5 questions investors should be asking inception-stage generative AI founders
As we meet with many AI-native founders, here are the top five pieces of company-building advice we’re sharing with them.
The Download: offshore rocket launches, and how DOGE plans to use AI
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 dream of offshore rocket launches is finally blasting off Want to send something to space? Get in line. The demand for rides off Earth is skyrocketing, with launches more than doubling over…
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Tinder tests AI photo selection feature to help users build profiles
Tinder is currently testing an AI photo selection feature that looks at a user’s photo album and selects the five that best represents them for their dating profile, parent company Match Group revealed during its earnings call today. “AI has really inspired our product people across the entire company to really think about ways that […]
Cohart’s art marketplace makes buying and selling accessible for any kind of art lover
The platform offers tools and infrastructure so that visual artists can be discovered and sell their art.
Hopin, the struggling virtual conference unicorn, sells events and engagement units to RingCentral
Hopin, the virtual events startup that saw its star (and valuation) rise quickly during the Covid-19 pandemic, is most definitely coming down to earth. Today the company announced that it has sold its Events and Session business units to RingCentral for an undisclosed sum. Events is Hopin’s event management platform for planning and producing virtual […]
Google pulls its AI Test Kitchen app from Play Store and App Store
Google has pulled its AI Test Kitchen app from the Play Store and the App Store to focus solely on the web platform. The company launched the AI Test Kitchen experience last year to let users interact with projects powered by different AI models such as LaMDA 2. The first set of experiments included the […]
The Download: counting China’s mpox cases, and Meta has blocked news in Canada
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. Decoding the data of the Chinese mpox outbreak Almost exactly a year after the World Health Organization declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) a public health emergency, the hot spot for the outbreak…
Decoding the data of the Chinese mpox outbreak
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Almost exactly a year after the World Health Organization declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) a public health emergency, the hot spot for the outbreak has quietly moved from the US…
Kenya suspends Worldcoin scans over security, privacy and financial concerns
Kenya was one of the first countries to launch sign-ups for Worldcoin — the controversial startup that aims to create a new “human identity and financial network” through eye scans and its own cryptocurrency — and as of this week, it was one of the biggest markets for take-up. Now, it could be one of […]
As spend management space heats up, Brex and Rho turn to AI startups to help power new products
The competition in the spend management space continues to heat up. Brex and Rho today each announced AI-powered/enabled accounts payables offerings. Their announcements coincidentally came out the same day competitor Ramp announced it had expanded into procurement — further evidence that the companies in the space are clamoring to not only meet customer demand but […]
Privateer wants to create a “data ride-sharing economy” for space
Privateer Space is launching a new module for satellite operators called Pono, which the company says will help make space data available at scale and at a far lower cost than it is today. The first Pono prototype will launch on a D-Orbit space tug in late 2023. Based on the data it receives from […]