SparkCharge raises $30M to help fleets electrify without commitments
SparkCharge raised $15.5 million in equity and secured a $15 million loan to expand its fleet charging operations.
Read moreOpenAI’s Codex is part of a new cohort of agentic coding tools
Last Friday, OpenAI introduced a new coding system called Codex, designed to perform complex programming tasks from natural language commands. Codex moves OpenAI into a new cohort of agentic coding tools that is just beginning to take shape. From GitHub’s early Copilot to contemporary tools like Cursor and Windsurf, most
Read moreMatrices of Matrices
It’s often useful to partition a matrix, thinking of it as a matrix whose entries are matrices. For example, you could look at the matrix 6 × 6 as a 2 × 2 matrix whose entries are 3 × 3 matrices. M is not a diagonal matrix of real numbers,
Read moreDurable execution: autosave for your microservices
Ryan is joined by Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, and Qian Li, co-founder of DBOS, to discuss durable execution and its use cases, its implementation using technologies like PostgreSQL, and its applications in machine learning pipelines and AI systems for reliability, debugging, and observability.
Read moreMonzo’s pivot from cool to corporate: ‘freshness is not about gimmicks’
Monzo, Britain’s biggest digital bank, is still synonymous with its neon debit cards, extensive use of emojis, and free spending abroad. But it’s no longer just trying to be cool; it’s trying to become a major financial institution. That shift, from an upstart fintech beloved by millennials into a mature,
Read moreSylndr, with fresh $15.7M, allows users to buy, sell, finance, and service used cars in Egypt
Cairo-based Sylndr has raised $15.7 million as it expands beyond online used car sales into auto financing, servicing, and tools for dealers. Development Partners International’s Nclude Fund led the round. The company, which operates in Egypt’s fast-growing but under-digitized vehicle market, said the latest round includes both fresh equity and
Read moreWaymo gets OK to expand robotaxi service into more of Silicon Valley
The company is also aiming to unlock access to the San Francisco International Airport, although those plans are on a much longer timeline.
Read moreKlarna’s revenue per employee soars to nearly $1 million thanks to AI efficiency push
Last year, Klarna announced a significant initiative to leverage its internally developed AI systems, powered by OpenAI, across its operations. This wasn’t empty talk for the buy now, pay later giant. The company not only ended its pricey contract with Salesforce CRM, but also curtailed its hiring efforts, allowing AI
Read moreWaymo and Uber are giving some riders early access to Atlanta robotaxi service
Atlanta is the second city to get the so-called "Waymo on Uber" service. The companies launched the service, which matches riders with a
Read moreJudge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court
A federal judge is asking Apple to approve Fortnite’s submission on the U.S. App Store or return to court to explain the legal basis as to why it has not done so. In a new filing, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers confirms the court has received Epic Games’ latest
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