The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.
The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the US in April 2024, the day before…
TopTechTrends
Stop Optimizing for Keywords, and Start Answering Questions. That’s How You Become the Business Buyers Choose.
Answer Engine Optimization is not SEO with a new name. It is the difference between ranking for a phrase and being the answer your buyer actually receives.
How AI Is Helping Entrepreneurs Expand Their Video Marketing Without Expanding Their Budget or Bandwidth
A practitioner’s look at how AI video is reshaping production economics, helping entrepreneurs and growing teams move faster, test more ideas and get more value from every campaign.
This Popular Department Store Lost Its Edge. Now It’s Betting Big on a Comeback.
Stores grew cluttered and inconsistent as this department store lost its way.
Companies Are Facing Legal Battles For Misusing AI — Here’s How to Avoid Being One of Them
Companies are racing to adopt AI, but many can’t explain how it’s governed, who’s accountable or what happens when it causes harm.
Business Growth Has 5 Stages — Most Founders Never Reach The Last 2. Here’s Why (and What to Do About It).
Growth runs through five stages. Most founders fund the first and skip the two that produce revenue.
Realta Fusion generates electricity directly from a fusion reaction, an apparent first
Realta Fusion showed it could generate electricity from a fusion reaction, no steam turbine required.
Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite
Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.
Clicks shows off its BlackBerry-inspired phone in a new hands-on video
A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that runs modern apps.
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.