Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Announcing True Anomaly, Slingshot Aerospace, and Space Workforce for Tomorrow at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

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As government and defense sectors increasingly lean on commercial services, opportunities for startups in dual-use technology have never been more promising. Yet, for young, agile companies, the challenge of entering such a highly regulated and traditional landscape is significant. How can emerging businesses compete with established primes for contracts and attention? And how can investors […]

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X is cleared to go back online in Brazil

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Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday that Elon Musk’s X could return online in the country, marking the end to a months-long battle between the social media platform and Brazilian officials. Addressing the reasons that X was banned in the first place, Musk agreed to take down some user accounts and appoint a legal representative […]

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Former Google Maps engineers get Sequioa backing to build out an AI-powered collboration board

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When you talk to a chatbot like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, your responses are largely linear. You often have to ask follow-up questions to get more information. For instance, when you are planning a trip, you might first ask the chatbot about the place and follow it up with questions on meal planning, activities, tips […]

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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

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A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

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Announcing True Anomaly, Slingshot Aerospace, and Space Workforce 2030 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

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Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield win Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in foundational AI

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024. Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield are jointly sharing the prestigious award for their work on artificial neural networks starting back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. More specifically, Hinton and Hopfield were given the award for “foundational discoveries and inventions […]

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Lithios takes inspiration from battery manufacturing to mine lithium from salty water

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Lithios is part of a fresh crop of startups is trying to meet the booming demand for lithium by extracting it from subsurface brines.

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Uber to launch OpenAI-powered AI assistant to answer driver EV questions

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Uber is continuing its push to bring more electric vehicles onto the ride-hail and delivery platform, and it thinks giving drivers a chatbot to answer all their EV questions will help. Starting early 2025, Uber will launch an AI assistant for drivers in the U.S. powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o. At launch, the assistant will only answer […]

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Open source BI platform Lightdash gets Accel’s backing to bring AI to business intelligence

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Lightdash, a business intelligence (BI) platform and open source alternative to Google’s Looker, is lifting the lid on a new product that allows companies to train “AI analysts” specific to individual teams’ use-cases, enabling anyone in a company to query aggregate business data. To help, the 4-year-old startup also on Tuesday announced that it has […]

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Revyze, a ‘TikTok for education’ startup, draws on Duolingo to add bite-sized learning too

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Middle and high schoolers are both the easiest and most difficult audience. If you’re developing a neat little video game, chances are they’re willing to download it right away. But if, like the team behind Revyze, you’re working on a learning app, good luck pitching them. And yet, the French startup has defied the odds […]

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French biotech Generare speeds up hunt for new drugs by cloning natural molecules

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French biotech startup Generare has closed a €5 million seed round (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates) to step up development of what it touts as a highly scalable approach to identifying promising compounds for drug discovery that already exist in nature. It’s focused on sifting for molecules that are produced by microorganisms but […]

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Chainalysis CEO Michael Gronager steps down in move described as temporary

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Michael Gronager, co-founder and CEO of Chainalysis, has taken a personal leave of absence from the company. The blockchain analysis outfit isn’t sharing why but says the development is temporary. According to The Block, which first reported the news, Chainalysis President and COO Sari Granat, who joined the outfit in 2022, is acting as interim […]

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General Catalyst is working on a ‘continuation’ fund worth up to $1B, sources say

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General Catalyst, one of Silicon Valley’s largest capital firms, is gearing up to launch what’s known as a “continuation fund” worth between $800 million and $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the plans. A continuation fund consists of a portion of stakes that the VC firm has in portfolio companies. With around $25 […]

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VC firm NFX laid off 4 employees and plans to hire more investors

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Venture capital firm NFX laid off four employees in September as the firm looks to “rebalance” its resources from its software and product teams to its investing team, general partner Pete Flint told TechCrunch. The layoffs included one product leader and three engineers, Flint said. About a week ago, Amy Lin, chief product officer since […]

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VESSL AI secures $12M for its MLOps platform that aims to cut GPU costs by up to 80%

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South Korean MLOps platform VESSL AI is trying to carve out a niche for itself by focusing on optimizing for GPU expenses using hybrid infrastructure.

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