July 22, 2025

Fighting forever chemicals and startup fatigue

What if we could permanently remove the toxic “forever chemicals” contaminating our water? That’s the driving force behind Michigan-based startup Enspired Solutions, founded by environmental toxicologist Denise Kay and chemical engineer Meng Wang. The duo left corporate consulting in the rearview mirror to take on one of the most pervasive environmental challenges: PFAS. “PFAS is…

An AI that can play Goat Simulator is a step towards more useful AI

March 13, 2024
Fly, goat, fly! A new AI agent from Google DeepMind can play different games, including ones it has never seen before such as Goat Simulator 3, a fun action game with exaggerated physics. Researchers were able to get it to follow text commands to play seven different games and move around in three different 3D…

Google Deepmind trains a video game-playing AI to be your co-op companion

March 13, 2024

AI models that play games go back decades, but they generally specialize in one game and always play to win. Google Deepmind researchers have a different goal with their latest creation: a model that learned to play multiple 3D games like a human, but also does its best to understand and act on your verbal […]

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The Download: what social media can teach us about AI

March 13, 2024
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. Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media —Nathan E. Sanders is a data scientist and an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Bruce…

Blockchain startup Sei Labs creates an interesting solution to make Ethereum faster

March 13, 2024

Sei Labs, a startup co-founded by a former Robinhood engineer and a former VC from Coatue, has launched a new open sourced project that offers a novel, and exciting approach to make Ethereum faster and less expensive for developers. On Wednesday, Sei launched The Parallel Stack, a public good project – meaning free for any […]

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Volley’s AI-enabled ball machine for racquet sports can simulate gameplay

March 13, 2024

A new sports tech startup, Volley, aims to revolutionize the way racquet sports players (platform tennis, padel, and pickleball) train with its AI-enabled sports training machine. Unlike traditional tennis ball machines that simply launch balls at varying speeds and heights, Volley’s trainer robot leverages AI and vision software to collect data as you play, learn […]

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