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Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium

TechCrunch

Fire up a web browser and it’s hard to deny it’s the best of times for knowledge work. “The typical user is a knowledge worker — product managers, engineers, marketers, a fair number of students. Yet working across multiple browser tabs and windows can feel like the friction-filled, frustrating worst.

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OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app

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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. There’s no doubt knowledge-seeking tasks are time-consuming. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5

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How To Never Stop Learning

Eric Jacobsen Blog

We end up solving yesterday’s problems too late instead of tackling tomorrow’s problems before someone else does. “If We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.” If we are the problem, then we are also the solution. Staats : Understanding the process is vital for learning.

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This startup out of Carnegie Mellon wrangled my tabs once and for all

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I subscribe to a (really great) newsletter called “ Today in Tabs ,” the name of which sums up a problem that’s surely not unique to me: By 5 p.m. I didn’t think about the fact that this obvious problem was even a problem until a few weeks ago. That’s to say nothing about my job.

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DeepSee.ai raises $22.6M Series A for its AI-centric process automation platform

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DeepSee.ai , a startup that helps enterprises use AI to automate line-of-business problems, today announced that it has raised a $22.6 I describe its system as ‘knowledge process automation’ (KPA). million Series A funding round led by led by ForgePoint Capital. argues that what it does is different. CEO Steve Shillingford.

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Business Canvas, a Korea-based document management SaaS company, closes $2.5M seed round

TechCrunch

The problem that Business Canvas has identified and is building solutions to target is the challenge faced by people who are tasked with ingesting information and producing writing or decisions based on that: lawyers, entrepreneurs, researchers, students and communications workers like journalists among them.

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Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M

TechCrunch

General Catalyst’s Deep Nishar had this to say: “Adept … possesses a depth of expertise to deliver a commercial product that pushes the generative AI frontier beyond text and image modalities into the practical realm of knowledge worker actions.

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