Defense startup Mach Industries closes $79M Series A at $335M valuation
Defense tech darling Mach Industries has closed a $79 million Series A led by Bedrock Capital in a deal that catapulted their post-money valuation to $335 million, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. Mach Industries’ head of growth Koko Xu confirmed the numbers in an email, adding that the new investment came
Read moreNews app turned X competitor Artifact now lets users generate AI images for their posts
Artifact, the news aggregator recently turned X competitor, is adding a new generative AI feature. The app, built by Instagram’s co-founders, announced last week it would allow users to post their own updates, which didn’t have to include a link. Today, it’s expanding on that addition with the ability for
Read moreDocker launches remote container builds, new debugging tools and more
Docker today announced a slew of new products at DockerCon, the company’s user conference which has returned as an in-person event. These include a new remote build service, new debugging tools and the general availability of Docker Scout, the company’s software supply chain security service. The event comes at an
Read moreLemurian Labs is building a new compute paradigm to reduce cost of running AI models
It’s fair to say that Nvidia has found itself in the right place at the right time with demand for its GPU chips at an all time high, thanks to the resource demands of generative AI models, but what if there were a chip that provided similar power at a
Read moreAt One Ventures $375M new fund shows climate tech is still hot
The 3-year-old venture capital firm raised more money than it expected for its second fund, suggesting that limited partners are warming to climate tech.
Read moreGoogle Photos’ AI-powered Magic Editor feature to ship with Pixel 8 and 8 Pro
Google is bringing generative AI to its popular Google Photos app with the arrival of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones. The feature, first announced at the company’s I/O developer conference in May, allows for more complicated edits — like filling in gaps in a photo, repositioning the
Read moreGeneralized trigonometry
In a recent post I mentioned in passing that trigonometry can be generalized from functions associated with a circle to functions associated with other curves. This post will go into that a little further. The equation of the unit circle is and so in the first quadrant The length of
Read moreRecapitalization, $60M Series D support growth of e-commerce financier Clearco
Today's news marks a turnaround for a company that’s had its share of ups and downs over the past year.
Read moreRabbit is building an AI model that understands how software works
What if you could interact with any piece of software using natural language? Imagine typing in a prompt and having AI translate the instructions into machine-comprehendable commands, executing tasks on a PC or phone to accomplish the goal that you just described? That’s the idea behind Rabbit, a rebranding of
Read moreOkta plans to weave AI across its entire identity platform using multiple models
One thing is clear this year: generative AI is having a tremendous impact on the software industry, and a week doesn’t pass without software companies announcing their plans to incorporate the seemingly game changing technology into their platforms. This week, it’s Okta’s turn. The identity company is making a slew
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