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Food VC Peakbridge has new $187M fund to transform future of food, like lab-made cocoa
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Accion’s new $152.5M fund will back financial institutions serving small businesses globally
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Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program
[[{“value”:” Meta’s newest social network, Threads, is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook’s network for a few months. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Looking Glass launches new 3D displays
[[{“value”:” Looking Glass makes trippy-looking mixed-reality screens that make things look 3D without the need of special glasses. Today, it launches a pair of new displays, including a 16-inch mode that runs $4,000. There’s also a 32-inch display, with a ‘if you have to ask how much it costs you can’t afford it’ price tag. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs
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Intuitive Machines wants to help NASA return samples from Mars
[[{“value”:” Intuitive Machines made history when it became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon, so it makes sense to adapt that tech for Mars. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Google adds ‘Web’ search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out
[[{“value”:” As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the new “Web” filter that appears at the top of the results page, users will be able to filter for text links the way they can […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Blue Origin to resume crewed New Shepard launches on May 19
[[{“value”:” Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will take a crew to suborbital space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, the company announced on Tuesday. The NS-25 mission will launch from Blue’s launch site in West Texas on May 19. The launch window opens at 8:30 a.m. The six-person crew includes Ed […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
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