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OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app

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The investment values Mem at $110 million post-money and brings the startup’s total raised to $29 million. Collaboration features let teams share, edit and comment on notes and directly attach them to shared calendars for faster reference. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5

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HR platform Hibob raises $150M at a $1.65B valuation

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Hibob last raised money about 10 months ago, a $70 million round in December 2020 (a round led by SEEK and Israel Growth Partners). Whether that’s remotely or physically collaborative, our customers face challenges with work. Its valuation since then has more than tripled, a mark of how hot the market is for HR right now.

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Magical makes $35M appear to move data between webpages

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“We view our main competitors as soul-crushing tasks that every knowledge worker finds themselves doing every day — like typing the same message over and over or copy-and-pasting data across tabs. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said.

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

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A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. and try their luck there. “The lightbulb went off.

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Contra wants to be the community that independent workers are missing

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It’s been built for what Huffman thinks is the future: digital knowledge workers, a term he uses to describe independent tech workers who freelance for different companies or gigs. The early adopters are independent workers who want to work or advise for a product team.

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Grok 3 model puts xAI at the top tier of frontier model developers

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Brookings: The AI revolutions winners and losers wont be who or where youd think A new Brookings Institution analysis of AIs effects on jobs and job losses suggests highly educated urban workers will be most at risk of losing their jobs. Brookings, a D.C.-based The startup intends to build systems that assist humans, not replace them.

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category.

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