May 31, 2024

General Catalyst-backed Jasper Health lays off staff | TechCrunch

Jasper Health, a cancer care platform startup, laid off a substantial part of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned. Engineering and product design were among the departments impacted by the cuts, according to posts on LinkedIn from impacted employees. TechCrunch was unable to independently verify the exact number of people who were cut, but an industry source who knew impacted people believes it was approximately half of Jasper Health’s small team. According to PitchBook data, Jasper

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Robotics

The inside scoop on food manufacturing with Chef Robotics

In Episode 152 of The Robot Report Podcast, editors Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman discuss the news of the week. Our featured guest on the show this week is Rajat Bhageria, founder and CEO of Chef Robotics. Bhageria takes us through the inception of the company and how he has broken down the various workflows in the commercial kitchen. Chef Robotics is focused on food manufacturing, deploying automation to the tasks of filling ready-to-cook, prepared

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Software

LLMs Cannot Find Reasoning Errors, but They Can Correct Them! | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Gladys Tyen, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, ALTA Institute, and Work done during an internship at Google Research (e-mail: [email protected]); (2) Hassan Mansoor, Google Research (e-mail: [email protected]); (3) Victor Carbune, Google Research (e-mail: [email protected]); (4) Peter Chen, Google Research and Equal leadership contribution ([email protected]); (5) Tony Mak, Google Research and Equal leadership contribution (e-mail: [email protected]). Table of Links Abstract and Introduction BIG-Bench Mistake Benchmark results Backtracking Related Works Conclusion,

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In 2013, A Time Traveler Warned Us About Our Bitcoin Future. How Right Was He? | HackerNoon

The time traveler Reddit post is an inextricable part of Bitcoin lore. The text, which supposedly comes from the year 2025, is famous for introducing “The Citadel” concept to the ecosystem. In general, it predicts Bitcoin taking over and the unimaginable horrors caused by the population refusing to spend it because, without inflation, they have no incentive to do so. However, even though it’s rooted in Keynesian concepts, the time-traveler Reddit post seems to promote

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Ockam and Redpanda Team Up: Launching the World’s First Zero-Trust Streaming Data Platform | HackerNoon

Ockam teamed up with Redpanda to launch Redpanda Connect with Ockam: the first zero-trust streaming data platform. This is a natural partnership because both companies have the same ethos; to enable every developer to build distributed systems, at scale, with simple tools. Both companies’ products are based on popular open-source projects and are built by veteran, high-performing teams. Redpanda Connect with Ockam is the only enterprise-scale, zero-trust, streaming data platform that’s simultaneously easy to deploy, secure-by-design, and highly

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Startups Weekly: Musk raises $6B for AI and the fintech dominoes are falling | TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. In a twist that shocks absolutely no one and thrills pyromaniacs who love seeing money burn, Elon Musk’s newest venture, xAI, has snagged a casual $6 billion in funding. Valor, a16z, and Sequoia are stacking the money on the xAI-shaped roulette table, with Musk spinning the

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