Doctors complain of IT ‘in the stone age’
The United Kingdom’s NHS — the world’s largest public health service — is working on creaking IT infrastructure. In any sector, that’s a ticking time bomb. But when you consider…
Kenya’s Octavia gets $3.9M seed to remove carbon from air
As calls for urgent climate action persist, technologies to help remove the heat-trapping greenhouse gases from the atmosphere are also emerging globally. In Africa, Octavia Carbon, a Direct Air Capture…
Long careers in luxury fashion led to a $17M raise for this supply chain platform
The retail sector needs Inventory planning to maintain margins and meet demand. This is getting harder because there are now many distribution channels, more complex supply chains, and shorter sales…
Google AI Research Examines Random Circuit Sampling (RCS) for Evaluating Quantum Computer Performance in the Presence of Noise
Quantum computers are a revolutionary technology that harnesses the principles of quantum mechanics to perform calculations that would be infeasible for classical computers. Evaluating the performance of quantum computers has…
Support automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions
David Karandish has been busy. Capacity, his support automation company, was planning a $5 million “bridge round” to help the company reach the break-even point. But TVC Capital, Toloka.vc, and…
Law Insider Acquires oneNDA in Contract Standards Move
Law Insider, ‘the world’s largest public contract database’, has acquired oneNDA, the contract standards pioneer which initially addressed Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs). As part of the …
Nordic entrepreneur-led VC firm Node.vc closes €71 million first fund
From Switzerland’s Founderful to Italians Founders Fund and the Dutch Operator Fund, a new crop of European VC firms claim to operate as “entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs.” Although it might still…
Orthrus: A Mamba-based RNA Foundation Model Designed to Push the Boundaries of RNA Property Prediction
Despite the vast accumulation of genomic data, the RNA regulatory code must still be better understood. Genomic foundation models, pre-trained on large datasets, can adapt RNA representations for biological prediction…
Thinking LLMs: How Thought Preference Optimization Transforms Language Models to Perform Better Across Logic, Marketing, and Creative Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) have evolved to become powerful tools capable of understanding and responding to user instructions. Based on the transformer architecture, these models predict the next word or…
The woman who filmed Waymo’s honking robotaxis got an apology promo—then spent all day using it
Sophia Tung set up a livestream this past summer, showing self-driving Waymo cars honking from the San Francisco parking lot near her apartment at all hours of the night. As…