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3 Tobacco Stocks to Ignite Gains in December

December 5, 2023
Despite several obstacles, the enduring momentum of the tobacco industry appears stable, buoyed by solid demand and the unveiling of innovative products. Hence, investors could add quality tobacco stocks Imperial…

Kyron Learning secures $14.6M to expand its conversational AI technology

December 5, 2023

Kyron Learning, an AI-based learning startup, announced today its $14.6 million Series A funding round plus a $850,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new capital will further develop the platform’s generative AI capabilities and build out its K-12 math curriculum. Today, the company is opening the platform up to all organizations […]

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Meta and IBM form an AI Alliance, but to what end?

December 5, 2023

Meta, on an open source tear, wants to spread its influence further and wider in the ongoing battle for AI mindshare. This morning, the social network announced that it’s teaming up with IBM, whose audience is decidedly more corporate and enterprise, to launch the AI Alliance, a industry body to support “open innovation” and “open […]

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EnCharge raises $22.6M to commercialize its AI-accerating chips

December 5, 2023

Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry — e.g. Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, AWS and Intel. Its mission at the time sounded a little ambitious — and still does. But to its credit, the startup, EnCharge AI, is alive and […]

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Vancouver’s Fantuan raises $40M to deliver real Chinese food at your doorstep

December 5, 2023

For those who move abroad from China, one thing they miss dearly is the convenience of food delivery apps. Fantuan, a Vancouver-based company, has been working on replicating the experience of Chinese food delivery platforms in the West for the past nine years. Recently, it raised some fresh capital to further advance its goal — […]

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