Max Q: That’s a wrap
In this issue: SpaceX debuts defense-focused business line; Slingshot’s new round of funding; news from ispace, Metaspectral and more
Max Q: That’s a wrap by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch
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…
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Snyk scores another $196M as valuation drops 12% to $7.4B
Snyk hasn’t been afraid to take money over the years, scoring an ever larger investment haul with each passing round, and with each one has come a correspondingly large valuation increase. This time, that particular streak ended, but Snyk snagged another $196.5 million investment with its valuation down about 12% to $7.4 billiion since its […]
Snyk scores another $196M as valuation drops 12% to $7.4B by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
Meta unplugs Connectivity division, home of satellite and drone internet experiments
Meta has quietly re-absorbed the resources of its “Connectivity” division, the company confirmed. For nearly 10 years this was the home of the former Facebook’s experimental internet and telecoms efforts, from satellites (exploded) to drones (crashed) to apps (disputed) and other more traditional infrastructure (appreciated and ongoing). As first noted by Light Reading, Meta Connectivity’s […]
Meta unplugs Connectivity division, home of satellite and drone internet experiments by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
All signs point to IT spending rising in 2023
Despite economic turbulence, CIOs and analysts predict IT spending will increase in 2023 for the most part.
All signs point to IT spending rising in 2023 by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success
Lensa’s AI popularity has had a notable impact on the App Store’s Top Charts. The popular photo and video editing app recently went viral over its new “magic avatars” feature, powered by the open source Stable Diffusion model, allowing users to turn their selfies into styled portraits of themselves as sci-fi, anime, or fantasy characters, […]
AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
The U.S. Is About to Announce an Historic Discovery In Renewable Energy
After decades of experiments around the word, researchers in California have finally figured out how to create net energy gain, but there is still a long road ahead.
5 Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture
Fail fast, fail often doesn’t work for farmers. Here are five agricultural realities funders and innovators need to understand.
HR platform Sequoia says hackers accessed customer SSNs and COVID-19 data
Benefits and payroll management company Sequoia says hackers accessed sensitive customer information, including their Social Security numbers and COVID-19 test results. According to Wired, which first broke the news of Sequoia’s breach last week, the incident impacted customers of Sequoia One, a professional employer organization (or PEO) that provides outsourced human resources and payroll services. […]
HR platform Sequoia says hackers accessed customer SSNs and COVID-19 data by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
Fortnite and MrBeast will give away $1 million in a pop-up game challenge
The world’s most popular YouTuber is taking over a corner of Fortnite and somebody will walk away with $1 million. Jimmy Donaldson, better known by the handle MrBeast, is partnering with Epic Games on something we haven’t seen the Fortnite-maker do before. The battle royale game will host something it’s calling “MrBeast’s Extreme Survival Challenge,” […]
Fortnite and MrBeast will give away $1 million in a pop-up game challenge by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch