Activewear company Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round raised by Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, whose properties make it both too good to give up but hard to reuse. Syntetica promises to recycle two types of nylon — Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 —…
Applied Computing, a London-based startup that’s building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating. Founded in 2023, the startup targets oil, gas, refining and petrochemical systems, where a single facility can have thousands of sensors…
OpenAI is formally getting into the {hardware} market with the launch of a $230 light-up keyboard designed to pair with its AI coding assistant, Codex. The Codex Micro, co-designed with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder, is being marketed as a elaborate new method for ChatGPT customers to handle their fleets of AI coding brokers —…
Microsoft seems to be prepping its gross sales workforce to get extra aggressive with the opposite main gamers within the AI business. At an inner assembly on Tuesday, the corporate’s executives outlined a plan for salespeople to negatively examine AI merchandise from corporations like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to its personal, based on a new…
Whereas many top-tier enterprise companies maintain elevating massively bigger funds, Greylock Ventures, one of many oldest and most prestigious enterprise companies in Silicon Valley, is deliberately resisting the pattern of ballooning fund sizes. On Tuesday, the 61-year-old agency introduced that it had raised a $1.5 billion 18th fund. The quantity is 50% larger than its…
Pondering Machines Lab, a synthetic intelligence firm began by exiles from OpenAI, has launched its first mannequin, known as Inkling. The startup’s new mannequin is open-weight, which implies that researchers and startups will be capable of obtain and modify it. In a a blog post, the corporate says Inkling was skilled from scratch to make…
For those who assume a synthetic intelligence mannequin working on hundreds of cutting-edge laptop chips is sensible, permit me to introduce you to the idea of a 1-year-old. OK, so infants won’t have the ability to write laptop applications, clear up superior math issues, or debate philosophical concepts. However in contrast to immediately’s AI fashions,…
A German research consortium has published the pretraining report for Soofi S 30B-A3B. It is an open base model for German and English. Training ran end to end on Deutsche Telekom’s Industrial AI Cloud in Munich. Preview weights are on Hugging Face. It is worth noting that among some of the fully open base models…
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) said Wednesday that the driving force of a Tesla who crashed right into a home in June had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, overriding the corporate’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software program. Knowledge recovered from the Tesla confirmed that the car was touring greater than 70 miles per hour…
Neko Health, the body-scanning and health assessment startup founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek (pictured above, right) and his co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (above, left), has raised a $700 million Series C. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and O.G. Venture Partners. This follows the company’s $260 million Series B raised in January 2025. Neko…
