Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation
Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, and so on. It’s best known for its automatic license plate recognition […]
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Data lakehouse Onehouse nabs $35M to capitalize on GenAI revolution
You can barely go an hour these days without reading about generative AI. While we are still in the embryonic phase of what some have dubbed the “steam engine” of the fourth industrial revolution, there’s little doubt that “GenAI” is shaping up to transform just about every industry — from finance and health care to […]
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Unbabel among first AI startups to win millions of GPU training hours on EU supercomputers
The European Union has announced the winners of a “Large AI Grand Challenge” it kicked off earlier this year in a bid to accelerate the pace of homegrown innovation by large-scale AI model makers. Four startups will share €1 million in prize money and — perhaps more importantly — eight million GPU hours to train […]
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Apple stresses device longevity, extends self-service repair to Europe
The perfect device is one that never breaks in the first place, while still allowing for easy user repair access when needed.
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If You Want to Be a Good Leader, Understand Your People — Here’s Why the Best Entrepreneurs Make Time to Understand Their Employees
Supreme Court rejects claim that Biden administration pressured social media firms into removing misinformation
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led challenge to the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies to combat online misinformation on topics related to COVID-19 and the 2020 election. Wednesday’s ruling overturns an injunction that would have limited contact between government officials and social media companies. The Republican Attorneys General in Louisiana and […]
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Starfish spacecraft will extend the life of an expensive GEO satellite in 2026 mission
Starfish Space and aerospace giant Intelsat have signed a new satellite servicing agreement that could permanently change the paradigm for satellite operations. Under the contract, Starfish will use its Otter satellite docking spacecraft to boost the orbit of an operational Intelsat satellite in geostationary orbit (GEO), using its onboard propulsion system to potentially provide several […]
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How the Kaspersky ban will hit resellers in the US
“It’s just a lot of time lost for nothing,” a U.S.-based Kaspersky reseller told TechCrunch.
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Hacker claims data breach of India’s eMigrate labor portal
A hacker claims to be selling an extensive database associated with an Indian government portal meant for blue-collar workforce emigrating from the country.
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Formation Bio raises $372M to boost drug development with AI
Formation Bio, a startup focused on applying AI to drug discovery with backing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has raised over a quarter-billion dollars to support its ambitious product roadmap. Formation today announced that it raised $372 million in a Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from drugmaker Sanofi, Sequoia, Thrive, […]
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