Bret Taylor’s new company makes some bold claims

Good afternoon, and welcome to TechCrunch PM. Many of today’s top stories include our favorite subject — artificial intelligence. You’ll read about what former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor has been up to, how your Otter summaries will get better and which chatbot will help you negotiate with debt collectors.

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Chat, Sierra style: Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor has a brand-new bag — a conversational AI company called Sierra. We know you’re thinking, “That’s just a customer service bot.” However, Sierra claims it’s so much more.

Chat, Nvidia style: Chat with RTX is Nvidia’s new tool for users to customize a generative AI model, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, by connecting it to documents, files and notes that it can then query. There are some caveats . . .

Chat, Cambio style: Building better credit habits takes time, and while you’re doing that, you may have to talk to a few debt collectors. Cambio, a fintech startup, has your back on both accounts. It offers tools on getting out of debt, as well as how to resolve issues with debt collectors.

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Worker’s little helpers: So many tools out there to help with work’s little problems. First, you can ask Otter to provide you with the key takeaway from your meeting, among other things.

Next, small businesses don’t often start out with someone who is knowledgeable in finance. Until you get there, FlowFi taps into your business’ accounts and presents the most important metrics to you in a way you understand and can work with.

Then get your questions answered with Mindy, an email-based AI assistant that will search the internet and then present the information to your inbox.

Don’t just update, Seal: Seal Security came out of stealth with a seed round to not only alert when a vulnerability is discovered, but also to patch it.

Save for later: Memorizer is a fun app that tracks the movies you watch and books you read so you can either catch up with them later or find new things.

Exposed!: Glow, a fertility tracker, fixed a leaky API that was making certain personal information known for about 25 million users.

Adobe add-on for TikTok: TikTok’s AI-powered Creative Assistant is now available directly within Adobe Express. This will help businesses and creators reduce the time it takes to make and market content across the two platforms.

Forget-me-nots: ChatGPT will now either remember or forget things you tell it to.

Flipboard on the fediverse: Flipboard followed through with its promise to integrate with the fediverse, and now you can find over 1,000 of its social magazines on Mastodon and other sites.

It’s good to be Phantom: Brandon Millman, co-founder and CEO of Phantom, credits Solana-focused airdrops for the recent success of the crypto wallet.

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