iOS app under the “Projects” tab with plans to expand

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Devastated by his videos being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea

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Dan Purcell, the founder and CEO of Ceartas, recalls feeling devastated when he realized that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, uploaded private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site. Over a call, Purcell told me, “I was dating a girl who was in the tech industry, and she asked me if I

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TechCrunch Minute: Elon Musk’s big plans for xAI include raising $6 billion

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TechCrunch recently broke the news that Elon Musk’s xAI is raising $6 billion at a pre-money valuation of $18 billion. The deal hasn’t closed yet, so the numbers could change. But it sounds like Musk is making an ambitious pitch to investors about his 10-month-old startup — a rival to OpenAI, which he also co-founded

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