Kiki World, a beauty brand that uses web3 for customer co-creation and ownership, raises $7M from a16z

October 7, 2025

The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants

The Department of Energy appears poised to terminate funding for a pair of large carbon sucking factories that were originally set to receive more than $1 billion in government grants, according to a department issued list of projects obtained by MIT Technology Review and circulating among federal agencies. The projects include the South Texas Direct…

April 9, 2024

If you think that choosing a nail polish color or which ingredients go into your face cream cannot have anything to do with blockchain, think again. Kiki World, a beauty startup launched last year, wants consumers to co-create products and co-own the company with the help of web3 technology. On Tuesday, LA-based Kiki announced that […]

Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor

April 9, 2024

Google says its Axion instances offer 30% better performance than other Arm-based instances from competitors.

Google open-sources tools to support AI model development

April 9, 2024

Google is launching Jetstream, a new engine to run generative AI models, and MaxDiffusion, a collection of reference implementations of various diffusion models.

New Google Vids product helps create a customized video with an AI assist

April 9, 2024

All of the major vendors have been looking at ways to use AI to help customers develop creative content. On Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las Vegas, Google introduced a new AI-fueled video creation tool called Google Vids. The tool will become part of Google Workspace productivity suite when it’s released. […]

Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell platform will come to Google Cloud in early 2025

April 9, 2024

In addition to the new custom Arm-based Axion chips, most of this year’s announcements are about AI accelerators, whether built by Google itself or from Nvidia.

Google Workspace users will soon get voice prompting in Gmail and tabs in Docs

April 9, 2024

Google is also launching a new feature in Gmail for Workspace that can instantly turn rough email drafts into a more polished email.

Google injects generative AI into its cloud security tools

April 9, 2024

Many of the announcements had to do with Gemini, Google’s flagship family of generative AI models.

Google launches Code Assist, its latest challenger to GitHub’s Copilot

April 9, 2024

Code Assist will be available through plug-ins for popular editors like VS Code and JetBrains.

Google’s Gemini comes to databases

April 9, 2024

Gemini in Databases is a bundle of AI-powered, developer-focused tools for Google Cloud customers who are creating, monitoring and migrating app databases.

Reshape wants to help ‘decode nature’ by automating the ‘visual’ part of lab experiments

April 9, 2024

Reshape has developed a robotic imaging system replete with software and AI models to help scientists track visual changes from Petri dishes and similar plate formats.

The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants