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Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries
Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…
Lighthouse Canton’s Maiden Venture Debt Fund Reaches First Close
The Fund shall provide debt capital to technology-enabled companies which are part of the Indian startup ecosystem
SheerDrive Raises Pre-Series A Round Led By JITO Angel Network
The funds will be utilized in scaling growth and expanding SheerDrive’s footprint in the pre-owned car market in India, as well as further developing the company’s AI/ML-based intelligent VIAR technology platform to its next version of operational capability
If your CEO isn’t pitching to VCs, you’ll never raise money
Never rely on external resources to do the fundraising for your startup.
If your CEO isn’t pitching to VCs, you’ll never raise money by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
The Download: ID’ing rioters in Brazil, and shooting for the moon
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. Brazilians are turning to Instagram to identify far-right rioters In the hours after far-right insurrectionists trashed government buildings in Brazil’s capital on Sunday January 8, a new account popped up on Instagram. Called…
Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices
An increasing number of organizations are adopting microservices, the loosely-coupled, independently-deployable services that together make up an app. According to a 2020 O’Reilly survey, 77% of organizations had adopted microservices as of then, with 29% reporting that they were migrating or implementing a majority of their systems using microservices. The widespread microservices adoption has spawned […]
Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Tesla rolls into a pressure cooker, Paris mulls its scooter future, and the double SPAC arrives
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Tesla rolls into a pressure cooker, Paris mulls its scooter future, and the double SPAC arrives by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
Paris to hold vote on shared scooters
This weekend, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that Parisians will get to vote whether they want to ban free-floating electric scooters or not. As I explained last week, Dott, Lime and Tier, the three scooter companies currently operating in the city, have operating licenses that are set to expire on March 23rd, […]
Paris to hold vote on shared scooters by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
Twitter’s third-party client issue is seemingly a deliberate suspension
Last Friday, a ton of popular Twitter clients including Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and Echofon were down. Users couldn’t log into their accounts or look at their timelines. At first, it looked like a bug in Twitter API, but radio silence from Twitter and new details indicated that the company deliberately limited access to third-party apps. The […]
Twitter’s third-party client issue is seemingly a deliberate suspension by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
The New Microsoft AI Tool Can Mimic Anyone’s Voice
A new AI tool by Microsoft has garnered quite the attention. Vall-E’s AI Text To Speech system (TTS) can take a three second recording of a person and then convert written words into a speech in that person’s voice. What is the most frightful and astonishing part about the tool is its accuracy.