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Jeff Bezos launches industrial AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has spent the past few years perfecting the aesthetic of a man who owns both a megayacht and the clothes that match it. Now, he's pivoting to something less photogenic and far more revealing: an AI startup built for the…
Cisco acquires translation startup EzDubs
Networking giant Cisco has acquired EzDub, a Y-Combinator-backed consumer startup that provides real-time translation services. Cisco announced the acquisition over the weekend, but the company didn't disclose the size of the deal. EzDubs was…
Building Startups On Emerging Technology: When To Bet On What's Coming
Michael Shmulevich, CTO of First Touch specializing in startup technology strategy and innovation. Every startup founder hits the same dilemma. Do you wait for technology to mature, or build on what's emerging now? Wait too long, and competitors…
AI Startup Ideas: Monetization Lessons For CIOs To Scale
Dr. Milan Kumar, CIO / CDO & Global Tech Leader transforming Fortune500 companies in the technology areas of Digital, DataAI Monetization. Not all AI startups fail, but almost all do. A recent MIT study found that 95% of generative AI initiatives…
Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO
After stepping down as Amazon's CEO four years ago, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder and former chief executive of the online shopping company, is going to be a CEO again. This time, Bezos has appointed himself co-CEO of an AI startup called…
Jeff Bezos Takes the Reins as Co-CEO at a New AI Startup
The 61-year-old Amazon founder is investing $6.2 billion into a new AI company called Project Prometheus, and he'll serve as the startup's co-CEO, according to the New York Times. The company, which the New York Times has called one of the most…
Danish startup FlatPay joins the club of European fintech unicorns to track
Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, has joined the ranks of European fintech unicorns — or startups valued at more than $1 billion — a milestone that has driven some of the region's biggest exits. These include…
Meet the new media startups built to thrive without Google traffic
Search traffic to many digital publishers is falling, but a new guard of media companies isn't worried. The Bulwark is one of them. Jonathan V. Last, the top editor at the center-right news and opinion site, said search was 'at the very, very…
Apple loses iPhone Air designer to unnamed AI startup
Bloomberg reports that Abidur Chowdhury, the industrial designer who introduced the iPhone Air during Apple's September event, has left for an unnamed artificial intelligence startup. Here are the details. Apple has been facing a relentless brain…
Jeff Bezos's New AI Hardware Startup Isn't Even His Biggest Moonshot
Here on Earth, regulators and citizens alike are realizing that there may be downsides to going all in on the demands of AI data centers and the companies that are building them, and pushback is starting to become more prevalent. But in space, no…
Longevity Startup Funding Sees Fewer Moonshots, But Plenty Of Buzzy Investments
Virtually everyone would like to live a longer, healthier life. Given the ubiquity of this aspiration, it's not surprising that longevity has a lengthy history as a popular startup investment theme. However, the space is also not immune to market…
MCP AI agent security startup Runlayer launches with 8 unicorns, $11M from Khosla's Keith Rabois and Felicis
On Monday, a new Model Context Protocol security startup called Runlayer launched out of stealth with $11 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures' Keith Rabois and Felicis. It was created by third-time founder Andrew Berman (previous…
'A parent's worst nightmare': Lawsuits pile up against ByHeart baby formula startup after wave of infant illnesses
Last week, the baby nutrition company ByHeart recalled all of its infant formula over concerns that it may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes infant botulism. Now the company is facing increasing legal drama and…
This $2.6B Japanese A.I. Startup Exposes the Language Gap in Today's LLMs
Like many other A.I. startups, Sakana AI is pursuing technology that can reason, self-improve and aid scientific research. But where the Tokyo-based venture stands apart from most of the world's model developers is in its focus on designing…
Pentagon-backed RTP startup eyes Johnston County for rare-earth magnets plant
A Pentagon-backed Research Triangle Park startup could announce as soon as Tuesday plans for a major manufacturing plant in Johnston County — a deal that, if consummated, could make North Carolina a U.S. hub for rare-earth magnets. RTP-based…
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