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I have argued for a long time that VCs getting excited about climate change is scary and that a startup’s goal is to cease to exist.…
Youth rideshare startup HopSkipDrive passed two major new California emissions standards in 2023, an achievement the company believes will bolster its case for relying more on…
Rasa, an enterprise-focused programming platform for conversational GenAI, raises $30 million
It’s no fun as a customer to have an interaction with a bot when it’s clearly a bot you’re dealing with. Rasa is a startup that…
Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest text-to-speech model to date, which they claim exhibits “emergent” properties that improve its ability to naturally speak even complex…
As Threads Undermines Politics, Bluesky CEO Shows Custom Feeds and User Choices on Social Media
Meta is in hot water after announcing plans to remove politics from its recommendations across Instagram and Threads, its new Twitter-like app for text-based posts. That…
Before the world became fixated on artificial intelligence, thanks to advances in genetic artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies were the darling of many investors. So when some venture…
How a French health insurance unicorn plans to harness artificial intelligence to reach profitability
Alan’s meteoric rise in the French tech ecosystem it was both figurative and literal. A few years ago, the startup’s office was confined to one floor…
There is no such thing as a future-proof career. This is something I consider almost every time I write about advances in genetic artificial intelligence. Is…
British utility Southern Water says hackers stole personal data of hundreds of thousands of customers
UK-based water company Southern Water has confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of up to 470,000 customers in a recent data breach. Southern Water, which…
Immersion, a company specializing in haptic feedback technology, has settled a lawsuit with Meta over the use of the latest haptic feedback in its Quest VR…