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Also has raised another $150 million as the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian last year expands its business beyond pedal-assist electric bikes and commercial cargo quads to autonomous delivery vehicles. The Series D round was led by Prysm Capital and included existing backers Eclipse, Greenoaks, and MVP Ventures.
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Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first majority since it began asking in 2021, with 73% expecting fewer jobs. A European Commission survey found displacement fears highest among younger, lower-income and less-educated workers. Americans under 30 have changed their
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Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon quietly owns a slice of the company that will run them. The Swedish electric-trucking firm said on Tuesday it will deploy the 500 electric big rigs for Amazon and other customers. It called the order the largest Tesla Semi deployment in the
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Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the latest AI unicorn. ICONIQ led the Series C, the company told Fortune in an exclusive. Nick Lichtenberg reported the deal. It is Rillet’s third raise in 14 months. The backers
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Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in minutes. It published the two experiments on Tuesday. The company reported the results itself. It framed them as early evidence that Claude can speed up parts of drug development. Anthropic shared the work on its
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Grant Lee still remembers the investor’s verdict. “Yeah, so the investor said it was the worst idea he had ever heard”. The call came in 2020, when Grant Lee and co-founders Jon Noronha and James Fox started Gamma in San Francisco. Six years later, that “worst idea” is a
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* Versa is the world's first 2-in-1 pocket gimbal camera and drone * It launched on Indiegogo on August 18, with prices starting at $499 * HoverAir says Versa has FCC approval, so should be available in the US DJI dominates the drone space, leaving precious little room for others. However,
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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XO5 Labs founder Dominik Sieczka is aiming to make sharing a room with a EufyMake E1 ultraviolet (UV) printer a little more pleasant with a custom enclosure designed to filter out its fumes while reducing UV light leakage: the 3D-printable LumiMask. "The EufyMake E1 is an incredible machine that
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Modern internet-connected devices rarely sit idle. Even when you're not actively using your phone, laptop, or smart home gadgets, they're frequently communicating with servers around the world. Those exchanges usually happen silently, leaving users with little idea of what information is being sent or where it&
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it’s pausing the research and development of its newest AI models. This is a big course reversal for the firm, which has maintained that it can mitigate the significant cybersecurity risks posed by new AI models. “As models become more capable, the
