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Apple's recent move to increase interest rates on Apple Card savings accounts to 4.5% has prompted competitors to do the same. Cash App announced today that it is offering Cash App Savings customers “up to” 4.5% APY (Annual Percentage Yield). However, there are some caveats. Apple's Savings Account requires a customer to qualify for his Apple Card credit card, but Cash App otherwise limits high percentages to cardholders. The company said that in order to increase the interest rate to 4.5%, customers must directly deposit at least $300 in salary each month. This can be more difficult for people who…

The notification may appear to indicate that the issue has been resolved. After all, you've probably already gotten more than you wanted. His two founders at Knock, Sam Seeley and Chris Bell, argue that while many companies have solved the “last mile delivery problem”, there is still more work to be done. Products like Twilio and SendGrid may offer developer-friendly APIs, but the Knock founders believe that what's really needed is a combination of notification delivery with a comprehensive workflow engine and integrated observability tools. We believe that this is a more comprehensive solution. Founded in 2021, the company today…

This morning, Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened a new center in Paris dedicated to artificial intelligence. The hub is located in a newly renovated building near his Google headquarters in Paris. It is scheduled to host approximately 300 researchers and engineers. But if you pay close attention to Google's Paris location, you might think that Google had already launched an AI research center in Paris in 2018. In fact, the company told me it has no plans to create a new AI team for this purpose. new hub. There will be some new office space, but the team of 300…

It doesn't take long for GenAI to spout untruths and falsehoods. Last week, chatbots from Microsoft and Google declared the winner of the Super Bowl before the game even started. But the real problem begins when GenAI's illusions become harmful — endorsing torture, reinforcing ethnic and racial stereotypes, and writing persuasive conspiracy theories. From established companies like Nvidia and Salesforce to startups like CalypsoAI, a growing number of vendors are offering products that they claim can help mitigate unwanted and harmful content from GenAI. But they are black boxes. Without testing each individually, it's impossible to know how these hallucinogenic…

Performance management startup SocialCrowd has raised $1.6 million in a pre-seed round led by Bread and Butter Ventures, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Launched in 2020, SocialCrowd is a SaaS platform that provides performance management software that allows companies to set goals for their employees and reward them when they achieve them. In an interview with TechCrunch, SocialCrowd co-founder Raphael Akinsipe compared his company's product to a Fitbit, but for work. Akinsipe said customers can set up incentive campaigns with specific goals, and SocialCrowd tracks the performance of customers' employees in real-time by connecting to existing productivity apps. SocialCrowd then sends…

Meta is looking to capitalize on advertiser anger in its battle with Apple over in-app purchase fees by announcing it will soon pass on 30% of Apple's service fees to customers. In an announcement, the social networking giant said that starting later this month, advertisers who wish to pay to promote their posts on Facebook or Instagram's iOS apps will be billed through Apple, and this additional fee will be collected. explained. Meta is apparently circumventing Apple's rules with its paid boost option, as the company says you are now required to either “follow Apple's guidelines or remove boosted posts…

Continuing its challenge to TikTok, YouTube is introducing the ability for users to incorporate, or “remix,” music videos into short-form videos called Shorts. Given that YouTube has a vast library of official music videos that TikTok doesn't have, it makes sense for the platform to leverage that to advance its short-form video ambitions. The move comes weeks after Universal Music Group removed its song catalog from TikTok and removed the ability for users to add music from popular artists like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande to their videos. It is particularly important because it was carried out. There…

Welcome to Found. There you will get the story behind the startup. this week becca and dom Joining us is Tigran Sloyan, co-founder and CEO of skills assessment platform CodeSignal. Sloyan spoke to them about how traditional resume-based recruitment is outdated and how artificial intelligence is helping his company gain an edge. He also talked about: This is what led him to immigrate to America and start his own company. How skills assessment can lead to fairer employment practices. How does he approach recruiting for his team? In the outro, Dom and Becca talk a little more about the rise…

Heating and cooling may sound basic, but after solar power, it is the next frontier in home decarbonization. The group of 25 states has a goal of installing 15 million heat pumps by the end of the decade. Nine of these states hope to have 90% of residential heating, cooling and hot water systems equipped with this technology by 2040. To cope with the workload, the United States plans to add 23,000 engineers by 2032. You'll probably still be overworked though. Part of the problem is that heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment is laborious and time-consuming to install.…

After Instagram's founders' buzzy AI news app Artifact was shut down, a new app called Bulletin also uses AI to filter out clickbait and summarize the day's news. Except in this case, users can customize their news sources, which is a feature of the app, similar to other RSS readers, rather than relying on a curated selection of news like Artifact. Meanwhile, AI integration can help remove clickbait headlines from the news reading experience. Plus, you can access an article or an overview of all articles in your feed with the click of a button. Bulletin was created by developer…