Refurbished e-bike marketplace Upway raised $30M at a higher valuation
Upway, the French startup that refurbishes and resells electric bikes and recently launched in the U.S., has brought on new funding at a higher valuation than its previous round. The $30 million Series B up round, led by Korelya Capital, into a startup that deals in e-bikes signals that Upway
Read moreCustomer data-syncing and analysis startup Hightouch acquires HeadsUp
Customer data-syncing startup Hightouch announced today it has acquired HeadsUp. As part of the deal, HeadsUp co-founder Earl Lee will join Hightouch, working on Customer 360, a product that uses AI and machine learning to help clients manage and collaborate on customer data. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. Both
Read moreTaproot Wizards raises $7.5M for its Ordinals project to bring the ‘magic’ back to Bitcoin
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Read moreAWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent
As enterprises move to the cloud, figuring out how and where they are spending their money has become increasingly difficult. The different SaaS provider and cloud platforms use their own definitions for how they report what these companies spend. On top of that, they then make that data available in
Read moreWith Muse, Unity aims to give developers generative AI that’s useful and ethical
Unity is joining the rest of the gang in providing generative AI tools for its users, but has been careful (unlike some) to ensure those tools are built on a solidly non-theft-based foundation. Muse, the new suite of AI-powered tools, will start with texture and sprite generation, and graduate to
Read moreIda uses AI to prevent grocery food waste
Ida is a relatively new French startup that wants to work with supermarkets and grocery stores to optimize new orders of fresh products, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish. The startup recently raised a $2.9 million (€2.7 million) seed round from Frst, Daphni, Motier Ventures and Kima Ventures.
Read moreEU faces privacy complaint over CSAM microtargeting ads it ran on X
A microtargeted advertising controversy which has implicated European Union lawmakers in privacy-hostile practices banned by laws they had a hand in passing is the subject of a new complaint by privacy rights not-for-profit, noyb. The complaint against the EU Commission’s Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs is being filed
Read moreRefilled wants to save 100 million plastic bottles from the landfill
The Australian government recently set new packaging regulations after an official review found just 18% of plastic packaging is recycled, falling far short of a 70% target by 2025. Refilled, a Sydney-based startup, wants to help with its smart drink dispensers, which are meant to be used with reusable bottles.
Read moreMicrosoft launches a deepfakes creator at Ignite 2023 event
One of the more unexpected products to launch out of the Microsoft Ignite 2023 event is a tool that can create a photorealistic avatar of a person and animate that avatar saying things that the person didn’t necessarily say. Called Azure AI Speech text to speech avatar, the new feature, available
Read moreMicrosoft renames Bing Chat to Copilot as it competes with ChatGPT
Everything’s coming up Copilot — including Bing. Today at Microsoft Ignite 2023, the company renamed Bing Chat, the AI-powered chatbot it launched on Bing earlier this year, to Copilot in Bing. Meanwhile, the premium, corporate-focused version of Bing Chat, which was previously called Bing Chat Enterprise, has also been rebranded
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