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The typical rules would suggest the former president should choose someone unlike himself to round out his ticket, but typical rules rarely apply to Trump.
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Apple’s iPad event was an AI teaser for its future
Apple's latest M4 chip is bringing more AI capabilities, providing a look into the company's upcoming WWDC conference.
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Wall Street is focused on the national debt. Presidential candidates less so.
The US national debt is set to surpass $35 trillion in the coming months, but weeks can go by on the presidential campaign trail without the topic coming up.
- TechCrunch
Bye-bye bots: Altera's game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt
Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it raised $9 million in an oversubscribed seed round, co-led by First Spark Ventures (Eric Schmidt’s deep-tech fund) and Patron (the seed stage fund co-founded by Riot Games alums). The funding follows Altera's previous raising a pre-seed $2 million from Andreessen Horowitz and others in January of this year.
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LSU coach Brian Kelly: 'We're not in the market of buying players'
Kelly said LSU hasn't "fared very well" in its attempts to add transfer defensive linemen.
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Retired WNBA legend Candace Parker named president of Adidas women’s basketball
Part of Parker's duties will be having a say in product development.
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UK challenger bank Monzo nabs another $190M as US expansion beckons
Monzo has raised another £150 million ($190 million), as the challenger bank looks to expand its presence internationally — particularly in the U.S. The new round comes just two months after Monzo raised £340 million ($425 million), meaning the London-based company has now raised north of $610 million in 2024, and $1.5 billion since its inception nine years ago. The first tranche of the Series I round saw Alphabet's CapitalG and Google's GV make a rare co-investment, alongside notable backers including HongShan Capital (formerly Sequoia Capital China), Passion Capital and Tencent.
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Checkfirst raises $1.5M pre-seed to apply AI to remote inspections and audits
Founder Ben Lambert realized just that, when after moving to Portugal, his wife’s property inspection business needed to be run remotely. Seeing an opportunity, Lambert founded an AI-powered workflow tools startup, Checkfirst, that, in addition to allowing for remote inspections, enables businesses to schedule inspectors based on geographical location and qualifications.
- TechCrunch
Meati Foods bites into another $100M amid growth to 7,000 retail locations
Canada-based Maia Farms recently raised $1.7 million to develop a blend of mushroom and plant-based protein using biomass fermentation. Then there’s Meati Foods, which claims it's like no other alternative protein. “It's truly a next generation revolutionary protein,” CEO Phil Graves told TechCrunch.
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Xona Space Systems closes $19M Series A to build out ultra-accurate GPS alternative
For decades, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has maintained a de facto monopoly on positioning, navigation and timing, because it’s cheap and already integrated into billions of devices around the world. The startup plans to launch a satellite constellation in low Earth orbit that would act as a commercial GPS alternative. Xona was founded in 2019 by seven Stanford graduate school alumni; most met during grad school.
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After a $20M Series A funding, Germany's Insempra plans eco-friendly lipid production
Lipids are fatty, waxy or oily compounds that, for instance, typically come in the form of fats and oils. As a result they are heavily used in the production of beauty products, as well as in fashion, and food industries. It’s now raised a $20 million Series A financing led by EQT Ventures.
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2025 BMW M4 CS arrives with more power, sharper handling
The new 2025 BMW M4 CS arrives packing more power, less weight and a new, certified Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit time of under 7:22.
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How to get a mortgage preapproval
A mortgage preapproval will give you a good idea of your home loan options, price range, and how much your monthly payment might be.
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Leasing vs. Buying a Car — Which is better?
Here's a guide on how to decide whether to lease or buy your next car.
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Copilot Chat in GitHub's mobile app is now generally available
GitHub on Tuesday announced that Copilot Chat, its AI chat interface for asking coding-related questions and code generation, is now generally available in its mobile app. At first glance, a mobile app may not be the most obvious place to use GitHub's Copilot Chat. As Mario Rodriguez, GitHub's recently promoted SVP of Product, told me, the mobile app is already very popular for performing tasks like starring repos and some of the social features GitHub has to offer.
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Hands-on with the new iPad Pro M4: Absurdly thin and light, but the screen steals the show
The new iPad Pro is shockingly slim and light, especially when you consider how powerful it is.
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Wiz raises $1B at a $12B valuation to expand its cloud security platform through acquisitions
Wiz, the buzzy startup building an all-in-one cloud security platform, is on an acquisition march to expand its business quickly en route to an IPO. The Series E -- co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive -- values Wiz at $12 billion, making it one of the most highly valued startups in cybersecurity today. It's a notable step up from the last time Wiz raised, in February 2023, when it closed a $300 million round at $10.3 billion post-money.
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Rad AI, a startup that helps radiologists save time on report generation, raises $50M Series B from Khosla Ventures
In 2017, Vinod Khosla told CNBC that the job "of the radiologist will be obsolete in five years." While the founder of Khosla Ventures later revised that timeline to as long as 15 years, he maintained that AI image recognition could soon diagnose disease on scans better than human doctors. Seven years later, radiologists are still required to interpret most scans (even if AI software helps them); the more immediate challenge is the shortage of these doctors in the United States and around the world.
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The 23 best gifts for your mother-in-law in 2024
Win her over with these thoughtful picks from Sephora, Uncommon Goods, Amazon and Walmart.