Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

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Today everybody's doing AI code review. Here's how Greptile's viewpoint is differentiated - independence, autonomy, and feedback loops.

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Y Combinator has revised its standard deal terms to exclude Canada as a permitted site of investment, implying that Canadian startups aspiring to join will have to incorporate elsewhere.

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