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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

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Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews.

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[Wefox in Forbes] Lessons Learned From Studying The Herd Mentality Of Venture Capitalists

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Venture Capitalists (VCs) are often regarded as the architects of innovation, providing the capital that fuels the growth of groundbreaking startups. Yet, the herd mentality in this high-stakes industry is becoming more and more pronounced, leading to potentially precarious situations. As AI dominates the current debate, is it time for a much-needed reevaluation?

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Apple devices spoofed, Musk eggs on Zuckerberg and Better.com goes public

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Welcome, friends, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the major events in tech over the past few days. Haven’t had your eyes glued to the headlines? Not to worry. That’s our job, and we’ve compiled them in the nifty little digest that is WiR. In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover a $70 device that can spoof an Apple device, hackers stealing Americans’ health data from an IBM system, and Elon Musk pledging to fight Mark Zuckerber

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Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’

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For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and obtain the data within. And the company has been keen on keeping the use of its technology “hush hush.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Deal Dive: Forecasting rain on DTC’s Parade

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You don’t need me to tell you that startups haven’t been doing great since the funding slowdown and valuation reset started back in 2022. But while some companies will be able to survive on cash reserves or be propped up on inside funding, others will be forced to either liquidate or exit under less-than-ideal circumstances. Such is the case with Parade, which earlier this week was acquired by Ariela & Associates International , a more prominent player in the intimates space.

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How Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line

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Earlier this week, the New York Times shone a light on some of the desperation that founders are experiencing as they try and fail to secure compute power for their nascent artificial intelligence startups, thanks to the big companies (and even rich nations ) racing to snatch them up. One founder reportedly said of the graphics processing units, or GPUs, that he needs for his company: “ I think about [them] as a rare earth metal at this point.” According to that Times piece, founders are t