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Founded in 2017, Bionaut Labs arrived out of stealth in March 2021, with plans to commercialize longstanding research around drug delivery robots. The Los Angeles-based startup today followed up its initial $20 million funding announcement with a $43.2 million Series B, bringing its total raise up to – you guessed it — $63.2 million. This […]

Bionaut Labs gets $43.2M for its tiny drug delivery robots by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence promises to help, and maybe even replace, humans to carry out everyday tasks and solve problems that humans have been unable to tackle, yet ironically, building that AI faces a major scaling problem. It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing […]

V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Yahoo is taking a nearly 25% stake in advertising network Taboola. In exchange for this move, Taboola is becoming Yahoo’s native advertising partner through a 30-year commercial agreement. If you’re not familiar with Taboola, you may have seen its content recommendation widgets on popular news websites, such as USA Today, Insider and The Weather Channel. […]

Yahoo gets 25% stake in Taboola as part of long-term advertising deal by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

The U.S. government said it is banning telecommunications and video surveillance equipment from several prominent Chinese brands in an effort to protect the nation’s communications network. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously on Friday to expand its ban on the sale and import of Chinese technology from firms that pose an “unacceptable risk to […]

US government bans Huawei, ZTE, and Hikvision tech over ‘unacceptable’ spying fears by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

French startup Deepomatic has raised a $10.5 million (€10 million) Series B funding round. While the founding round is relatively small, the startup has managed to convince some large-scale clients to use its visual automation platform. For instance, telecom companies use Deepomatic on the field to check that tasks have been completed successfully. EnBW New […]

Deepomatic wants to build the AI-based computer vision companion for field workers by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Search any major Chinese city on Twitter, and you will see a cascade of spam tweets showing porn, escort services, and gambling content that are published every few seconds, making it impossible to get any legitimate results. There has been a “significant uptick” in these tweets over the last three days, according to a China-focused […]

Great Wall of porn obscures China protest news on Twitter by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

To tap into the massive amount of heat the Earth generates, enhanced geothermal startups are focused on advanced drilling techniques.

Meet 5 startups working to harness the Earth’s heat to save the planet by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch