Fantuan acquires Chowbus’ food delivery business
With the acquisition comes a partnership between Fantuan and Chowbus that will meld each of their strengths with local Asian restaurants.
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This Startup Built the Future of Fast Food – Now It’s Scaling Nationwide
Miso Robotics has officially entered the commercial era, and investors have a new window to join before scale takes off.
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TextQL aims to add AI-powered intelligence on top of business data
Mark Hay and Ethan Ding want to make every corporate decision a data-driven one. Ambitious? For certain. But the two engineers, who met a few years ago during the pandemic, are nothing if not optimistic. Hay and Ding are the co-founders of TextQL, a platform that connects a company’s existing data stack to large language […]
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Arcee is a secure, enterprise-focused platform for building GenAI
While working at Hugging Face, engineers Mark McQuade and Brian Benedict ran into challenges helping enterprise customers adopt GenAI. Some companies didn’t want to use closed-source AI APIs due to the perceived lack of transparency — but also resisted open source models over security concerns. “We came to realize that the primary challenge was overcoming […]
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Elo Life Systems grabs another $20.5M to get its monk fruit sweetener to market
Elo Life is focused on a number of technologies from developing plant-based sweeteners to crop protection.
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Google announces new AI-powered features for education
Google announced a bunch of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part of the Bett ed-tech event in the UK. AI-powered features Google already allows teachers to add questions to a YouTube video as part of its Classroom assignment. The company said that soon, AI […]
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EU wants to upgrade its supercomputers to support generative AI startups
European Union lawmakers scrambling for the bloc to be a contender in the generative AI race are presenting a package of support measures aimed at charging up homegrown AI startups and scale ups. Artificial intelligence technologies — and especially generative AI models which are trained on very large data-sets and have capabilities such as being […]
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Forget Everything You’ve Heard About Multitasking. Here’s How to Juggle a Busy Day and Still Make Time for Meaningful Work
Once celebrated, but now increasingly regarded as a bane to productivity, multitasking can actually yield considerable benefits — if it’s designed around your unique needs, strengths and creative schedule.
He Had $2,000 and No Idea How to Run a Business. Here’s How He Turned That Into Two Thriving Barber Shops.
On this episode of “America’s Favorite Mom and Pop Shops,” learn small business success secrets from Jason Bunce, owner of Skull & Combs.
Spotify teases in-app purchases for EU iPhone users ahead of incoming DMA regulation
Spotify is gearing up to test Apple’s response to new European regulations designed to prevent so-called digital “gatekeepers” from engaging in anticompetitive practices. The music-streaming giant has shared a bunch of mockups to illustrate what its iPhone and iPad app could soon look like, including information about pricing, subscription offers and in-app payments for iOS […]
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Surprise Reason Behind Stock Breakout?
Why is the S&P 500 (SPY) making new highs? And what is the outlook for stocks coming into the quite important 1/31 Fed meeting? Investment pro Steve Reitmeister shares his…