With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.
Redlining: how do racially-biased financial practices affect health?
[[{“value”:” Redlining: how do racially-biased financial practices affect health? Published: In the 1930s, the US government began ‘redlining’ – demarcating poor neighbourhoods, often home to Black and immigrant populations, as risky for financial investment. Dr Andrea Richardson from the RAND Corporation in the US is investigating how that decision has led to cascading impacts and inequities to this day –…
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil’s new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
If you’re building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.