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The first StrictlyVC of the year will be coming to San Francisco before you know it! There are still a few tickets available to join us and our stacked speaker lineup April 30, at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center. On top of the mixing and mingling with the community StrictlyVC is known for, this upcoming event in the heart of SF will be of particular note for AI innovators and founders looking for the latest insights into obtaining funding. Who’s taking the stage You can get a ticket right now, but for those who haven’t been to a StrictlyVC event in the…
PHOENIX (AP) — There was a time in the not-so-distant past that many Major League Baseball teams looked at their college baseball counterparts with a degree of skepticism. There were the metal bats, the shorter schedule and a sense that nothing could replace the seasoning that came with years of grinding through professional baseball’s minor leagues.Not anymore.Thanks to a variety of factors — especially money and technology — the MLB and NCAA versions of baseball have never been more similar. There’s also been more movement between the two versions of the sport in recent years.It’s part of the reason Tony…
Google announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature to users in India. The feature lets users connect their Google accounts, such as Gmail and Google Photos, then ask Gemini questions to get personalized answers. After connecting their services, users could ask something like, “What are my travel plans for Jaipur?” to get information from their emails or photos. The feature can also refer to recent YouTube videos that users have watched to get ideas. The company said that Gemini will identify sources for its answers so you can verify details, if needed. At launch, the Personal Intelligence…
Apple is taking a tough stance on vibe coding apps as the company is blocking updates or removing those apps from the App Store. Affected apps include Replit, Vibecode, and Anything. While Replit and Vibecode’s updates were paused, Anything’s app was removed twice. The company is now looking for new ways, like offering a desktop version of its service, to let users build apps for mobile devices. Anything’s co-founder, Dhruv Amin, said in a conversation with TechCrunch that Apple removed its app on March 26. Since then, the company has been unable to get its app approved, despite a period…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in Congress are trying to overturn the Trump administration’s changes to a popular student loan forgiveness program, with lawmakers saying the changes are political and could leave some borrowers without the relief they were pledged.The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program cancels loans for qualified public service workers after they’ve made a decade’s worth of payments. It has long been open to those who go to work for the government, public schools, fire and police departments, public hospitals and nonprofits. But last fall, President Donald Trump administration’s wrote a new rule that empowered Education Secretary Linda McMahon…
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman had a blunt message for managers leading their company’s AI strategy: Your approach is probably outdated. Loading audio narration… On Monday at the Semafor World Economy Summit 2026 in Washington, DC, Hoffman — now a partner at Greylock — said too many executives are treating AI like a traditional software rollout. Companies are built to test new software with a small team, polish it into a proof of concept, and then scale it across the business.Instead, he said companies should be quickly experimenting with the new tools across every area of the business.”What you want is…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vivienne Hnin, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who will be interning at AI-native startup Utilyst this summer. Her employment and identity have been verified by Business Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I came to Chapel Hill in 2023 as an international student enrolled in pre-med.My country, Burma, was on the travel ban list last year, so I couldn’t go home and had to find a summer job. As a biology major, I didn’t have a lot of…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles schools avoided a strike that would have impacted nearly 400,000 students in Southern California as the school district and the union representing support staff reached a tentative deal early Tuesday.Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union announced on social media that it won a tentative agreement with “major gains” including raises and more hours. The district announced that an agreement in principle had been reached with SEIU Local 99 allowing schools to be open Tuesday and they would work to finalize the details of a tentative agreement.SEIU Local 99 said the tentative deal…
One kind of company is out in the age of AI, says the CEO of Affirm. Loading audio narration… On an episode of the “Sourcery” podcast released on Monday, Max Levchin said that companies without quality software are the most vulnerable to vibe coding disruption.”It’s long overdue to get rid of bad software,” he said.Levchin, the PayPal cofounder who now leads the buy-now, pay-later company Affirm, said that companies that make software without any proprietary data or value-add will be replaced.”The bar for quality of software is going up rapidly,” he said. “It kind of sucks, has a bad interface,…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A former student opened fire at a high school in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people, before killing himself, an official said. The 18-year-old attacker, armed with a shotgun, fired randomly inside a vocational high school in Siverek, Sanliurfa province. He later killed himself with the same shotgun after being “cornered by police,” Gov. Hasan Sildak said.The attack left 10 students, four teachers, a canteen employee and a police officer hurt, Sildak said. While most of them were being treated in Siverek, five of the teachers and students were transferred to a hospital…