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This artificial leaf makes hydrocarbons out of carbon dioxide
For many years, researchers have been working to build devices that can mimic photosynthesis—the process by which plants use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their fuel. These artificial leaves use sunlight to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen, which could then be used to fuel cars or generate electricity. Now a research team has…
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Turing, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation
As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged as a key partner in fulfilling that effort is announcing a significant round of funding to expand. Turing, which works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects — […]
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A year later, OpenAI still hasn’t released its voice cloning tool
Late last March, OpenAI announced a “small-scale preview” of an AI service, Voice Engine, that the company claimed could clone a person’s voice with just 15 seconds of speech. Roughly a year later, the tool remains in preview, and OpenAI has given no indication as to when it might launch — or whether it’ll launch […]
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Crogl, armed with $30M, takes the wraps off a new AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts
AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant for cybersecurity researchers to help them analyse thousands of daily network alerts to find and fix actual security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy […]
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The Download: Denmark’s robot city, and Google’s AI-only search results
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. Welcome to robot city The city of Odense, in Denmark, is best known as the site where King Canute, Denmark’s last Viking king, was murdered during the 11th century. Today, Odense it’s also…
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UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites
The UK is no longer recommending the use of encryption for at-risk groups following its iCloud backdoor demands
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A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated
With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the current batch of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup accelerator. A quarter of the W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC managing […]
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Renaissance Fusion raises €32M to radically simplify complex fusion reactors
The startup is betting that by simplifying stellarators, it can make fusion power cheaper and easier to maintain.
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