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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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…
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.
How La Fourche, an online organic supermarket, is thriving after q-commerce’s bust
La Fourche is just seven years old but it has been quite a rollercoaster for the French startup. During this time, the online grocery retailer has gone through a global pandemic, followed by the rise of venture-backed quick-commerce startups that promised grocery deliveries in less than 15 minutes, followed by the implosion of that vertical. […]
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How This Raw Food Startup Is Taking a Bite Out of the $45B Pet Industry
We Feed Raw wants to change your dog’s diet to how it was meant to be.
Pentera nabs $60M at a $1B+ valuation to build simulated network attacks to train security teams
Strong and smart security operations teams are at the heart of any cybersecurity strategy, and today a startup that builds tooling to help keep them on their toes is announcing some funding on the back of a lot of growth. Pentera — which has built a system that launches simulations of network attacks to stress […]
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Wolf Games, backed by ‘Law & Order’ creator, uses AI to create murder mystery games
Elliot Wolf, the executive producer and son of “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf, is entering a new venture aimed at engaging true crime fans. He, along with co-founders Andrew Adashek (CEO) and Noah Rosenberg (CTO), are developing Wolf Games, a new startup that leverages AI to generate daily murder mystery games. The company also […]
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The Download: testing new AI agent Manus, and Waabi’s virtual robotruck ambitions
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. Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test. Since the general AI agent Manus was launched last week, it has spread online like wildfire. And not just in…
This startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Green-steel startup Boston Metal just showed that it has all the ingredients needed to make steel without emitting gobs of greenhouse gases. The company successfully ran its largest reactor yet to make…
Meta faces publisher copyright AI lawsuit in France
Meta is facing an AI copyright publisher lawsuit in France accusing it of economic “parasitism,” Reuters reports. The French litigation was filed in a Paris court this week by the National Publishing Union (SNE), the National Union of Authors and Composers (SNAC), and the Society of People of Letters (SGDL), which are accusing Meta of […]
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Ditto lands $82M to synchronize data from the edge to the cloud
Ditto, a company that’s setting out to bring “resilient” connectivity to edge devices, has raised $82 million in a Series B round of funding at a post-money valuation of $462 million — more than double its Series A valuation from 2023. “Edge,” in the context of Ditto’s industry, refers to a distributed computing model that […]
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