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The Download: catching bad content, and farming from space

May 15, 2023
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. Catching bad content in the age of AI Big Tech is surprisingly bad at catching, labeling, and removing harmful content. In theory, new advances in AI should improve our ability to do that.…

UK’s Space Forge debuts new reentry tech for in-space manufacturing satellites

May 15, 2023

Welsh in-space manufacturing startup Space Forge has developed a satellite reentry system to enable rapid recovery and reuse of its in-space manufacturing spacecraft. The new system, which includes a heat shield and a water vehicle designed to soften the spacecraft’s landing, will be incorporated into the company’s in-space manufacturing satellite platform called ForgeStar. As opposed […]

UK’s Space Forge debuts new reentry tech for in-space manufacturing satellites by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Catching bad content in the age of AI

May 15, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. In the last 10 years, Big Tech has become really good at some things: language, prediction, personalization, archiving, text parsing, and data crunching. But it’s…

UK pension startup Smart banks $95M

May 15, 2023

Smart, a London-based startup that helps employers and their employees manage and monitor their pensions, said that it has closed $95 million in Series E funding. It plans to use the capital to expand its international footprint and make acquisitions, it said. Aquiline Capital Partners, a new backer, led the investment, with previous investors Barclays, […]

UK pension startup Smart banks $95M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

M-KOPA snaps up $250M+ debt, equity for its asset financing platform

May 15, 2023

M-KOPA, the asset financing platform that offers underbanked African customers access to “productive assets” and the ability to pay for them via digital micropayments, has secured over $250 million in new funding.  The capital injection includes $55 million in equity and over $200 million in debt, huge sums in both categories that testify to strong […]

M-KOPA snaps up $250M+ debt, equity for its asset financing platform by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Software snafus abound, Nuro makes more cuts and VinFast takes the SPAC road

May 14, 2023

Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Automakers have been struggling with software development for years now. But the stakes are higher than ever because all of these companies keep touting the coming of the “software-defined” […]

Software snafus abound, Nuro makes more cuts and VinFast takes the SPAC road by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB’s early-stage and growth portfolios

May 14, 2023

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Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB’s early-stage and growth portfolios by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch