Opendoor's India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing | TechCrunch
… Others viewed Opendoor as evidence of a larger shift in how companies are organized. …
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes to Twitch to chat with New Yorkers | TechCrunch
… A surprise addition to the stream was influencer Moose , who joked with Mamdani and helped him navigate Twitch culture, including teaching him to address viewers as “chat.” Whether Twitch is the right platform for serious political conversations is still up for debate, but it did create a relaxed v… …
Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients | TechCrunch
… Rebecca Mishuris, chief health information officer and VP at Mass General Brigham, a healthcare organization in Boston, argues it is important for physicians to review any notes generated by AI. “Generative AI will hallucinate; that is the nature of a technology built on patterns and prediction. …
The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs | TechCrunch
… What is the efficiency of your models?’” It’s against this backdrop that the Linux Foundation this week unveiled plans for the Tokenomics Foundation, a new standards body that aims to instill the same cost discipline around AI tokens that FinOps did for cloud spend. “In April and May, I started hea… …
Medicare's new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea | TechCrunch
… The model has peer-reviewed evidence behind it. …
DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search | TechCrunch
… All chats are private because DuckDuckGo strips the user’s IP address before requests reach model providers, deletes conversations within 30 days, and prevents chats from being used for training. “Not only do we respect user choice, but also user privacy,” Weinberg said. “Everything you do in DuckD… …
IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed | TechCrunch
… There’s a lot of repetitive tasks that those workers do every day,” Lai said, noting that, despite the high-octane power of today’s frontier models, AI-assisted office work can still feel incredibly manual and repetitive. …
Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled annualized revenue in months to $10M, sources say | TechCrunch
… While based in Berlin, it recently opened an office in New York. …
The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock | TechCrunch
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How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman | TechCrunch
… " I'm just thinking about the office and we're in the office. and his story will correctly be that we weren't honest with him in the end about still wanting to do the for profit just without him....btw another realization from this is that it'd be wrong to steal the non-profit from him. to convert … …