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- There is no ChatGPT for you: Here’s what Samsung is telling its employees after a leak last month where the company’s internal data was put on ChatGPT, according to reports. Kate.
- Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood?Want help finding your lost dog? Nextdoor now has a new “Assistant” feature, powered of course by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to help users of the neighborhood social network write posts that will have more positive engagement, Aisha He writes.
- payday: Crown He writes about Nomba’s recent $30 million fundraiser. This African payment service provider provides businesses with tools to accept payments securely.
Startups and VC
Ann Lai, general partner at Bullpen Capital, says she was fired from the company, Natasha M reports. The investor described the termination experience as “discriminatory and vindictive” in a LinkedIn post published Monday. Lay helped raise Bullpen Capital’s latest $145 million fund, the first fund in which she has an equal partner.
Today on Found, the TechCrunch blog that gets the stories behind the startups, the team talks with Stefan Bauer about how Marker Learning lowered the cost of learning disability assessments by conducting them remotely, and how it’s successfully worked with school districts to help they test the required number of students, and the potential for Marker Learning to be used in the prison system to assess people who are incarcerated and provide them with the tools to learn in a way that best suits their abilities.
And we have a gripe or two for you:
How to manage board meetings at an early stage efficiently and effectively
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Many CEOs see preparing boardroom floors as an unpleasant chore, but done right, it’s an opportunity for founders to hone their storytelling skills, engage their team leaders, and generate more value from investor relations.
Amy Cheetham, partner at Costanoa Ventures, shared 11 panel slides with TC+ that show effective ways to convey accomplishments, detailing product lines, hiring, team growth, and other key priorities.
You write: “The slides in this article are not intended to be a full tablet deck.” “They are examples of real board slides in early stages seed companies and first stage companies that have done a great job of informing their boards and driving constructive discussions.”
Three more from the TC+ team:
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You know what people hate more than losing things? Buying a device to track things only to have it become part of something insecure. pleasant He writes that Apple and Google have teamed up to create some standard safety measures for these Bluetooth devices to limit unwanted tracking.
Speaking of companies coming together, Box is partnering with OpenAI to bring some generative AI tools across its document management platform. Ron he has more.
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