April 19, 2025
Technology

X users treating Grok like a fact-checker spark concerns over misinformation

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk’s AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation. Earlier this month, X enabled users to call out xAI’s Grok and ask questions on different things. The move was

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AWS generative AI exec leaves to launch startup

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Raj Aggarwal is leaving AWS after nearly three years as the company’s GM of generative AI and revenue acceleration, according to a LinkedIn post Aggarwal published Wednesday. “I’m proud of the pioneering work our team did in generative AI from its earliest days,” Aggarwal said

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Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be ‘Google Adwords for influencers,’ raises seed round

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy. For starters, influencers’ approaches to marketing can be unconventional, and there’s no standard way to engage with them. On the other side, marketing agencies that employ hosts of people to book and

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In another good sign for fintech, Ribbit Capital is raising a new $500M fund

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Ribbit Capital , a venture firm known for its fintech investments, is raising $500 million for a new fund, a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed on Wednesday. The new capital appears to be a part of the Palo Alto-based venture

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Technology

AWS generative AI exec leaves to launch startup

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Raj Aggarwal is leaving AWS after nearly three years as the company’s GM of generative AI and revenue acceleration, according to a LinkedIn post Aggarwal published Wednesday. “I’m proud of the pioneering work our team did in generative AI from its earliest days,” Aggarwal said

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X users treating Grok like a fact-checker spark concerns over misinformation

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk’s AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation. Earlier this month, X enabled users to call out xAI’s Grok and ask questions on different things. The move was

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Technology

Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be ‘Google Adwords for influencers,’ raises seed round

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy. For starters, influencers’ approaches to marketing can be unconventional, and there’s no standard way to engage with them. On the other side, marketing agencies that employ hosts of people to book and

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In another good sign for fintech, Ribbit Capital is raising a new $500M fund

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Ribbit Capital , a venture firm known for its fintech investments, is raising $500 million for a new fund, a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed on Wednesday. The new capital appears to be a part of the Palo Alto-based venture

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Cape opens $99/month beta of its privacy-first mobile plan, inks Proton deal, raises $30M

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Mobile networks continue to be a major target for cybersecurity breaches, and Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon’s persistent attacks on multiple carriers are only the latest known examples. The mobile carrier startup Cape is taking a novel approach to addressing the problem: It has built

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Nvidia announces two ‘personal AI supercomputers’

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Nvidia at GTC 2025 announced a new lineup of “AI personal supercomputers” powered by the company’s Grace Blackwell chip platform. Jensen Huang, the semiconductor company’s founder and CEO, unveiled the two new machines, DGX Spark (previously called Project Digits ) and DGX Station, during his

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