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Employers, Ease Up: Bereave Urges Improved Sensitivity Towards Death

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If death and taxes are inevitable, why are companies so prepared for taxes, but not for death? In the immediate aftermath of Linder’s loss, founding a company would have been a long shot. So Bereave built a B2B product to sell to employers, which they can offer their employees in times of need. The platform catalogs resources for people experiencing loss, walking them through the steps of closing out a loved one’s affairs. Tall Poppy, a company that offers digital safety guidance for employees navigating online harassment and hacks, also uses step-by-step checklists.

OnePlus Creates Its Own Version of Google’s Magic Eraser

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Take, for example, the company’s latest foray into mobile artificial intelligence, the AI Eraser. Nope, OnePlus went ahead and built its own version in a bid to show the world that it has AI ambitions of its own. From the sound of its press material, the company went and built this thing ground-up, starting with its own first-party large language models. “AI Eraser is the result of a substantial R&D investment from OnePlus,” the company notes in its press material. AI is rolling out to OnePlus devices this month, starting with OnePlus 12, OnePlus 12R, OnePlus 11, OnePlus Open and OnePlus Nord CE 4.

Inngest Secures $6.1M in Funds for Workflow Engine Expansion

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As Inngest founders Tony Holdstock-Brown (CEO) and Dan Farrelly (CTO) told me, the team added new flow control features, for example, which now make it easier to manage concurrency down to the user level. Inngest will handle the queues and database state for these functions and the developers don’t have to do anything special to make that work. Combining that with the new flow control features, Inngest argues, is unlocking a lot of new capabilities for users. “The durability and the reliability, which we have, combined with the flow control aspect allows you to build into this reliability layer. The Inngest team also expanded its language support from only offering a TypeScript SDK to also offering Python and Go SDKs — and users can migrate between them as needed without having to shut down their functions.

Semron Seeks to Substitute ‘Memcapacitors’ for Chip Transistors

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The electric field approach minimizes the movement of electrons at the chip level, reducing energy usage — and heat. TOPS/W is a bit of a vague metric, but the takeaway is that memcapacitors can lead to dramatic energy consumption reductions while training AI models. Now, it’s early days for Semron, which Kirschen says is in the “pre-product” stage and has “negligible” revenue to show for it. EnCharge, like Semron, is designing computer chips that use capacitors rather than transistors, but using a different substrate architecture. Semron will be a key element in solving this problem by providing a revolutionary new chip that is inherently specialized on computing AI models.

CEO: Deep-Pocketed Competitors Force Jumia to Discontinue Food Delivery

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Last week, pan-African e-commerce platform Jumia said it was discontinuing its food delivery service, Jumia Food. However, of all the streamlining efforts, its exit from the food delivery business across seven markets was the most unexpected. This trend might persist with its exit from the food delivery business. Jumia’s statement last week said that the company’s food delivery business wasn’t suitable to its market’s operating environment and macroeconomic conditions. Also, how fast will the company grow the physical goods business to make up for this food delivery exit?