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Like most good startup stories, Harbor began life as a product of disappointment. Kevin Lavelle, the co-founder and CEO of innovative clothing company Mizzen and Main, couldn’t find a baby…

Harbor is building a better baby monitor and an army of night nannies

There’s ample opportunity in the form of a mobile billboard. Kiwibot is so convinced of this fact that it plunked down $25 million to purchase Nickelytics.

Kiwibot acquires an ad startup to turn its delivery robots into mobile billboards

In many meetings today, it sometimes feels like there are more AI notetaking and transcription bots than people. There are seemingly dozens of options to choose from these days, but…

The startup will use turbomachinery to develop a heat pump capable of generating industrial-grade heat.

Karman Industries hopes its SpaceX-inspired heat pumps will replace industrial boilers

The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will see it instructing the iPhone maker on how to comply with…

EU to tell Apple how to do interoperability, DMA style

Growing up in the Hunter Valley, a region of Australia renowned for its fine wine production, Mitchel Fowler never realized he might one day think of an idea that could…

This founder grew up in wine country — now he’s built a platform for wine makers

Picus Security, which runs continuous validation processes to root out and fix inconsistencies in code, has raised $45 million in a Series C round.

Picus Security, founded by 3 Turkish mathematicians, raises $45M after simulating 1B cyber attacks

With an explosion of weather and climate data that the last generation of tools can’t handle, is AI the future of forecasting? Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded…

Brightband sees a bright (and open-source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting

A final report by the UN’s high level advisory body on artificial intelligence makes for, at times, a surreal read. Named ‘Governing AI for Humanity’, the document underlines the contradictory…

AI governance can’t be left to the vested interests

The startup is taking a different approach to removing carbon dioxide from the air than most of its competitors.

Phlair’s carbon sucking technology could lower direct air capture’s costs

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The governing body overseeing India’s popular UPI payments rail is considering increasing its proposed market share cap for operators like Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm.

India weighs easing market share limits for UPI payment operators

Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is back in the headset business — in a sense.…

Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military tech

Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Hyundai, is shaking up its leadership ranks. Karl Iagnemma, an early pioneer in the autonomous vehicle industry whose startup Nutonomy lies at the…

CEO of self-driving startup Motional is stepping down

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a growing threat from foreign governments, he tells the WSJ. Half…

Craig Newmark pledges $100M to fight hacking by foreign governments

Ashraf Hebela, J.P. Morgan’s Head of Startup Banking, may sit on the finance side of startups these days. But he once sat in the founder…

JP Morgan’s head of startup banking says ‘Founder Mode’ won’t get you a unicorn

The company is in various stages of developing and piloting a range of initiatives focused on dealing with bad actors, harassment, spam, fake accounts, video safety, and more.

Bluesky addresses trust and safety concerns around abuse, spam, and more

Fal.ai, a dev-focused platform for AI-generated audio, video, and images, today revealed that it’s raised $23 million in funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Black Forest Labs co-founder Robin…

Fal.ai, which hosts media-generating AI models, raises $23M from a16z and others

A House committee overwhelmingly voted to approve a bill that would require new cars to be built with AM radio at no additional cost to the owner. The AM for…

Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law

The Vive Focus Vision has enough firepower under the hood to appeal to PC gamers tethered via the DisplayPort.

HTC takes on Apple’s Vision Pro and PC Gaming with $1,000 Vive Focus Vision

The reversal comes as EV startup Fisker prepares to enter the fourth month of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.

Fisker reverses course on making Ocean owners pay for recall repairs