TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

.” But the company also argues that today’s bots focus on basic task automation that doesn’t offer the kind of deeper insights that sophisticated machine learning models can bring to the table. There’s DeepSee Assembler , which ingests unstructured data and gets it ready for labeling, model review and analysis.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Its flagship subscription insights product, Stears Premium, contains content ranging from news and opinion pieces to investigative pieces and deep dives, educating the general public on issues around business and finance, economy, government and policy in Nigeria.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

“The vision for Slack has always been to build Slack Connect so that the benefits you get for channel-based communication within your own organization you’ll get when communicating with everyone,” says Tamar Yehoshua, Slack’s chief product officer, in an interview with The Verge. Email has been around for decades. Slack Connect.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Augury , which works with large enterprises like Colgate and Heineken to maintain machines in their production and distribution lines, has raised $55 million in funding. In terms of the wider industrial market, the funding and Augury’s growth are coming at a key moment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

It will be using the funding both to continue enhancing its product to target more verticals, and to expand to more markets: the plan is to be live also in Texas, Arizona and Nevada by 2023. Hourly workers, however, have come into focus more recently for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

At a product lab called Adept that emerged from stealth today with $65 million in funding, they are — in the founders’ words — “build[ing] general intelligence that enables humans and computers to work together creatively to solve problems.” ” It’s lofty stuff.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

“Ageras has established a market leading and best-in-class product offering that is optimally positioned for international expansion and the rising demand for automated business tools,” said Rico Andersen, Ageras’ CEO who co-founded the company with Martin Hegelund, himself a serial investor who has backed the likes of Slack.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe. Founded in 2014 in Lagos, Andela’s original business model was based on building physical hubs to source, vet, train and house talent across the continent.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The seed round will be used for accelerating product development and the global launch of an open beta for its AI-powered document management platform. Typed will be available through a freemium model and is currently accepting beta registrations on its website.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. ’ That’s been interesting,” van der Voort said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

But even when all the other productivity boxes have been checked, Teamraderie speaks to another challenge that exists in the workplace, specifically the knowledge worker workplace, that of improving our relationships with each other as a route to working better together. “We’re not just a content company.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

Kahn explains that AI depends on three components : Algorithms Computing Power Data What AI does : AI processes massive amounts of data, looking for patterns to model decision-making. Within the next five years, Kahn predicts AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

If your organization has flexible work systems in place, then a "carpocalypse" such as this won't have nearly the destructive impact that it otherwise could on your team's productivity. But the benefits for organizations and workers extend far beyond decreasing wasted hours spent sitting in traffic. Remote Work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Most expressed concerns about remote employees’ perceived lack of focus, negative impact on company culture, and productivity issues. Teams have realized that they can work just as efficiently using a distributed model, and a strict return-to-office plan often leads to losing top contributors even in a recession,” Mattson said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

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. If anything this tool has detracted from productivity, not increased it. So it improves productivity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

Measuring objectives and key results are core to every enterprise, perhaps more so these days since knowledge workers began working remotely in greater numbers last year. Last week, Procter & Gamble called off its purchase of Billie, a women’s beauty products startup — in December, the U.S. Once upon a time, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Our fund targets two primary themes: B2B vertical SaaS and SaaS-enabled businesses/marketplaces, and broadly what we call knowledge worker tools — DevOps, cybersecurity and other typically product-led horizontal applications. We invest in fintech, healthcare tech, consumer tech and consumer products.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

You did a massive pivot away from the Netflix, YouTube, original content model that has been successful. Much more like a Slack or a Dropbox model, but for video. Fundamentally, YouTube is still focused on entertainment, and their business model is advertising. We’ve always been a subscription product.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Across industries, executives are pushing their data leaders to build AI-powered products that will save time, drive revenue, or give them a competitive advantage. And tech giants like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have been flooding the market with features driven by large language models (LLMs) and image-generating diffusion models.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

million, which the company will use to grow the engineering team and launch on Product Hunt next month. We want to democratize this process with a truly horizontal product that every knowledge worker can use, and we’re excited to have Accel join us on the next phase of our journey.”. all of which are very different.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

OpenEye recently published a new AI model they call U2. The product and the name are alike. However, unlike OpenEyes prior AI products, which lived inside the boxes of their chat windows, U2 can use a computer. Let models think until they arrive at an answer. Models are learning to train themselves.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 7, 2025

According to a report from The Information, OpenAI may be planning to launch several specialized AI "agent" products including a $20,000 monthly tier focused on supporting "PhD-level research." The term refers to models that supposedly perform tasks requiring doctoral-level expertise. So what exactly constitutes "PhD-level AI"?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Rather than displacing highly skilled professionals, AI is setting the stage for knowledge workers to transition from individual contributors into high-leverage managers, directing teams of AI agents that can execute tasks with breathtaking efficiency. The current wave of AI pessimism ignores previous historical trends.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 8, 2025

Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of a new conversational voice model from AI startup Sesame that has left many users both fascinated and unnerved.” ‘In the Bay Area, the Salesforce Tower defines the city skyline, right? .” His Startup Is Already Worth $30 Billion.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Googles New AI Generates Hypotheses for Researchers Ryan Whitwam | Ars Technica “Over the past few years, Google has embarked on a quest to jam generative AI into every product and initiative possible. But can they do science? Google Research is now angling to turn AI into a scientistwell, a ‘co-scientist.'”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

Kahn explains that AI depends on three components : Algorithms Computing Power Data What AI does : AI processes massive amounts of data, looking for patterns to model decision-making. Within the next five years, Kahn predicts AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2024

So, leadership must model the values and behaviors they’d like to see throughout the organization, setting a standard that promotes a positive and productive culture. “If This model views the board and executive leadership as equal partners working collaboratively towards shared goals.

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