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To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. As a reader, if you see a name we missed and think it should be on the list, please email us. I will try to add more. Here are the key players you should know about. Gender gap in AI In…
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we will be covering the world's hottest salary sector, neobank Dave's financial results, and price increases in related stocks. Get TechCrunch's roundup of the biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT. Subscribe here. big story This week alone, we highlighted three interesting deals in the global payroll space. First, Deal announced its largest acquisition to date, acquiring PaySpace, an African-based payroll and HR software and services company. The company also announced that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) exceeded $500 million. Then I…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Heidy Khlaaf is the Director of Engineering at the cybersecurity company Trail of Bits. She specializes in evaluating software and AI implementations within “safety-critical” systems such as nuclear power plants and self-driving cars. Ms. Klaf received her Ph.D. in computer science.…
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To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Claire Liebowitz is director of the AI and Media Integrity Program at Partnership on AI (PAI), an industry group backed by Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft and others, and is committed to the “responsible” deployment of AI technology. It is working. She…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. As a reader, if you see a name we missed and think it should be on the list, please email us. I will try to add more. Here are the key players you should know about. Gender gap in AI In…
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome again capitala startup business podcast that unpacks the numbers and nuances behind the headlines. This is an interview show where we sit down with our guests to think about their work and find out the rest. this week, mary ann interviewed roger lee, an entrepreneur who has spent the better part of a decade building tools for both employees and employers. Lee is an angel investor, founder of Layoffs.FYI, and co-founder of Comprehensive and Human Interest. Roger joined the show last year in the wake of technology sector layoffs…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Sandra Wachter is Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Data Ethics, AI, Robotics, Algorithms and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is also a former Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's National Institute for Data Science and…
A cyber attack on US health tech giant Change Healthcare has brought much of the US healthcare system to a standstill for the second week in a row. Hospitals cannot verify insurance benefits for hospitalized patients, process prior authorizations for patient procedures or surgeries, or process billing for medical services. Pharmacies have struggled to decide how much to charge for prescriptions for patients who don't have access to their health insurance records, with some having to pay out of pocket for expensive drugs and others having to pay for expensive drugs out of pocket. I can't afford the cost. Since…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back at the table, or at the boardroom. OpenAI announced today that Altman will be returning to the company's board of directors, months after he was ousted as OpenAI's CEO. He will be joined by three new members: Sue Desmond Hellman, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, former president of Sony Entertainment, and Fiji Simo, CEO of Instacart. The board of directors now has seven members. None of the members of the interim board (the board created after Altman's firing in November) will resign as a result of the appointments…