Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive
Lumotive reopened its February Series B round to add Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund and ITHCA Group, increasing the size of the round to $59 million.
Read moreThis startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents
Mixus' AI agent platform not only keeps humans in the workflow, it also allows those humans to interact with agents directly from their email or Slack.
Read moreThree things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup
RA Capital Planetary Health closed a $120 million fund. Here's the rubric two investors use to determine where to place their fund's money.
Read more“AI has been the wild west”: Creating standards for agents with Sean Falconer
Ryan is joined on the podcast by Confluent’s AI Entrepreneur in Residence, Sean Falconer, to discuss the growing need for standards for AI agents, the emerging Model Context Protocol and agent-to-agent communication, and what we can learn from early web standards while AI continues to evolve.
Read moreLatent Labs launches web-based AI model to democratize protein design
The company claims that its model achieved state of the art on specific metrics.
Read moreInstead of selling to Meta, AI chip startup FuriosaAI signed a huge customer
South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI announced a partnership on Tuesday to supply its AI chip, RNGD, to enterprises using LG AI Research‘s recently unveiled EXAONE platform. RNGD is optimized for running large language models (LLMs) and just last week, the Korean tech giant LG unveiled its next-generation hybrid AI
Read moreTesla’s retro-futuristic diner officially opens as Elon Musk hints at more locations
The Tesla Diner & Drive-In officially opened Monday and it seems Elon Musk is planning for more.
Read moreOpenAI and Google outdo the mathletes, but not each other
OpenAI and Google's AI models achieved impressive results in a difficult math competition, but disputed how the other got their score.
Read moreSerial spyware founder Scott Zuckerman wants the FTC to unban him from the surveillance industry
The spyware maker was banned from the surveillance industry in 2021, but was caught flouting the ban less than a year later. Now the founder wants the ban lifted altogether.
Read moreCitizen will share crime videos with the NYPD
Mayor Eric Adams announced over the weekend that New York City will send users real-time public safety alerts based on their specific location through the crime-tracking app Citizen. The city also announced that public safety agencies, like the New York City Police Department, Fire Department, and Emergency Management, will have
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