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Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ uses AI to help you explore job possibilities

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Google is launching a new experiment that uses AI to help people explore more career possibilities. The company announced on Wednesday that a new “Career Dreamer” tool can find patterns between your experiences, educational background, skills, and interests to connect you with careers that might be a good fit. With Career Dreamer, you can use […]

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Sanas taps AI to change call center workers’ accents in real time

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The demand for voice and speech recognition technologies is massive — and growing. An analysis by market research firm Markets and Markets found that the sector could be worth over $28.1 billion by 2027. There’s no shortage of vendors providing voice and speech recognition solutions, but some newer upstarts have managed to carve out niches.

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Strictly VC Download news catch-up: Slow Ventures creates a creators fund, Meta enters the humanoid bot race, and more

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This week on StrictlyVC Download, we’re catching our breath and catching up with all of the news that’s been happening in the industry. Connie Loizos and Alex Gove are breaking down the top headlines. They discuss: Slow Ventures’ new creator fund and whether or not it’s a gimmick The continuing saga of Elon Musk’s attempt

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Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia thinks he can turn things around with AI; he has a lot riding on it

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Social media is often about scale, but Nextdoor bet long ago on something different: that it could grow a big business off smaller, local communities. For years, the plan worked. The 15-year-old company has long been a dominant platform for neighborhood-based conversations, connecting users for everything from lost pet alerts to local business recommendations. Then

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These are the hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them

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AI models are being cranked out at a dizzying pace, by everyone from Big Tech companies like Google to startups like OpenAI and Anthropic. Keeping track of the latest ones can be overwhelming.  Adding to the confusion is that AI models are often promoted based on industry benchmarks. But these technical metrics often reveal little

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These researchers used NPR Sunday Puzzle questions to benchmark AI ‘reasoning’ models

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Every Sunday, NPR host Will Shortz, The New York Times’ crossword puzzle guru, gets to quiz thousands of listeners in a long-running segment called the Sunday Puzzle. While written to be solvable without too much foreknowledge, the brainteasers are usually challenging even for skilled contestants. That’s why some experts think they’re a promising way to

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Figure AI is in talks to raise $1.5B at 15x its last valuation

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Silicon Valley-based robotics startup Figure AI is in talks to raise a massive $1.5 billion round at a $39.5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports. That’s a whopping 15 times higher than Figure’s $2.6 billion post-money valuation for its $675 million Series B last year. Figure’s current round is expected to be led by Align Ventures and

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DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

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DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its

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