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Spy games in HR tech: Inside Rippling’s wild lawsuit against Deel

Rippling’s latest lawsuit reads less like a legal filing and more like the plot of a corporate espionage thriller, complete with secret crypto payments, an alleged mole, and a fake Slack channel trap. This week, the HR tech startup publicly named the employee at the center of its case against its rival Deel, claiming the […]

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UnitedHealthcare’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet

Healthcare giant Optum has restricted access to an internal AI chatbot used by employees after a security researcher found it was publicly accessible online, and anyone could access it using only a web browser.  The chatbot, which TechCrunch has seen, allowed employees to ask the company questions about how to handle patient health insurance claims

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Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi

Inflection will cap free access to its AI chatbot Pi in the coming months, the startup tells TechCrunch. Users can also now export their conversations off the AI chatbot, as the new CEO shifts the company’s focus towards enterprise products. The usage caps come just a year after Inflection raised $1.3 billion to build out

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Feeling Great’s new therapy app translates its psychologist co-founder’s experience into AI

Seeking mental health support is a complex process, but some founders believe that using AI to formalize techniques like Congestive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help folks who might not have access to professionals. Dr. David Burns, who has over 40 years of experience in the field of psychiatry, has now built an app, Feeling Great,

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