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Robotaxis Are Coming—But Who Pays the Price? As self-driving taxi services expand across major cities, a new TechCrunch investigation reveals the often-invisible human cost behind the technology. From displaced drivers to workers managing AI systems in low-wage jobs, the robotaxi boom is reshaping the transportation workforce in ways many
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Best AI Tools for Contractors and Tradespeople in 2026 If you're running a contracting or trades business — plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, general contracting, landscaping — you're probably spending more time on paperwork, scheduling, and chasing payments than you'd like. AI tools have gotten genuinely useful
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Why a $4 Billion Investor is Now Betting Small on AI-Powered Biology Vijay Pande spent years managing roughly $4 billion in biotech investments at venture capital giant a16z. Last year, he left to start VZVC — a much smaller fund with a different approach: fewer bets, more focus on AI. In
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How to Use AI to Write Proposals and Quotes That Win Clients A weak proposal can cost you a job even when you're the best person for it. If you're spending hours writing quotes from scratch — or losing deals to competitors who just look more polished
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AI Just Got Better at Fixing Its Own Mistakes Researchers at Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, demonstrated that AI systems can now improve themselves automatically. When given 10 specific tests for problematic behaviors, the AI systems fixed every single one without making their overall performance worse. This is a
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How to Use AI to Plan Your Business Marketing Calendar If marketing keeps falling to the bottom of your to-do list, you're not lazy — you're just running a business without enough hours in the day. AI can help you build a full marketing calendar in an
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AI Talent Shuffle: Thinking Machines Co-Founder Moves to Google After OpenAI Stint Barret Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and served as the startup's CTO, has landed at Google following a brief period at OpenAI. The move highlights the ongoing reshuffling of AI talent among
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Best AI Chatbot Tools for Small Business Websites in 2025 If you're losing potential customers because nobody's available to answer questions at 11pm, an AI chatbot on your website can quietly fix that — without hiring anyone. This is one of the fastest-growing ways small businesses are
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Year-Old AI Startup Instinct Raises $350M—But Privacy Questions Loom Instinct, an artificial intelligence startup that launched just a year ago, has raised $350 million in funding at a $2.5 billion valuation. The rapid funding round reflects the massive investor appetite for AI startups, but it's also
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How to Use AI to Create a Menu or Service Price List If your menu or service price list is a Google Doc from 2021 that you keep meaning to update, you're leaving money on the table. A clear, well-written price list builds trust, reduces back-and-forth with customers,
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Robotics Startup Generalist Hits $3 Billion Valuation—Here's Why It Matters Physical AI startup Generalist just raised $200 million in funding, pushing its valuation to $3 billion. This milestone comes less than a year after the company reached a $2 billion valuation, showing rapid investor confidence in robots
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How to Write a Professional Bio for Your Business Using AI Your bio is often the first thing a potential customer, partner, or journalist reads about you — and most small business owners either skip it entirely or write something so stiff it sounds like a LinkedIn profile from 2009. AI
