December 2023

Top robotics names discuss humanoids, generative AI and more

December 22, 2023

Last month, I took an extended break. In a bid to keep my robotics newsletter Actuator (subscribe here) up and running, however, I reached out to some of the biggest names in the industry. I asked people from CMU, UC Berkeley, Meta, NVIDIA, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute the same six questions, covering […]

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EU’s provisional deal on gig worker rights fails to get enough backing from Member States

December 22, 2023

Not so fast on that Christmas present for precarious gig workers in the EU: A political deal announced mid month, which aims to bolster platform workers rights across the European Union by establishing a legal presumption of employment, does not have the necessary qualified majority backing among Member States, it emerged today. In an brief […]

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Arduino exploring India manufacturing to limit counterfeit sales

December 22, 2023

Arduino is considering manufacturing in India. The startup, best known for its open-source microcontroller boards, hopes to restrict the rise of counterfeit boards and cater to the growing demand from India’s youth population. The Italian firm is currently exploring partnerships with electronic manufacturing service (EMS) companies in the South Asian nation to begin its local […]

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Fintech’s biggest hits and misses of 2023

December 22, 2023

As 2023 comes to a close, we’re here to look back at the biggest fintech stories of the year. Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion felt like a fintech story in that a number of startups (Brex, Arc and Mercury, for example) in the space leapt to fill the hole left by its collapse. But it truly […]

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Pitch Deck Teardown: HomeCooks’ $3.2M seed deck

December 22, 2023

Positioning itself as the “Etsy of food,” HomeCooks has raised $3.2 million in seed funding. What did it do right in its crowdfunding campaign slides?

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