Toyota is doubling down on Joby Aviation with a $500 million investment into the California-based company that’s developing electric air taxis. Toyota’s total investment in Joby, which includes a $394 million capital injection back in 2020, is now $894 million. The funds will be used to help Joby complete the lengthy Type 2 certification process […]
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The offices of plant-based protein startup Heura are tucked away down a narrow street a short distance from one of Barcelona’s main tourist draws. But the team of entrepreneurs and food scientists won’t be remixing their protein cocktails in close proximity to La Sagrada Família for much longer — they’re moving to new, larger digs […]
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On Wednesday the European Union requested more information from Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about their respective content recommendation algorithms under the bloc’s online governance rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA). In a press release the Commission said it’s sent requests for information (RFI) to the three social media platforms asking them for more details about […]
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The past few years have seen the topic of women’s health thrown into the sociopolitical spotlight.
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Ameba takes the unstructured data in a retailer’s supply chain systems, sprinkles in some generative AI, and makes the whole thing more efficient.
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On Tuesday evening local time, Motier Ventures, an early stage tech investment firm based in Paris, unveiled a startup hub called La Maison. This relatively new investor in the French tech ecosystem is the family office of the Houzé family — the owners of upmarket fashion retailer the Galeries Lafayette Group. As the Galeries Lafayette […]
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Peak XV, the largest India and Southeast Asia-focused venture firm, is reducing the size of some of its funds and lowering fees as it seeks to become “deeply aligned” with its limited partners. The firm, which raised $2.85 billion funds in mid-2022, informed its backers on Tuesday evening that it would cut $465 million from […]
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Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, can now see who follows them and likes their posts from other fediverse servers, such as Mastodon and Pixelfed. The company said users will now have up to 15 minutes to make […]
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Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic. In a series of posts on X, Kingma revealed that he’ll be working mostly remotely, from the Netherlands (where he’s based), but didn’t say which Anthropic org he’ll be joining — or leading. Reached for comment, an Anthropic spokesperson […]
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It’s been a tumultuous week for OpenAI, full of executive departures and major fundraising developments, but the startup is back at it, trying to convince developers to build tools with its AI models at its 2024 DevDay. The company announced several new tools Tuesday, including a public beta of its “Realtime API”, for building apps […]
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The new capability, rolling out Tuesday, will help advertisers who want to enhance their Pinterest Product Pins (ads) and attract more clicks, according to Pinterest.
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Amsterdam-based Brineworks, a company specializing in seawater electrolysis technology, says its innovative method is expected to cost under $100 per ton of CO2 at scale.
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Monorepos are becoming an increasingly popular way to manage source code, but they require a slightly different toolset. Google developed its own internal build and test tool on top of its monorepo and then, in 2015, open sourced it as Bazel. Nine years on, there is a thriving ecosystem of Bazel-adjacent startups like NX and […]
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Sometimes, a demo is all you need to understand a product. And that’s the case with Runware. If you head over to Runware’s website, enter a prompt and hit enter to generate an image, you’ll be surprised by how quickly Runware generates the image for you — it takes less than a second. Runware is […]
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Where most startups aim to recreate the superheated, super-pressurized conditions inside of a star, Acceleron takes a different approach.
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