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Category: Tech
Two ex-McKinsey founders raise $4.1M from Seedcamp to give boards an AI analyst that monitors corporate reputation in real time
Paris-based Omniscient ingests 100,000+ sources, press, social, web, video, audio, internal pipelines, and synthesises them into a two-minute executive briefing. Renault is an early client.
What we can learn from Avocado: The unreleased AI Meta’s model
In the competitive landscape of AI agents, where businesses are closing investment deals everyday to build and expand their AI infrastructure and software, the companies
Europe Pushes for a Gentler Internet for Children
The European Union and national capitals are trying to make social media and algorithms less addictive and safer, especially for children.
Worried About A.I. Taking Your Job? That’s Not Very ‘Agentic’ of You.
Today’s spin on the idea of personal agency is convenient for tech C.E.O.s, who boast that their models work just fine without us.
Covalo raises €3.5M to become the shared data infrastructure for an industry where 80% of products will need reformulating by 2030
The Zurich platform, which connects 1,500+ ingredient suppliers and 6,000 brands including Givaudan, Symrise, PUIG, and La Prairie, is evolving from a discovery marketplace into
Generare raises €20M to decode the 97% of microbial chemistry
The Paris techbio company screens microbial genomes to find molecules that evolution spent three billion years producing, and claims to have characterised more novel small
A jury just told Meta and YouTube their platforms are defective products. Thousands of lawsuits are waiting.
Mark Lanier, the folksy Texas litigator who doubles as a part-time pastor, held a jar of M&Ms in front of the Los Angeles jury and
Hasbro has been hacked, and the maker of Peppa Pig says recovery could take weeks
Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transformers, Monopoly
Gemini now lets you import chats from competitors
Google has launched new tools for its AI assistant Gemini that make it easier to switch from other chatbots, TechCrunch reports. The feature allows users
Artemis II, NASA’s boldest mission in generations, launches crew to the Moon
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—Three Americans and one Canadian launched into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast on Wednesday, flying the most powerful rocket ridden by humans
Nvidia rolls out its fix for PC gaming’s “compiling shaders” wait times
PC gamers who are tired of waiting for their games to “compile shaders” during some load times may want to dig into the latest beta
SpaceX just filed for the largest IPO in history. The conflicts of interest are staggering.
SpaceX has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares to the public, according to multiple sources familiar with the registration
Legora just hit $100 million in revenue. It took 18 months.
Eighteen months ago, Legora was a Stockholm startup with a handful of law-firm clients and roughly $1 million in annual recurring revenue. On Tuesday, the