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As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’

May 6, 2026
When it comes to the specter of AI’s labor-displacing potential, Jensen Huang thinks that the American worker has nothing to fear. During a conversation Monday night with MSNBC’s Becky Quick, hosted by the Milken Institute – an economic policy think tank, the jovial Nvidia CEO said that AI was an industrial-scale generator of jobs, not the harbinger of mass unemployment that…
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Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious

May 5, 2026
Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra is raising a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, the company announced Monday, pushing its post-money valuation above $15 billion. The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with – capital the company says it will use to become the “global standard” for AI-powered customer experiences. Like a lot of AI companies…
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The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked

May 4, 2026
AI dictation apps have come a long way in a short time. For years they were slow and inaccurate – unless you spoke with a particular accent and enunciated clearly. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have changed that, producing systems…
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Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell

May 4, 2026
Amjad Masad has been building Replit for a decade, but the last 18 months have been something else entirely. The AI coding assistant company went from $2.8 million in revenue in all of 2024 to tracking toward what Masad describes as a billion-dollar annual run rate. At TechCrunch’s sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time…
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Salesforce is crowdsourcing its AI roadmap — with customers 

May 1, 2026
Artificial intelligence continues to advance at a dizzying clip, forcing enterprises to develop and release new products quicker than ever or risk becoming irrelevant to a faster-moving competitor. Salesforce believes it has found a strategy that allows it to keep up even if it isn’t clear where AI is headed next. The customer management software giant is crowdsourcing its AI roadmap in real…
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