Garantex administrator arrested in India under extradition law
Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India’s Kerala on Tuesday under the country’s extradition law.
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Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI
On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might suggest the former President “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lawful speech” in AI products. The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick […]
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Gemini Robotics uses Google’s top language model to make robots more useful
Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability to be more dexterous, work from natural-language commands, and generalize across tasks. All three are things that robots have struggled to do until now. The team hopes…
8 New Health and Wellness Books That Entrepreneurs Should Read for Sustainable Success
From boosting energy to balancing well-being, these science-backed and transformative reads will help entrepreneurs thrive in business and life.
How a Police Officer Started a Pet Care Business Making $3 Million a Year
Larkin Combs has what it takes to build a successful second act.
This Founder’s ‘Favorite’ Interview Question Only Has 1 Right Answer
Stephen Smith built Planet Beach and Hotworx into franchises with hundreds of locations by honing his ability to suss out hard workers.
Why Onyx thinks its open-source solution will win enterprise search
Enterprises have troves of internal data and information that employees need to complete their tasks or answer questions for potential customers. But that doesn’t mean the right information is easy to find. Onyx wants to solve that problem through its internal enterprise search tool. There are other big names in the category, like Glean — […]
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Lithium-ion batteries are remaking Google’s data centers
Google is replacing lead-acid battery backup units with lithium-ion cells, freeing up space for more servers.
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Project Europe, a new early stage fund, will back under-25s with $200K to build the next tech titan
A recurring theme in Europe’s tech world is that the region needs its own Google or Microsoft, and that in this day and age, to be more resilient and independent, it should, could and must build it. Now comes the launch of a new fund to support this initiative. Project Europe — a new fund […]
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Battery manufacturer Northvolt nears the end as it files for bankruptcy in Sweden
Though the Swedish startup has raised over $14 billion, it has been running short on cash recently.
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No Experience? No Problem. How This First-Time Franchisee Built a $3 Million Business.
Tiffiny Consoli went from retail management to running a multi-million-dollar business. Here’s how she turned a franchise opportunity into success.