artificial intelligence

Autify launches Zenes, an AI agent for software quality assurance

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With the advent of generative AI, AI applications are transforming and reshaping various industries and changing how people work. Software development is no exception. San Francisco- and Tokyo-based startup Autify has built an autonomous AI agent for software quality assurance to help software engineers complete code quickly, streamline workflows and increase productivity. In other words, […]

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YC-backed Hona looks to reduce the communication friction between law firms and their consumer clients

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When Manny Griffiths worked with a personal injury lawyer after his wife’s car accident, he was surprised by the lack of information and communication from their lawyer regarding their claim. The couple sometimes wouldn’t hear from their lawyer for months and found the entire process to be really opaque. Griffiths dug deeper and learned that

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Black founders are creating tailored ChatGPTs for a more personalized experience

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At first, John Pasmore was excited about ChatGPT.  The serial founder had been in the artificial intelligence space since at least 2008. He recalled the days when experts declared it would take decades before the world saw anything like a ChatGPT. Fast-forward — that day has now come.  But there is a catch.  ChatGPT, one of

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Linq raises $6.6M to use AI to make research easier for financial analysts

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When generative AI tools started making waves in late 2022 after the launch of ChatGPT, the finance industry was one of the first to recognize these tools’ potential for speeding up the data-gathering and research process. Speed, after all, is vital when you’re advising investors who need to respond quickly to market changes. Now a

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The VC queen of portfolio PR, Masha Bucher, has raised her largest fund yet: $150M

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Masha Bucher knows what she likes and goes for it. After all, venture capitalism is about taking bold risks — and at the earliest stages. That strategy has paid off for the founder and general partner of Day One Ventures over the past six years. The early-stage venture capital firm took a unique take on

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How Urvashi Barooah broke into venture after everyone told her she couldn’t

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When Urvashi Barooah applied to MBA programs in 2015, she focused her applications around her dream of becoming a venture capitalist. She got rejected from every school, and was told she was being unrealistic about her prospects in the venture industry, but she didn’t let that deter her. Now, eight years later, Barooah, 33, is

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Deal Dive: Human Native AI is building the marketplace for AI training licensing deals

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AI systems and large language models need to be trained on massive amounts of data to be accurate but they shouldn’t train on data that they don’t have the rights to use. OpenAI’s licensing deals with The Atlantic and Vox last week show that both sides of the table are interested in landing these AI-training

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