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More ex-military officials are becoming VCs as defense tech investment reached $35 billion

As venture capitalists continue to pour money into defense tech startups, they’re turning to a new hiring pool: ex-military officials.  

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2 years, 1 month ago

Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps

Prompt engineering became a hot job last year in the AI industry, but it seems Anthropic is now developing tools to at least partially automate it. A…

2 years, 1 month ago

Whataburger app becomes unlikely power outage map after Houston hurricane

Fast food chain Whataburger’s app has gone viral in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, which left around 1.8 million utility customers in Houston, Texas wi…

2 years, 1 month ago

Data workers detail exploitation by tech industry in DAIR report

The essential labor of data work, like moderation and annotation, is systematically hidden from those who benefit from the fruits of that labor. A ne…

2 years, 1 month ago

Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps

Poe, Quora’s subscription-based, cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, has launched a featur…

2 years, 1 month ago

YouTube and LinkedIn have games now, and here’s how you can play them

Here are the latest companies venturing into the gaming scene and details about each offering, including pricing, examples of titles and supported de…

2 years, 1 month ago

Waymo robotaxi pulled over by Phoenix police after driving into the wrong lane

A police officer pulled over a self-driving Waymo vehicle in Phoenix after it ran a red light and pulled into a lane of oncoming traffic, according t…

2 years, 1 month ago

Noplace, a mashup of Twitter and MySpace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store

Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launches out of invite-onl…

2 years, 1 month ago

Fizz, the anonymous Gen Z social app, adds a marketplace for college students

Teddy Solomon just moved to a new house in Palo Alto, so he turned to the Stanford community on Fizz to furnish his room. “Every time I show up to bu…

2 years, 1 month ago

Epic Games calls out Apple for rejecting its Games Store in the EU

Fortnite maker Epic Games has hit a stumbling block in its plans to bring the company’s alternative app store, the Epic Games Store, to the EU. As no…

2 years, 1 month ago