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Grammarly built its reputation on being a tool for checking spelling, grammar, and writing tips in English. The company is now expanding the scope of these features to support five more languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian. The company said it will now suggest paragraph-level rewrites for tone, style, and flow for the new languages. Users writing in any of these five languages, as well as English, will also be able to translate text in-line in 19 languages. The multilingual writing feature is available for all free and paid users. IMAGE CREDITS:GRAMMARLY “Our customers have been asking for multilingual…

Leading AI labs like OpenAI and Google DeepMind cut ties with Scale AI after Meta invested $14 billion in the data vendor and hired its CEO. But AI labs still need data — leaving an opening for other startups that can supply it. The key players and factors in the AI data market are changing. Lately, it seems like Mercor — an AI hiring platform that sells data services to AI labs — may be one of the biggest benefactors of this shift. Today on Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and I (Max Zeff) dive deeper into how the AI…

California’s state senate gave final approval early on Saturday morning to a major AI safety bill setting new transparency requirements on large companies. As described by its author, state senator Scott Wiener, SB 53 “requires large AI labs to be transparent about their safety protocols, creates whistleblower protections for [employees] at AI labs & creates a public cloud to expand compute access (CalCompute).” The bill now goes to California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign or veto. He has not commented publicly on SB 53, but last year, he vetoed a more expansive safety bill also authored by Wiener, while signing…

For decades, engineers designing space structures have been constrained by the rocket fairing: Only hardware that can be folded up to fit inside can go to orbit. This makes in-space assembly time intensive and expensive. The International Space Station, the largest single object humanity has built in space, was assembled over dozens of launches and cost over $100 billion. And, of course, there is no way to modify or alter the structure once it has been assembled. Rendezvous Robotics wants to change that. “If you’re designing a space mission and trying to get a capability to space, you’re…

Zoox robotaxis — custom-built all-electric and autonomous vehicles that operate without a steering wheel or pedals — can now be hailed by the public in Las Vegas. But this isn’t a commercial service just yet. For now, the Zoox robotaxi service currently offer rides for free. The Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company, which launched the free service on Wednesday, has been chugging toward this milestone for years now. The company spent six years developing its technology before unveiling its purpose-built, electric, autonomous robotaxis. Zoox then began testing its cube-like vehicles on public streets in Las Vegas in 2023. Initially, the test area was…

As a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, you may be eligible to sponsor your dependent child(ren) for permanent residence. This article will cover the ins and outs of sponsoring a dependent child, including who is eligible to sponsor and be sponsored, the undertaking commitment, and how to apply. Who is eligible to sponsor To apply to sponsor your child, you must meet the following eligibility criteria: Be at least 18 years of age. Be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or registered Indian. *Live, or plan to live, in Canada once your child becomes a permanent resident. **Meet the minimum annual…

 During the 1972 election campaign, federal NDP leader David Lewis published a book that condemned tax breaks, subsidies and other financial support that governments give big businesses. The book was titled “Louder Voices: The Corporate Welfare Bums.” For half a century afterward Canadians distrusted what Lewis called corporate welfare. In 1991 in a poll conducted by the Angus Reid Group, just 27 per cent thought governments “should provide incentives and subsidies to help Canadian businesses become more competitive internationally.” In 2004 in a survey conducted by the Vector Poll, only 39 per cent agreed governments should help industries that “the…

 It seems to be unsolvable. One of the most pressing issues for most Canadians is the cost of housing. Rents and house prices have skyrocketed in recent years. Few young families can afford to buy a home, while renovictions and rental costs have put many others in jeopardy. Despite what Pierre Poilievre says, this crisis is not unique to Canada. It exists across the G20 countries as speculation and commodification of housing reaches historic new levels. There are answers to this crisis, but they require a serious commitment to two things that have been out of favour for decades –…

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI laid off 500 team members on Friday night, according to internal messages viewed by Business Insider. These emails reportedly announce an immediate “strategic pivot,” with the company deciding to  “accelerate the expansion and prioritization of our specialist AI tutors, while scaling back our focus on general AI tutor roles.” “As part of this shift in focus, we no longer need most generalist AI tutor positions and your employment with xAI will conclude,” xAI reportedly wrote. According to Business Insider, these cuts represent about one-third of xAI’s 1,500-person data annotation team — the team that works…

President Donald Trump made countering immigration one of his flagship issues during last year’s presidential campaign, promising an unprecedented number of deportations. In his first eight months in office, that promise turned into around 350,000 deportations, a figure that includes deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (around 200,000), Customs and Border Protection (more than 132,000), and almost 18,000 self-deportations, according to CNN. ICE has taken center stage in Trump’s mass deportation campaign, raiding homes, workplaces, and public parks in search of undocumented immigrants. To aid its efforts, the ICE has at its disposal several technologies capable of identifying…