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Workera’s CEO was mentored by Andrew Ng. Now he wants an AI agent to mentor you

Kian Katanforoosh has one of the best mentors in the AI world: renowned researcher Andrew Ng, who also served as his graduate school advisor at Stanford. The two went on to create Stanford’s deep learning program, and now, Ng serves as Chairman of Katanforoosh’s startup, Workera. Ng has been a meaningful guide in Katanforoosh’s career, […]

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Slack is turning into an AI agent hub. Should it?

Enterprise / Sasandara Dilmina

The head of Slack, Denise Dresser, tells TechCrunch she is shifting the business chat platform into a “work operating system,” specifically by making Slack a hub for AI applications from Salesforce, Adobe, and Anthropic. The company’s CEO sees Slack as more than a place to chat with your coworkers, but do users want that? And

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OffDeal wants to help small businesses find big exits with AI agents

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Small businesses are the unsung heroes of the American economy, employing nearly half of America’s workforce and making up 44% of the country’s GDP. But when it’s time for small business owners to sell their companies, their options are limited. Some go to small business brokers or pass the business on to their children, while

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Born from San Francisco’s AI hackathons, Agency lets you see what your AI agents do

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

After a long week of coding, you might assume San Francisco’s builders would retreat into the Bay Area’s mountains, beaches or vibrant clubbing scene. But in reality, when the week stops, the AI hackathons begin. In the last few years, San Francisco has exploded with AI hackathons. On any given Saturday or Sunday, technologists give

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Skyfire lets AI agents spend your money

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

There’s a lot of hype about the promise of AI agents today, but payments are a huge limiting factor. Today, an AI agent might be able to plan a vacation for you independently, but a human has to step in when it’s time to input your credit card information. Skyfire Systems wants to change that.

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After AgentGPT’s success, Reworkd pivots to web-scraping AI agents

Startups / Sasandara Dilmina

Reworkd’s founders went viral on GitHub last year with AgentGPT, a free tool to build AI agents that acquired more than 100,000 daily users in a week. This earned them a spot in Y Combinator’s summer 2023 cohort, but the cofounders quickly realized building general AI agents was too broad. So now Reworkd is a

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What exactly is an AI agent?

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

AI agents are supposed to be the next big thing in AI, but there isn’t an exact definition of what they are. To this point, people can’t agree on what exactly constitutes an AI agent. At its simplest, an AI agent is best described as AI-fueled software that does a series of jobs for you

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a16z-backed Rewind pivots to build AI-powered pendant to record your conversations

Gadgets / Sasandara Dilmina

In 2022, Rewind had just raised $10 million from a16z and was building a personal data recording service that promised to privately record your activity and let you search through your own history. But that was before OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Today, generative AI can make what Rewind had built previously — a searchable record of

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