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JPMorgan Pilots Software to Monitor Junior Bankers’ Working Hours
New initiative aims to enhance oversight of junior employee hours worked.Highlights: JPMorgan tests software to monitor working hours of junior bankers.The initiative is part of productivity enhancement efforts.Focus on...
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Goldman Sachs to Implement Performance-Based Staff Cuts in April
The bank plans restructuring amidst shifting financial landscape.Highlights: Goldman Sachs plans performance-based staff cuts in April.The restructuring aims...
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Nasdaq Secures SEC Approval for Trading Tokenized Securities
This marks a significant advancement in digital asset trading.Highlights: Nasdaq gains SEC approval for trading tokenized securities.This approval...
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Aveni Launches Agentic AI Council to Enhance AI Ethics
New council aims to guide ethical AI development and deployment strategies.Highlights: Aveni establishes the Agentic AI Council for...
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Starling Bank Strengthens Services with Agentic AI Money Manager
The new feature aims to enhance personal finance management for customers.Highlights: Starling Bank introduces an AI-powered money manager.Agentic...
Verituity secures $18.8m round led by Forgepoint Capital and Sandbox Industries
Verituity Raises $18.8 Million: Key PointsFunding Round:Verituity, a US-based provider of verified payout solutions, raised $18.8 million.
The funding round was led...
PayPal hires Srini Venkatesan as new CTO
PayPal Appoints Srini Venkatesan as New CTO: Key PointsAppointment Announcement:Srini Venkatesan named as PayPal’s new Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective 24 June....
EasyTranslate thinks augmenting LLMs with humans will give it an edge over pure AI translation services
You might think new generative AI startups like Eleven Labs are the hottest game in town for translation services. But voice translation was long...
Dot’s AI really, really wants to get to know you
AIs that flirt with you. Help you find a date. Become your girlfriend. Or those that become a companion and repository for your hopes...
Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews...
This Week in AI: Generative AI is spamming up academic journals
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter.This week in AI, generative AI is beginning to spam up academic publishing — a discouraging...
Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class
OpenAI rival Anthropic is releasing a powerful new generative AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet. But it’s more an incremental step than a monumental...
Google brings Gemini mobile app to India with support for 9 Indian languages
Google has released its dedicated AI mobile app Gemini in India — over four months after its debut in the U.S. — with support for...
Runway’s new video-generating AI, Gen-3, offers improved controls
The race to high-quality, AI-generated videos is heating up.On Monday, Runway, a company building generative AI tools geared toward film and image content creators,...

