Rivian reminds investors that making EVs is incredibly expensive
Remember how long it took Tesla to start making money and how much it raised along the way? Building an EV company is not an easy or quick process.
Customer Loyalty Is Becoming More Fragile. Here’s the Leadership Mistake That’s Fueling Its Decline.
Why trust and emotional connection, not speed or automation, drive lasting loyalty — and how you can use humans and technology together to keep customers coming back.
‘TikTok whisperer’ Annie Wu Henry on social media and 2024
Connecting with the youth is a craft that has long eluded the Olds — a demographic that’s less defined by age than it is by social media habits. Politicians, historically, have not prioritized young voter outreach. But in recent elections, the youth voter turnout cinched major wins for Democrats, and as the 2024 presidential election […]
Google DeepMind unites researchers in bid to create an ImageNet of robot actions
Of all the holy grails in robotics, learning may well be the holiest. In an era when the term “general purpose” is tossed around with great abandon, however, it can be difficult for non-roboticists to understand what today’s systems can — and can’t — do. The truth of it is that most robots these days […]
EngFlow and tipi.build launch a remote CMake build execution service for your C and C++ code
EngFlow, the well-funded build acceleration startup, today announced that has invested in tipi.build. With this, EngFlow is teaming up with tipi to extend its services beyond support for build tools like Bazel, Goma and Soong to create a remote build service for CMake, the de-facto standard for building C++ code. The two companies did not […]
Thoughts debuts an app designed to inspire you, not distract you
Instead of scrolling mindlessly through a social feed of updates, a new app called Thoughts offers a way to scroll through and collect inspirational content. Created by indie developer Henri Bredt, Thoughts is described as a “focused inspiration manager” that’s designed to help you remember things that inspired you, whether that’s hand-picked quotes, famous sayings […]
Driving companywide efficiencies with AI
Autonomous shopping carts that follow grocery store customers and robots that pick ripe cucumbers faster than humans may grab headlines, but the most compelling applications of AI and ML technology are behind the scenes. Increasingly, organizations are finding substantial efficiency gains by applying AI- and ML-powered tools to back-office procedures such as document processing, data…
12 Surefire Tips for the Perfect Investor Pitch
Pitching your startup is easier and less stressful when you take the proper steps from the beginning.
Retailers Are Going to Shatter Discount Records This Holiday Season — But You’ll Have to Shop the Right Way to Cash In
Consumers shopping for gifts amid inflation are eager for the best deals.
Spotify’s new artist profiles highlight music, Stories, merch and events
Spotify today is rolling out a big change in terms of how users connect with artists on its streaming music platform. With the newly debuted artist profile pages, content has been reorganized under three main tabs, including Music, Events, and Merch. The Music tab will also now not only feature the artist’s tracks and albums, […]
Machina Labs raises $32M to bring flexibility to manufacturing
“Flexibility” isn’t a word one often applies to the manufacturing process. Changing things up on the assembly line is a resource-intensive activity, but automation and robotics could go a ways toward removing some friction from the process. That’s effectively the thesis statement behind Machina Labs. The Los Angeles-based firm distills things into the simplest language […]