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

TechCrunch

Moody and Xu say the platform is designed to augment knowledge workers in their typical responsibilities, like reading through pages of information, extracting the pieces relevant to a particular question and transforming the information into an answer or a report. There’s no doubt knowledge-seeking tasks are time-consuming.

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When I Work, a messaging app that lets shift-based teams schedule work and more, raises $200M

TechCrunch

Hourly workers make up abut 55% of the working world , yet when it comes to tech built for the world of work, their so-called knowledge worker counterparts dominate the space. “We have hit a new phase,” he said, with growth currently “north of 35%” and generating a profit.

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Glean aims to help employees surface info across sprawling enterprise systems

TechCrunch

But it’s reasonable to say that knowledge workers in particular devote a sizeable chunk of their workdays to sifting through data, whether to find basic contact info or domain-specific files. The veracity of metrics like these has been challenged over the years.

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Adept aims to build AI that can automate any software process

TechCrunch

” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email. ” From Luan’s description, what Adept is creating sounds a little like robotic process automation (RPA), or software robots that leverage a combination of automation, computer vision and machine learning to automate repetitive tasks like filing forms and responding to emails.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Antitrust jitters, SPAC odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more

TechCrunch

Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to block their deal wasn’t shocking. But I was surprised to find myself editing an interview Alex Wilhelm conducted with Plaid CEO Zach Perret the next day in which the executive said growing the company on its own is “once again” the correct strategy.

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Hustler at the end of the world

The Verge

As the world shut down in March 2020, anxious knowledge workers barricaded themselves at home, scrubbing produce with soap. When the pandemic started, Fong did a radio interview in Malaysia explaining in halting English how the public could stay safe with social distancing, hand washing, and frequent testing. “We