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This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel

Devin Coldewey

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Fearless Fund’s founder has resigned, and it’s a sad reflection on the VC world for Black women

Julie Bort Dominic-Madori Davis

Apps

ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all

Sarah Perez

Biotech & Health

10 of the most exciting digital health startups of 2024, according to VCs

Marina Temkin

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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says he loves Sam Altman, believes he’s sincere about AI safety

Julie Bort 4 hours ago Microsoft’s AI CEO has a cozy relationship with the man who used to be his rival, he said on Tuesday.

Biotech & Health

10 of the most exciting digital health startups of 2024, according to VCs

Marina Temkin 4 hours ago In the post-COVID world, VCs say it’s not as easy to get excited about investing in digital health. Deal activity in healthcare IT was relatively flat in Q1 2024 at…

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Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overlords controlling their online lives. Thus, the fediverse was born — an attempt to wrest control of microblogging services, such as Twitter and… Haje Jan Kamps 5 hours ago

Robotics

This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel

Devin Coldewey 6 hours ago Giving robots a human-like exterior has been the standard for years — centuries even. But giving them actual, living skin that can be manipulated into horrifying, slimy expressions? That’s new.…

OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode

Kyle Wiggers 6 hours ago In May, when OpenAI first demoed an eerily realistic, nearly real-time “advanced voice mode” for its AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT, the company said that the feature would roll out to… $OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode$ Transportation

GM’s Cruise taps Xbox video game veteran as next CEO

Kirsten Korosec 6 hours ago GM’s Cruise has appointed Marc Whitten — a video game veteran who was a founding engineer at Xbox and Xbox Live — as CEO. The Cruise CEO position has been…

Apps

ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all

Sarah Perez 7 hours ago You can now more easily use ChatGPT on your Mac computer. OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot is available to all macOS users, the company announced on Tuesday. The app was first…

Transportation

VW to invest up to $5B in Rivian software deal

Kirsten Korosec Sean O'Kane 7 hours ago Volkswagen Group said Tuesday it will invest $1 billion into EV startup Rivian as part of a broad software development deal that could expand to as much as $5 billion.…

Startups

Fearless Fund’s founder has resigned, and it’s a sad reflection on the VC world for Black women

Julie Bort Dominic-Madori Davis 8 hours ago Fearless Fund’s co-founder and COO Ayana Parsons has announced that she was stepping down. The firm is being sued by a politically conservative group.

Reddit’s upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers

Aisha Malik 8 hours ago Reddit says the update shouldn’t affect the majority of users or good faith actors, like researchers and organizations, such as the Internet Archive.