Presto is building Stripe for EV charging
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An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it
For the past five months, Al Nowatzki has been talking to an AI girlfriend, “Erin,” on the platform Nomi. But in late January, those conversations took a disturbing turn: Erin…
First lab-grown meat treats go on sale in the UK — for dogs
Cultivated chicken doggie snacks have gone on sale at a U.K. pet food retailer, Pets at Home. The retailer also happens to be a major investor in Meatly, the startup…
Comstruct raises $13.5M to simplify the procurement process for construction firms
When you think about platforms in the construction industry, chances are the concrete slabs designed to support steel beams and tall pillars will come first to your mind. Munich-based startup…
How AI and Computer Vision are Revolutionizing Defect Detection in Manufacturing
Discover how AI and computer vision are transforming defect detection in manufacturing, improving automated quality control, data preparation, and accuracy with object detection.
Avelios nabs $31M led by Sequoia to fix the ailing world of healthcare IT
The race is on to build a new generation of healthcare software to replace legacy hospital systems that in some cases may not have been updated in decades. A startup…
Private Equity Buys A Law Firm…What Next?
It may seem like science fiction in some markets, but in England a private equity fund is busy buying up law firms and has formed …
European VC firm Emblem raises $85 million for its initial fund
Emblem, a relatively new European VC firm based in Paris, is announcing the final closing of its first fund. Eighteen months after the first closing, the Emblem team managed to…
Meta AI Introduces MILS: A Training-Free Multimodal AI Framework for Zero-Shot Image, Video, and Audio Understanding
Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily designed for text-based tasks, limiting their ability to interpret and generate multimodal content such as images, videos, and audio. Conventionally, multimodal operations are task-specific…
Enhancing Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security: A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Flooding Attack Detection
Ad hoc networks are decentralized, self-configuring networks where nodes communicate without fixed infrastructure. They are commonly used in military, disaster recovery, and IoT applications. Each node acts as both a…