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Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt

Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it ra

$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups

This morning on Equity, we have good news for crypto founders, notes on Akamai's $450M acquisition of Noname, and billion-dollar deals from Wiz and Wayve.

Google Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app

Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not only more accurate, bu

Uber promises member exclusives as Uber One passes $1B run-rate

Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions.  “You will see more member-exclusives coming up where member

Checkfirst raises $1.5M pre-seed to apply AI to remote inspections and audits

Checkfirst enables businesses to schedule inspectors based on geographical location and qualifications, in addition to allowing for remote inspections.

Controversial drone company Xtend leans into defense with new $40M round

Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded Replay, a company that created a video format for 360-degree replays — the sorts of replays that have become part and parcel of

Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste

The startup's fungi use their mycelium to consume oil-based rubbers and plastics, creating new bio-based materials in the process.

UK challenger bank Monzo nabs another $190M as US expansion beckons

Monzo has raised another £150 million ($190 million), as the challenger bank looks to expand its presence internationally — particularly in the U.S.

iRobot names former Timex head Gary Cohen as CEO

iRobot Tuesday announced the successor to longtime CEO, Colin Angle. Gary Cohen, who previous held chief executive role at Timex and Qualitor Automotive, will be heading up the company, marking a majo

Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI

Reddit — now a publicly-traded company with more scrutiny on revenue growth — is putting a big focus on boosting its international audience, starting with francophones. In their first-ever

Meati Foods bites into another $100M amid growth to 7,000 retail locations

Meati Foods is adding 2,000 retail locations within Kroger’s family of stores by April. Three products will be available, including the Classic cutlet as well as Classic and Carne Asada steaks.

Lucid Bots secures $9M for drones to clean more than your windows

The robotics company builds intelligent robots that are purpose-made to tackle the “dirty” jobs that people don’t want to do.

Israeli startup Panax raises a $10M Series A for its AI-driven cash flow management platform

While visualizing cash flow is helpful, Panax wants to go further than providing a dashboard and help finance teams manage treasury, Panax CEO Noam Mills told TechCrunch.

EU grills Elon Musk’s X about content moderation and deepfake risks

The EU has deepened its investigation of X under its online governance and content moderation rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Atlan scores $105M for its data control plane, as LLMs boost importance of data

For the founders of Atlan, a data governance startup, data has always been at the heart of what they do, even before they launched the company. In fact, co-founders Prukalpa Sankar and Varun Banka got

Axmed raises $2M from Founderful to streamline drug supply chains in underserved markets

The seed funding follows a $5M grant the startup got from the Gates Foundation to make maternal and child healthcare available in high-priority countries.

Xona Space Systems closes $19M Series A to build out ultra-accurate GPS alternative

For decades, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has maintained a de facto monopoly on positioning, navigation and timing, because it’s cheap and already integrated into billions of devices around t

FTX crypto fraud victims to get their money back — plus interest

Bankruptcy lawyers representing customers impacted by the dramatic crash of cryptocurrency exchange FTX 17 months ago say that the vast majority of victims will receive their money back — plus

Google Wallet is now available in India

Google Wallet has debuted in India as the company’s digital wallet for non-payment use cases — two years after it was launched in the U.S.

Bluesky to add DMs, video support and in-app custom feed curation

The social network said it is planning to introduce direct messages, support for videos, improved custom feeds, and new moderation controls.
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