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Rivian overhauled the R1S and R1T to entice new buyers ahead of cheaper R2 launch
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J.D. Power found that buyers are so tied to Tesla's Supercharger experience that any negative trend in reliability or availability could hurt its vehicle sales.
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Fintech Torpago has a unique way to compete with Brex and Ramp: turning banks into customers
Fintechs often give banks a run for their money, pun intended, when it comes to using technology to improve the customer experience. Torpago, a commercial credit card and spend management provider, is no different, but with one caveat — banks are who it builds technology for, particularly community banks. It’s true, Torpago is often grouped with companies like Brex, Mercury and Ramp, all of whom Torpago founder and CEO Brent Jackson said are high-profile card and spend management platforms who have “done amazing jobs.”
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Sirion, now valued around $1B, acquires Eigen as consolidation comes to enterprise AI tooling
There's a lot of buzz about generative AI and what impact it might have on businesses. Now, one of the early movers in this space — Sirion Labs, a specialist in contracts — is acquiring another enterprise AI pioneer, Eigen Technologies, which focuses on parsing and extracting insights and data from documents in verticals like insurance, finance and law. Currently, companies are opting for simpler, one-stop-shops rather than multiple point solutions for their IT needs, leading to consolidation among those building the latter.
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Prolific Machines, with a $55M Series B, shines ‘light’ on a better way to grow lab proteins for food and medicine
Two years ago, Prolific Machines unveiled its technology for a unique manufacturing approach to grow cells for industries, including cultivated meat. Deniz Kent, Max Huisman and Declan Jones started the company in 2020 to focus on more efficient and sustainable ways to manufacture food and medicine. This would involve growing and controlling cells without the need for expensive recombinant proteins for cell production.
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Greptile raises $4M to build an AI-fueled code base expert
When you look at how generative AI is being implemented across developer tools, the focus for the most part has been on generating code, as with Github Copilot. Greptile, an early stage startup from a group of recent Georgia Tech grads, decided to take a different approach: using AI to help developers understand the code base. Greptile CEO and co-founder Daksh Gupta says the Greptile bot is like having a highly experienced coworker who has a deep understanding of your code.
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'Pathetic': Only 7 EV charging sites deployed so far under $5B federal program
Just seven electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations have begun operating with funding from a $5-billion U.S. government program created in 2021, marking "pathetic" progress, a Democratic senator said on Wednesday.
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Google's new startup program focuses on bringing AI to public infrastructure
Google's newest startup program, announced on Wednesday, aims to bring AI technology to the public sector. The newly launched "Google for Startups AI Academy: American Infrastructure" will offer participants hands-on training from AI experts and other support for companies solving problems in areas like agriculture, energy, education, public safety, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, urban development, and more. Over the course of 12 weeks, startups in the equity-free program will be guided by an AI curriculum developed by Google's People + AI Research (PAIR) team and will participate in advanced sales and go-to-market workshops.
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Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang is coming to Disrupt 2024
The early victors in the AI gold rush are selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence. The San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2016, developed software that labels image, text, voice and video data used by companies to train machine learning models. Scale AI got its start supplying companies like Nuro and Zoox with the labeled data needed to train machine learning models for autonomous vehicles.
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14 thoughts about the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq, the car that's excited to see you
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What comes next in Trump's legally perilous path through 2024
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Skydance's Behemoth brings giant climbable monster fights to VR
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Storyblok raises $80M to add more AI to its ‘headless’ CMS aimed at non-technical people
If content is king, then the focus today is on how the king is expanding the empire: Print and traditional media first got augmented by websites, and now websites are being augmented by a fast-expanding landscape of apps, social media platforms and content created by artificial intelligence. Now a company that’s building for that content horizon has raised a big round of funding to expand its business. Storyblok, a startup out of Linz, Austria, that provides a content management system (CMS) for organizations built around the "headless" concept, has closed a Series C round of $80 million.
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The best wireless CarPlay adapters of 2024
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Shopify acquires Checkout Blocks, a checkout customization app
Commerce platform Shopify has acquired Checkout Blocks, allowing Shopify Plus merchants to make no-code customizations in their checkout to enhance customer experience and potentially boost sales. Checkout Blocks, which debuted on Shopify in September 2022, lets merchants customize their checkout by adding things such as AI recommendations, custom content (like information banners, images, headlines, and more), custom fields (such as gift messages or delivery notes), discounts, email address validation, personalized order status and thank you pages, and more.