Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform’s AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.
YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.
Amazon taps Sweden’s Einride for its electric big rigs
The agreement comes just as Einride is finalizing a merger with blank-check company Legato Merger Corp. to go public.
Revolut eyes valuation of up to $200B in eventual IPO
Fintech giant Revolut, which secured a full banking license in the U.K. in March after years of waiting, was most recently valued at $75 billion in a secondary share sale.
What’s the key to better vegan cheese? Microbreweries, one startup says
AuX Labs says it has found a better way to make vegan cheese that tastes and feels like the real thing — and costs the same.
GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists
AI music startup GRAI says fans want to remix tracks, not generate songs from scratch.
Cash App is targeting a new kind of customer: 6-12 year olds
Tech companies are constantly on the hunt for new customers, and Cash App, the fintech company owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, believes it has found a promising new demographic: children. The company, which already offers financial services to teens, said this week that it is expanding its youth-focused services in an effort to build a […]
How STEM Next and Apple Are Scaling Technology Education in Afterschool
[[{“value”:” On a recent spring afternoon at the Seed Sowers & Storytellers afterschool program in Rochester, New York, Amaya and Ty’Quinn handed their iPad to program leader Qua’Je Lowry to review a video they just recorded. Around them, other groups of elementary school-age kids were busy with other phases of production: recording, reviewing, and shaping their ideas into short clips. …
Yelp’s updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation
Yelp said that users can ask questions about a restaurant and place an order or book a table in one conversation
Blue Energy raises $380M to build grid-scale nuclear reactors in shipyards
By building reactors in shipyards, Blue Energy says it will tame nuclear power’s cost problems, giving it access to cheaper financing.