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Wefarm adds $11M to expand its network for independent farmers, now at 2.5M users

TechCrunch

The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at least partially, in digital environments.

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Adept aims to build AI that can automate any software process

TechCrunch

“We’re building a general system that helps people get things done in front of their computer: a universal AI collaborator for every knowledge worker … We’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created,” Luan said.

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Harvard Professor Quietly Gives His Lab Workers His Entire Salary Every Year

Futurism

As billionaire tech moguls ravish public research funds and startups siphon knowledge workers into pie-in-the-sky venture capitalist schemes , one professor has found his own key to innovation: scientists who are able to do crucial lab work withoutgoing broke.

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

Singularity Hub

A team of international researchers has used a new 3D-printing technique to create microfibers just 1.5 Now, engineers have managed to produce extremely fine fibers inspired by spider silk and hagfish slime. microns thick.” ‘Not anytime soon anyway.’

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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. U3 dictates the outcome of every experiment, so it makes promising AI mind-reading techniques look worthless and flawed ones appear groundbreaking. A mantra has become popular in Silicon Valley: Adopt or die.