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The robots who predict the future
To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us hunt, avoid being hunted, plant crops, forge social bonds, and in general survive in a world that does not…
How to Measure Franchise Success With Comparative Testing
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TikTok’s new program aims to identify rising artists in the music industry
TikTok is launching a new program that is designed to identify the next wave of rising artists in the music industry, the company announced on Tuesday. The new program, called Elevate, is meant to help musicians create a lifelong career in the music industry, beyond being a one-hit wonder. The company did not go into […]
DataStax brings vector search to its Astra DB database service
DataStax, the well-funded Apache Cassandra-centric database company, is placing a lot of its current bets on AI and its technology’s ability to provide highly scalable vector search capabilities to provide real-time context to generative AI models. Today, following a short public preview, the company is launching the vector search capabilities of its hosted Astra DB […]
Developer-focused email platform Resend raises $3M
Sending transactional emails may seem like a solved problem. Sendgrid, Postmark, Mailgun and others offer dependable email APIs for developers, after all. However, many of those companies have also been acquired in the last few years and haven’t necessarily kept up with the latest development trends — or at least that’s what startups like Resend […]
Polar Analytics raises $9M to scale Shopify brands
Polar Analytics gives each brand a so-called “knowledge worker,” that aggregates all of the different data sources so that users can then pose questions about the data.
Hammerspace ingests $56M for a new approach to work with vast amounts of unstructured data
Data may be “the new oil,” but only when it can be extracted and put to use. Today, a five year-old startup called Hammerspace that is giving any kind of data that lease of life is announcing $56 million in funding — its first institutional investment — as it expands its business. Prosperity7 Ventures — […]
The Download: America’s AI lawsuits, and Threads restrictions
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. How judges, not politicians, could dictate America’s AI rules It’s becoming increasingly clear that courts, not politicians, will be the first to determine the limits on how AI is developed and used in…
Pepper Lunch Team on Seizing Unique Opportunities for Global Growth
Interview with Pepper Lunch executive team Troy Hooper, Yuto Tago, and Sumio Matsumoto about Japanese hospitality and the “DIY Teppanyaki” brand story.
How to Measure Franchise Success With Comparative Testing
This simple task is imperative for decision-making and business growth.