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Travis Kalanick's robotics startup taps Meta veteran for top AI role
Travis Kalanick's new robotics startup, Atoms, has scooped up a high-profile hire. Vikas Chandra, a longtime Meta AI executive who led AI work for the company's smart glasses, announced Monday that he is joining the startup as vice president of AI.
Want free solar panels? This startup can help
Building a large solar farm typically takes years, thanks to permitting and grid connection delays. But a startup called Resilience Energy is rolling out a faster way to add clean energy: It pays to install solar and batteries across a network of…
Growing Pains for Startups in the ChatGPT Generation
Good day: ChatGPT's arrival kicked off a surge in artificial intelligence startups scoring their first venture funding. The number of venture-capital first financings for AI startups in the U.S. went from about 2,150 in 2022 to almost 3,400 last…
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup from a former Spotify leader for making music apps
As AI rages on, new startups are creating tools for people to create music using generative AI prompts in the style of any artist they want. A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a startup that sounds more like an indie band name, is focused on releasing a…
A legal AI startup has a plan to take on Lexis Nexis and Westlaw
Legora helped sell lawyers on artificial intelligence. Now it wants to keep bad law out of their files. In legal terms, a case is 'good law' when a lawyer can still safely rely on it. It has not been overturned, superseded by a new statute, or…
Why Google Picked 4 Indian Startups For Climate AI Programme
Google has selected four Indian climate-tech startups for its first Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet programme, backing AI- and satellite-driven solutions for agriculture, carbon removal and biodiversity. Google has selected four…
test Seoul biotech startups enter Boston pipeline through LabCentral
Seoul biotech startups take part in LabCentral's The Loop program in Boston on Tuesday, seeking connections with global drugmakers and investors / Courtesy of Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul is opening a new route into Boston's biotech…
Dead Weight On The Cap Table: The Startup Equity Problem Causing Litigation And How You Can Fix It
An overwhelming majority of early venture-backed startups utilize a standard four-year vesting schedule with a one-year cliff. It seems like the ultimate one-size-fits-all template. Yet almost no one talks about how this default framework routinely…
Defense, space startups take SPAC route as investor interest soars (ITA:BATS)
Risks include shareholder dilution, less scrutiny than IPOs, limited revenues, heavy dependence on government contracts, supply-chain disruptions, and need for additional financing. Increased government spending supports demand growth, encourages…
Little-known AI startup Micro1 tries to trump Google's bid for banrkupt Spirit Airlines' data
In a sign of just how valuable corporate data has become to AI companies, a little-known startup has swept in to try to preempt Google's bid to purchase decades-worth of documents, emails, and data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines. Micro1, which was…
Indian chip startups have raised 1.4 billion dollars, half of it since 2025
Technology The curve matters more than the total. Karnataka leads on tape-outs, which is the honest measure. Indian semiconductor startups have raised $1.4 billion in equity to date, with half of that arriving since 2025 and roughly $228 million in…
Procurement automation startup Aron launches with $8M in funding - SiliconANGLE
Aron Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to ease the work of procurement teams, launched today with $8 million in funding. The company raised the capital over two rounds. The first was led by Menlo Ventures while the second, more recent…
OpenAI reportedly buys AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than $300M - SiliconANGLE
OpenAI Group PBC has apparently bought smartphone camera software startup Glass Imaging Inc. for more than $300 million in a deal first reported today by The Wall Street Journal. Neither company has confirmed the purchase publicly. The purchase…
A San Francisco startup valued at $3 billion raised $300 million, and its software splits a single AI job across completely different chips at the same time
Every time you send a message to an AI assistant, a data center somewhere runs a sprint. It moves through two very distinct phases. Most data centers today handle both on one kind of chip. That is the part a San Francisco startup is now betting is…
High demand for startup funding highlights growth in Cyprus tech scene
The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) has received a record 284 proposals for its PRE-SEED programme, highlighting growing interest in creating and developing startups with international ambitions in Cyprus. The submission process for the…
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