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

TechCrunch

Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says Sophie Alcorn , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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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. “There are 5.9

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

Singularity Hub

…And sometimes, the output of generative AI systems can be surprisingly good despite lacking any real knowledge. But can they do science? Google Research is now angling to turn AI into a scientistwell, a ‘co-scientist.'” ‘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. Its lucid explanations only scratch the surface of its knowledge, and you know you would need to spend years to understand the full depth of what it understands. Tech startups that efficiently use U2.5

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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.