NATO backs its first cohort of European dual-use startups
With both Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth making loud noises Friday about Europe stepping up to the plate in spending more on its own defense,…
US pharma giant Merck backs healthcare marketplace HD in Southeast Asia
Big Tech and pharmaceutical companies are accelerating the implementation of artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry. Just last month, AWS and General Catalyst announced their partnership to speed up the…
Accel backs Indian AI startup building ‘ChatGPT for presentations’
Presentations.ai, an Indian startup that uses AI to help companies quickly generate presentation decks, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Accel to scale its software that…
Sony backs down on PlayStation Network login requirement for PC games
Sony made a lot of PC gamers happy when it started bringing some choice PlayStation-exclusive franchises to the PC…then made a lot of them angry by requiring a PlayStation Network…
Priyanka Chopra Backs Oscar-Shortlisted Film Anuja as Executive Producer
Priyanka Chopra Jonas has come on board Anuja, a film shortlisted for the Oscars 2025. It is made by the husband-wife team Adam J. Graves (director) and Suchitra Mattai (producer).…
Microsoft backs its $3B AI push in India with public and private sector deals
Microsoft announced a sweeping series of artificial intelligence partnerships across India’s core sectors on Wednesday, a day after pledging to invest $3 billion in the country over the next two…
Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform
A new company is emerging from stealth today with backing from Google’s AI-focused venture fund to help businesses compile their open-source AI infrastructure and reduce their engineering overheads. Cake integrates…
Mitsubishi backs Ample’s radical approach to charging EV batteries
Startup Ample is on a mission to convert commercial fleets into believers in the power of electric vehicle battery swapping technology. The company has spent the last three years piloting…
This generative AI startup is strapping cameras to people’s backs
A startup is training an AI model that it claims will enable creators to generate cinematic worlds, with complete control over the scenery, characters, lighting, and motion. How? By having…
Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures backs Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in continued AI push
Ashton Kutcher’s VC firm, Sound Ventures, co-led by general partners Guy Oseary and Effie Epstein, is betting on AI — including with an investment in Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, the…