This Sweet Treat’s Popularity on TikTok Is Causing a Pistachio Shortage
Dubai chocolate’s popularity in all forms, from candy bars to sundaes to eating it out of a tub like peanut butter, has led to an international pistachio shortage.
Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries
Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…
Meta releases its CapCut rival Edits globally
Meta announced on Tuesday that it’s officially launching Edits, its CapCut-like video creation app. Releasing globally, Edits will allow creators to do things like keep track of video ideas, get inspiration for new content, and create videos with effects and AI tools. The app is available on iOS and Android. All of the app’s features […]
Why Most New Day Traders Go Broke and How a Trading Simulator Helps
Let’s look at the only shortcut to day trading competence.
‘Make Chess as Accessible as Possible’: Duolingo’s Next Move Is Teaching Users How to Play Chess
Duolingo is debuting a chess course complete with short puzzles and mini-matches.
Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup
As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning libraries. During his time there, Valkov realized that artificial intelligence “was about to unlock capabilities…in the application layer in the software stack.” He left Meta in late 2021 to start Lace AI, a startup that has developed […]
India’s EV startup Ather cuts IPO size to $308M, seeking $1.4B post-money valuation
Ather Energy, the Indian startup manufacturing electric two-wheelers, has cut the size of its initial public offer by 18% to 26.26 billion Indian rupees ($308.3M), according to a new draft prospectus filed Tuesday. The Bengaluru-based startup confirmed to TechCrunch it’s targeting a post-money valuation of $1.4 billion. Last September, the startup sought a valuation of […]
Two undergrads built an AI speech model to rival NotebookLM
A pair of undergrads, neither with extensive AI expertise, say that they’ve created an openly available AI model that can generate podcast-style clips similar to Google’s NotebookLM. The market for synthetic speech tools is vast and growing. ElevenLabs is one of the largest players, but there’s no shortage of challengers (see PlayAI, Sesame, and so […]
She Started a Sustainable Business After a ‘Near-Death Experience.’ It Led to 8-Figure Sales and Replaced Over 656 Million Pieces of Plastic.
Lauren Gropper, founder and CEO of Repurpose, didn’t always want to be an entrepreneur — then circumstances changed.
Adaptive Computer wants to reinvent the PC with ‘vibe’ coding for non-programmers
Dennis Xu is a repeat tech startup founder, but he’s the first to admit he’s not a programmer. After co-founding AI note-taking app Mem — one of OpenAI’s earliest venture investments — he has now launched a new startup called Adaptive Computer. Its grandiose mission is nothing less than a complete reimagining of personal computer […]
Marks & Spencer confirms cybersecurity incident amid ongoing disruption
The company said it was necessary to make operational changes to protect the business.