Kodiak Robotics has partnered with driverless car-sharing startup Vap to bring a remote-driving system into its self-driving trucks operation.
New space startup Lux Aeterna wants to make satellites reusable
Lux Aeterna, a Denver-based startup, is working on a reusable satellite that has attracted $4 million in pre-seeding funding from investors.
Julie Bornstein’s Daydream is releasing an AI-powered chatbot for fashion-related shopping
Ecommerce veteran Julie Bornstein’s startup Daydream is releasing its AI-powered chatbot for shopping with a focus on fashion.
How can plants clean contaminated soils?
[[{“value”:” How can plants clean contaminated soils? Published: Soil contamination is a global issue. Human activities cause toxic chemicals, heavy metals and salts to seep into soils, damaging natural ecosystems and reducing the productivity of agricultural land. Cleaning contaminated soils is not easy, but Professor Barbara Zeeb, an environmental scientist at the Royal Military College of Canada, believes plants can…
How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud AI voice category
Synthflow AI was founded in 2023 and has amassed more than 1,000 customers and handled more than 45 million calls.
India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation
GoKwik, an Indian startup that offers a suite of integrated e-commerce products, has raised a small round of $13 million, which it calls a “growth” round, that has boosted its valuation to $450 million pre-money. While the new funding round, led by RTP Global, is 63% smaller than its Series B of $35 million, announced […]
New data highlights the race to build more empathetic language models
Measuring AI progress has usually meant testing scientific knowledge or logical reasoning – but while the major benchmarks still focus on left-brain logic skills, there’s been a quiet push within AI companies to make models more emotionally intelligent. As foundation models compete on soft measures like user preference and “feeling the AGI,” having a good […]
Facebook Group admins complain of mass bans; Meta says it’s fixing the problem
After a wave of mass bans affecting Instagram and Facebook users alike, Meta users are now complaining that Facebook Groups are also being impacted by mass suspensions. According to individual complaints and organized efforts on sites like Reddit to share information, the bans have affected thousands of groups both in the U.S. and abroad and […]
In just 4 months, AI medical scribe Abridge doubles valuation to $5.3B
Abridge nabbed $300 million Series E led by a16z, months after it closed its previous $250M fundraise.
The All-In Podcast’s $1,200 tequila has already sold out
The VCs, pod bros, and self proclaimed “besties” of the All-In podcast launched their own tequila brand on Saturday night and it promptly sold out.