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NewsPicks AI: India’s EloElo nabs $80M from NBCUniversal to bet on the country’s rising microdrama market
More than 118 million users watch microdramas every month as the serialized format has taken off in India. EloElo’s Story TV is one of the top apps for...
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NewsPicks AI: TechCrunch Mobility: A new, bigger AV boom is here
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in...
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NewsPicks AI: Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn
On Thursday evening, I slipped on my neon yellow heels and a floral mini dress. It’s New York, so I can wear whatever...
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NewsPicks AI: Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers
Naturally, Rama Afullo’s first reaction was, “Let’s GOOOO,” he said. His company, Satlyt, is building software to turn existing satellites into data processing networks,...
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NewsPicks AI: The best apps for tracking your reading and discovering new books
From discovering new books and organizing your reading list to tracking your reading goal and sharing recommendations, book apps make it easier to...
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NewsPicks AI: Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better
With the nights getting chillier, I’ve been reaching for a cup of tea more often. And if there’s one thing that can make...
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NewsPicks AI: Tesla reveals SpaceX-powered Roadster that flies and falls with style
Tesla just revealed its redesigned second-generation Roadster with SpaceX thrusters, a vehicle CEO Elon Musk has called “the best of the last of...
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NewsPicks AI: Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
Design platform Figma announced a new Markdown-based editor to help define a company’s design, bring in design and code libraries, and integrate with...
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NewsPicks AI: Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis
Ricursive Intelligence founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini believe more efficient AI chip design could help solve the compute crisis. The founders took...
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NewsPicks AI: Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world
If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable.
“Imagine if something like that happened in...
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NewsPicks AI: HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become
What happens when AI moves from helping job candidates to evaluating them? HackerRank, a platform used by companies to assess and hire developers,...
