Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’
“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch.
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August Launches Self-Serve + Video Tutorial Academy
Legal AI platform, August, is launching a self-serve capability for all customers. The move should accelerate sign-ups and onboarding for the fast-growing startup. Meanwhile, they’ve …
7 Under-the-Radar Python Libraries for Scalable Feature Engineering
This article lists 7 under-the-radar Python libraries that push the boundaries of feature engineering processes at scale.
Pinterest to lay off 15% of staff to redirect resources to AI
Pinterest says it’s “reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and teams that drive AI adoption and execution” and “prioritizing AI‑powered products and capabilities.”
Luminar receives a larger $33 million bid for its lidar business
A new leading bidder has appeared in the Luminar bankruptcy case: Redmond, Washington-based MicroVision, which beat out Quantum Computing Inc.’s bid by $5 million.
China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent
The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.
Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures
Flora’s node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.
This Humanoid Is Ready to Bring You a Toothbrush
Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers.
Kira Upgrades + Litera and AL Webinar – March 3rd
Contract AI stalwart, Kira, which has long been part of Litera, is getting a bunch of upgrades. Meanwhile, here’s one for your diary: a new …
How Automated NLP Pipelines Cut Oncology Data Abstraction from Weeks to Hours
Abhijit Nayak, Senior Data Scientist at Cognizant and IEEE conference speaker, discusses building production-grade information extraction systems for cancer research and why domain expertise matters more than model size. A…