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Black Models on ‘The Price is Right’ Share Shocking Experiences
Kathleen Bradley and Claudia Jordan, two of the few Black models working on 'The Price Is Right' is spilling all the sordid details about their time working on the show!
Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)
Brian Gormley / Wall Street Journal:
Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed — Doctronic, which just raised $40 million, links patients to human doctors in virtual visits and has a pilot program that refills prescriptions.
The passwordless future is years away. Here is what businesses should do now
Every year since roughly 2018, the cybersecurity industry has declared that passwords are dying. Passkeys, biometrics, and FIDO2 hardware tokens would replace them. The promise was elegant: no more breached vaults, no more credential stuffing, no more sticky notes on monitors. It has not happened. Not at scale, anyway. A March 2026 report from HYPR, […]
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Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first "multi-silicon inference cloud" for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first “multi-silicon inference cloud” for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A — Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup …
Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more — Sundar Pichai was blindsided by ChatGPT. Soon after being named Google CEO in 2015, he'd declared that the world was entering an AI-first era.