Breathe lands $21M Series B to predict battery performance
Few markets are moving as rapidly as China’s automotive sector. There, new models are rolled out in as little as 18 months, putting tremendous pressure on legacy Western automakers, which…
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Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup
As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning libraries. During his time there, Valkov realized that artificial intelligence “was about…
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Microsoft’s worst software flop was secretly lurking in Windows for years
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AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows
AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new…
Sonos appoints software veteran Hugo Barra to its board, replacing Mike Volpi, who is stepping down after 15 years; Barra is the head of product at /dev/agents (Chris Welch/The Verge)
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Autonomous driving startup Wayve will install its Level 2 advanced driver assistance software in Nissan’s vehicles from 2027, its first global carmaker deal (Financial Times)
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It’s the end of the road for the Galaxy S20 series as Samsung ends software updates
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Rescale, which develops engineering software to help simulate complex physical systems, raised a $115M Series D, bringing its total funding to over $260M (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
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