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Quick Hits
90 exaflops: Taiwan builds AI supercomputer.
AI ‘enablers’: Researchers win Nobel Prize.
Battery ban: eBay axes e-bikes.
Box office bust: HBO Bitcoin docu rebuffed.
Evolving alliance: AI Alliance adds cloud.
Fair Play: Judge opens app store to rivals.
Engagement engine: Glassdoor is the next LI.
EU hubs: OpenAI eyes Paris, Brussels.
Exec exit: Tesla vehicle chief jumps to Waymo.
Crypto payback: FTX repays customers.
Historic rebirth: Teen beats Tetris.
GPU goldmine: Super Micro surges.
‘Robofab’: Humanoids fabricate Spanx.
Wake up with Mario: Nintendo’s alarm clock.
Int’l Discord: Turkey, Russia block app.
Trending Startups
Amazon develops AI ‘culture coach’
Amid RTO mandates, Amazon offers young employees access to a generative AI “culture coach” to provide guidance to young employees.
Legal AI unicorn ‘scales top performers’
Newly minted legal AI unicorn EvenUp automates the work of 1k+ law firms stretched thin on talent. "They need technology to scale their top performers,” co-founder Rami Karabibar says.
AI’s double Nobel Prize win
Google’s DeepMind claims half of a Nobel Prize for proteins prediction in a second Nobel win for AI.
Adobe releases ‘nutrition label’ for creators
Adobe released a free tool to help creators protect their work from generative AI training and add context to work they do wish to share.
Airline launches AI startup
Alaska Airlines’ new venture, Odysee, develops AI tools to optimize airline flight schedules.
AI for technical documentation
Driver launched an AI platform to automate lengthy technical documentation in the semiconductor industry.
Recently Funded
U.S.
- Colorado-based Vectorize Raises $3.6M for Enterprise Data Solutions
- San Francisco's Infactory Secures $4M for Generative AI Fact-Checking
- Clout Kitchen Secures $4.45M for AI-Powered Gaming Solutions
- California’s Third Dimension AI Raises $6.9M to Transform Game Development with Generative AI
- California’s Distributional Secures $19M for AI Testing Automation
Europe
- Sweden's Lovable Raises $7.5M for AI Coding Assistant
- London's Lightdash Raises $11M for Open-Source BI Solutions
- Germany’s Unify Raises $12M for AI-Powered Sales Messaging
- London's Basecamp Research Secures $60M for AI in Biology
India
- Sorich Raises $1M for Pharmaceutical Packaging Solutions
- XDLINX Space Labs Secures $7M for Spacetech Solutions
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