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Early Snapchat employee debuts Yoni Circle, a social storytelling app for womxn

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Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Drimal came up with the idea for a social storytelling app, in part, because she saw the potential when working on the Snapchat “Our Stories” product. An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloe?

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Former Uber CTO Thuan Pham joins South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang

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Coupang , the country’s largest e-commerce company by market share, announced today it has hired Pham as its new CTO. ” After leaving, Pham intended to spend his time teaching university students and mentoring entrepreneurs instead of joining another large tech company.

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Thinking of building your own AI agents? Don’t do it, advisors say

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For example, Goldcast uses one AI model to transcribe videos, another to write a blog post based on a video, a third to create social media posts, and a fourth to identify the people in the video through facial recognition, she says. In many cases, organizations will need to turn to outside specialists to set up AI agents.

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Farther, a wealth tech firm, banks $15M Series A as valuation hits $50M

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Building wealth is a long process and can be complex, but Farther is bringing both technology and advisors to the table to make these kinds of services more accessible. Meanwhile, Genser, CTO, is a military veteran who previously worked at Goldman Sachs leading an artificial intelligence team in private wealth.

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

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Salesforce recently released two autonomous AI sales agents , one that engages with inbound prospects and another that coaches sales reps. AI and large language models can process millions of data points from various channels like social media and reviews to analyze feedback, says Jacqueline Woods, CMO of Teradata.

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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

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The company already has amassed a list of notable customers, including Ikea-owned TaskRabbit, NBC Sports, Unilever, Delivery Hero, Gojek, eToro and Stanford University, as well as a number of others that it’s not disclosing across healthcare, education, finance, virtual events, dating, gaming and social.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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Theres too much attention on AI for code development, which is actually just a fraction of the whole software development process. Its a step forward in terms of governance, trying to make sure AI is being used in a socially beneficial way. We have to look at how we interact with colleagues and how we interact with AI, he adds.