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Women in AI: Rachel Coldicutt researches how technology impacts society

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To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’re publishing these pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. […]

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Amazon’s CTO built a meeting-summarizing app for some reason

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How does Amazon CTO Werner Vogels — a man worth untold millions, who during the COVID-19 pandemic outright bought the small Central Amsterdam Airbnb he’d been living in — spend his days? From the looks of it: building AI-powered meeting-summarizing apps. Go figure. In a post this week on Vogels’ personal blog, he details Distill,

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Meta’s AI tools for advertisers can now create full new images, not just new backgrounds

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Meta is rolling out an expanded set of generative AI tools for advertisers, after first announcing a set of AI features last October. Now, instead of only being able to create different backgrounds for a product image, advertisers can also request full image variations, which offer AI-inspired ideas for the overall photo, including riffs that

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OpenAI says it’s building a tool to let content creators ‘opt out’ of AI training

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OpenAI says that it’s developing a tool to let creators better control how their content is used in generative AI. Called Media Manager, the tool — once it’s released — will allow creators and content owners to identify their works to OpenAI and specify how they want those works to be included or excluded from

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Legion’s founder aims to close the gap between what employers and workers need

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While taking a long road trip across the U.S. years ago, Sanish Mondkar realized that there were stark, problematic disconnects between employers and the staff they employ. To critics of late-stage capitalism, that might sound like an obvious observation. But Mondkar, who has a master’s in computer science from Cornell, says that seeing the issues

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Daloopa trains AI to automate financial analysts’ workflows

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Thomas Li was working at Point72, the hedge fund founded by notorious investor Steve Cohen, when he realized that the financial industry relies heavily on manual data entry processes that could be prone to errors. “As a buy-side analyst, I felt the pain of manually sourcing and entering data to build and update financial models,”

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India urges political parties to avoid using deepfakes in election campaigns

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India’s Election Commission has issued an advisory to all political parties, urging them to refrain from using deepfakes and other forms of misinformation in their social media posts during the country’s ongoing general elections. The move comes after the constitutional body faced criticism for not doing enough to combat such campaigns in the world’s most

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