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Afloat, a gift delivery app that lets you shop from local stores and have gifts delivered to a loved one on the same day, is now available across the U.S. The…
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Meta changes its label from ‘Made with AI’ to ‘AI info’ to indicate use of AI in photos
After Meta started tagging photos with a “Made with AI” label in May, photographers complained that the social networking company had been applying labels to real photos where they had…
Investment app Robinhood is adding more AI features for investors with its acquisition of AI-powered research platform Pluto Capital, Inc., announced on Monday. The company says that Pluto will allow…
Vaire Computing raises $4.5M for ‘reversible computing’ moonshot which could drastically reduce energy needs
Vaire Computing, based in London and Seattle, is betting that chips that can do reversible computing are going to be the way forward for the world.
Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules, Commission finds
The EC has found that Meta’s “pay or consent” offer to Facebook and Instagram users in Europe does not comply with the bloc’s DMA.
Japan’s SmartHR raises $140M Series E as strong demand for HR tech boosts its ARR to $100M
The round was led by KKR and Teachers’ Ventures Growth, an investment arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
RoboGrocery combines computer vision with a soft robotic gripper to bag a wide range of different items.
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Identity.vc is bringing capital and community to Europe’s LGBTQ+ venture ecosystem
Identity.vc writes checks that range from €250,000 to €1.5 million into companies from the pre-seed to Series A stages.
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Robot cats, dogs and birds are being deployed amid an ‘epidemic of loneliness’
In the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology began work on what would become Paro. More than 30 years after its development, the doe-eyed seal pup remains the best-known example of a therapeutic robot for older adults. In 2011, the robot reached…
Apple’s AI plans go beyond the previously announced Apple Intelligence launches on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is also working to bring these…
ServiceNow’s generative AI solutions are taking advantage of the data on its own platform
One of the earlier SaaS adherents to generative AI has been ServiceNow, which has been able to take advantage of the data in its own platform to help build more…
India’s top AI startups include those building LLMs and setting up the stage for AGI as well as bringing AI to cooking and serving farmers.
Defense tech and ‘resilience’ get global funding sources: Here are some top funders
We live in a very different world since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. With global military expenditure reaching $2.4 trillion last…
Two separate studies investigated how well Google’s Gemini models and others make sense out of an enormous amount of data.
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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1B stolen records and rising
Some of the largest, most damaging breaches of 2024 already account for over a billion stolen records.
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SAP, and Oracle, and IBM, oh my! ‘Cloud and AI’ drive legacy software firms to record valuations
There’s something of a trend around legacy software firms and their soaring valuations: Companies founded in dinosaur times are on a tear, evidenced this week with SAP‘s shares topping $200 for the first time. Founded in 1972, SAP’s valuation currently sits at an all-time high of $234 billion. The Germany-based…
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