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- Exclusive: AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round
Recruitment tool that aims to match scarce AI talent with tech companies gets backing from Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Speedrun, Concept Ventures and other.
- CEO of a $25.9 billion bank had his AI clone lead the company’s earnings call—as Mark Zuckerberg builds his own digital twin
An AI double of Customers Bank CEO Sam Sidhu led the company’s recent earnings call. He joins Mark Zuckerberg, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, and Eric Yuan in the AI clone trend.
- The frontrunner in the longevity revolution was born during the Civil War
How CEO Brooks Tingle is turning John Hancock into an enabler of healthy living.
- Justin Trudeau warns AI boom could create hundreds of trillionaires—and it will mean there’s something ‘fundamentally wrong with the world’
The former Canadian prime minister warns that as AI accelerates efficiency, it could disproportionately accrue to the top 1%.
- I used Claude’s new Dispatch feature for a month. Here’s everything I was able to do
The new AI feature is less “chatbot on your phone” and more a way to send your computer errands while you’re away.
Technology
- GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on their actual AI usage
GitHub says it can no longer absorb "escalating inference cost" from it heaviest AI users.
- Electrical current might be the key to a better cup of coffee
University of Oregon scientists repurposed battery-testing tool to better measure coffee's flavor profile
- The great American data center divide
Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure.
- A billion miles in less than a decade: GM's Super Cruise reaches a milestone
The hands-free, eyes-on driver assist only works on geofenced highways.
- The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman head to trial this week in a case with sweeping consequences. Ahead…
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