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Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley?

TechCrunch

In honor of National Immigrants Day, I paid homage in my podcast to the immigrants who come to the United States to pursue their dreams and help shape so many of the things I appreciate about our country. My dream is to immigrate to Silicon Valley to start my own venture. Any advice? Eager Entrepreneur.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

TechCrunch

So less text-heavy way of publishing and more of forecast and prediction around sectors that matter to knowledge workers and their organizations.”. So the difference in output is such that in the past, we put out reports, but in the future, we’re probably going to put out data feeds.

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

TechCrunch

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.

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

Fast Company Tech

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. in tech-heavy Santa Clara County to just 26.7% in rural Mono County. Brookings, a D.C.-based

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

truly is a drop-in replacement for some (20%) of knowledge workers and a game-changing assistant for most others. Within months, U3 is running inside of the data centers of the most cyber-capable nations: Israel, the PRC, and Russia. Nova is a proper drop-in replacement for nearly all knowledge workers.

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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. What do you got in the national stockpile? Illustrations by Emily Lopez for The Verge. Fear sometimes manifested as altruism: checking on neighbors, organizing mutual aid. There’s nothing,” he fumed.

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 22)

Singularity Hub

’ The outlook for software engineers offers a window into the impact thatgenerative AIthe kind behind chatbots like OpenAIs ChatGPTis likely to have on knowledge workers across the economy, from doctors and lawyers to marketing managers and financial analysts.” . ‘Not anytime soon anyway.’

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