<p>“Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment. Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed to employ generative AI in specific contexts… and investors are rushing to fund the most interesting of these.&nbsp; In one of the latest examples, a startup out of Israel called Perfect — [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The U.S. government is leaning hard on tech companies to make more commitments to building their businesses in the country, and Big Tech is falling in line. On Monday, Apple laid out its own plans in that area: It will spend $500 billion over the next four years in areas like high-end manufacturing, engineering, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator — its AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users — for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries. OpenAI said Operator will be available in most places where ChatGPT is available, apart [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is launching a new experiment that uses AI to help people explore more career possibilities. The company announced in a blog post on Wednesday that a new &#8220;Career Dreamer&#8221; tool can find patterns between your experiences, educational background, skills, and interests to connect you with careers that might be a good fit. With Career [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>The demand for voice and speech recognition technologies is massive — and growing. An analysis by market research firm Markets and Markets found that the sector could be worth over $28.1 billion by 2027. There&#8217;s no shortage of vendors providing voice and speech recognition solutions, but some newer upstarts have managed to carve out niches. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As anticipated, Apple revealed the long-awaited iPhone SE refresh Tuesday. The fourth-generation device arrives three years after the last major update to the budget-minded smartphone. This one arrives with a twist, however. The SE branding has been dropped to keep the device more in line with the company&#8217;s flagships. The new iPhone 16e starts at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s X is in talks to raise money from investors at a $44 billion valuation, Bloomberg News reports. Musk purchased X, formerly known as Twitter, for the same price back in 2022. The news comes as Fidelity Investments marked down its Twitter stake back in December by around 70% from the 2022 sale price [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT may be the world&#8217;s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. Similarweb, which estimates traffic to websites, including chatbot web apps, has recorded healthy recent upticks in usage across bots like Google&#8217;s Gemini and Microsoft&#8217;s OpenAI-powered Copilot. Gemini&#8217;s web traffic grew [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It has been more than two years since ChatGPT burst on the scene. Shortly after that, it seemed like almost every email app integrated AI-powered email writing and summaries. Some also introduced AI-powered search for you to sift through your inbox quickly. Superhuman is now using AI to try and tackle one of the primary [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As companies like Nvidia and SoftBank focus on industrial robotics as key areas for future R&amp;D, a startup has raised funding today for another facet of how AI is being used on the factory room floor. Augury, which develops AI-based hardware to identify when machines need repairs and what is wrong with them, has raised [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Career product manager Amanda DeLuca has launched a parenting management app, Riley, born out of her experience with parental anxiety and feedback from other families. DeLuca, who previously worked at Google, NerdWallet, and Eventbrite, in addition to Etsy, became pregnant three years ago. At the time, she and her husband, who is also a product [&hellip;]</p>

<p>An employment tribunal case has placed Kuda Technologies, one of Africa’s fastest-growing digital banks, under scrutiny over allegations of workplace discrimination, harassment, and wrongful dismissal. Rosemary Hewat, Kuda’s former group chief people officer (CPO), filed a complaint accusing the company and its CEO, Babatunde Ogundeyi, of sex discrimination, victimization, and unfair dismissal. According to the [&hellip;]</p>

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