February 11, 2025

AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone

We often take the internet for granted. It’s an ocean of information at our fingertips—and it simply works. But this system relies on swarms of “crawlers”—bots that roam the web, visit millions of websites every day, and report what they see. This is how Google powers its search engines, how Amazon sets competitive prices, and…

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NeuBird is building a generative AI solution for complex cloud native environments

April 17, 2024

NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from PortWorx, a cloud native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in 2019 for $370 million. It was their third successful exit.  When they went looking for their next startup challenge last year, they saw an opportunity to combine their cloud native knowledge, especially around IT […]

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Andreessen Horowitz’s $7.2B new funds for a “new era”

April 17, 2024

What is worth $11 billion and wants to go to Mars to collect rocks? NASA’s mission to Mars to collect rocks that was expected to cost $11 billion and take ages. So, the U.S. space agency is throwing the doors open to get more input, and that means that startups are looking at an opportunity that […]

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Inversion Space will test its space-based delivery tech in October

April 17, 2024

Inversion Space is aptly named. The three-year-old startup’s primary concern is not getting things to space, but bringing them back — transforming the ultimate high ground into “a transportation layer for Earth.” The company’s plan — ultra-fast, on-demand deliveries to anywhere on Earth — sounds like pie in the sky, but it’s the sort of […]

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3 Chip Stocks to Hold Amidst Market Risks

April 17, 2024
The semiconductor industry’s long-term growth is fueled by robust demand, particularly across the consumer electronics sector, favorable government policies, and technological advances. Amid market risks, it could be ideal to…

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric

April 17, 2024

Atlas lies motionless in a prone position atop interlocking gym mats. The only soundtrack is the whirring of an electric motor. It’s not quiet, exactly, but it’s nothing compared to the hydraulic jerks of its ancestors. As the camera pans around the robot’s back, its legs bend at the knees. It’s a natural movement, at […]

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Fintech startup Mercury, which is under regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking

April 17, 2024

Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2020, is now launching a consumer banking product. Mercury today serves more than 100,000 businesses, many of which are startups, via its B2B practice. The expansion is a natural move for the company and one that has been in the works for a couple of years, according to Immad […]

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EU privacy body adopts view on Meta’s controversial ‘consent or pay’ tactic

April 17, 2024

Incoming guidance by an expert steering body for European Union data protection law could have major implications for Meta’s surveillance advertising business model: Large platforms such as Facebook and Instagram cannot force a “binary” pay or consent choice on users, according to a Politico report Wednesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the decision. […]

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