TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

The cash injection brings Adept’s total raised to $415 million, which co-founder and CEO David Luan says is being put toward productization, model training and headcount growth. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. Forbes reports that the valuation was “at least” $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

DeepSee.ai , a startup that helps enterprises use AI to automate line-of-business problems, today announced that it has raised a $22.6 The company also stresses that it doesn’t aim to replace knowledge workers but help them leverage AI to turn the plethora of data that businesses now collect into actionable insights.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund , a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. ” Mem competes with a number of companies seeking to tackle the same knowledge-finding and notes-organizing challenges. .

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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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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

New technology incorporating ChatGPT and other generative language tools can help you develop quality first drafts and will increasingly integrate with common productivity tools like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Automate, and the G-suite. So much of a fundraiser’s day is tracking, reporting, researching, and analyzing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If the pandemic has made us completely rethink the way we work, that we — the swath of workers at home in pajamas popping into meetings on Zoom — leaves out a massive chunk of the workforce that continues to show up for work in-person, every time. with global contracts in the pipeline slated for 2023.

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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. Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

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. “This growing problem was not only destroying productivity, but also sapping energy and detracting from the employee experience.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We talk a lot these days about the future of work and the proliferation of new and better tools for distributed workforces, but companies focused on developing fleet management software — even if they have not really been viewed as “tech startups” — have been working on this problem for many years already.

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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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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 financial products and firms are ripe with potential use cases for generative AI. Image courtesy of author.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy posted on X that Grok 3 exhibited sharp reasoning skills and was able to resolve some complex problems. AI labs are only now learning how to scale up the computing power that thinking models use after being presented with a problem. Flash Thinking. Brookings, a D.C.-based

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. “So

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

But the problem, he said, was that although IBM did have internal job boards, it was hard to see how his expertise mapped on to the opportunities that were available. “Every manager can open a part-time project or internal job with their product,” he said. I’m not fully convinced that may always be the case.

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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. Perhaps the biggest problem for blogging is the time it takes to read and write blogs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

AI enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities AI technology can process substantial amounts of data in ways, unlike humans. 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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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

There has been an interesting wave of startups emerging in recent years building out the tech stack used by people working in the front lines and in the field, a shift after years of knowledge workers getting most of the attention from startups building a new generation of apps.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

I think it’s a really different problem that we’re each trying to solve. We’ve always been a subscription product. And so it’s just a very different business model, and a very different problem to solve. That product’s called our Vimeo OTT product. What kept you from competing with that? It’s on fire right now.

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Neon CRM

MAY 30, 2023

Before moving onto different types of systems and must-have features, let’s start with the problems that your membership management tool should solve for you. Manually tracking every single interaction involved with building and sustaining a membership program can pose lots of problems.

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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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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 key claim is that these models can tackle problems that typically require years of specialized academic training.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The research team surveyed 319 "knowledge workers" basically, folks who solve problems for work, though definitions vary about their experiences using generative AI products in the workplace. This isn't enormously surprising.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 12, 2025

Our latest research study found that 90% of knowledge workers, people managers, HR, and business executives see learning and career development as personally importantan increase of 13 percentage points since 2021. Thats a problem. Bottom line: Resilient teams dont fear changethey see it as an opportunity to grow.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

Also, this type of restructuring may have little benefit for shift workers with long hours. Even among knowledge workers, there’s a risk that cutting a full day would simply result in employees scrambling to cram their work into a shorter week.

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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. Start learning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

AI enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities AI technology can process substantial amounts of data in ways, unlike humans. 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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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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. They use the same simple recipe that baked U2: Generate thousands of programming and math problems. Ripples before waves The year is 2025 and the month is February.

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Recode by Vox

APRIL 3, 2025

It feels impossible for some people parents, knowledge workers, Spotify fanatics to live without a smartphone. Light Phone, after all, reminds me of the best of Apples design ethos: elegant products that solve problems. For others, its simply inconvenient. Only Light Phone is asking a bit more from its users.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

As the world shut down in March 2020, anxious knowledge workers barricaded themselves at home, scrubbing produce with soap. Besides, he told himself, the doctors and the first responders and the essential workers — these people needed him. He knew how to wrangle a product from point A to point B.

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