From coffee beans to milk, this Singapore based startup uses AI to determine ingredient quality

From coffee beans to milk, this Singapore-based startup uses AI to determine ingredient quality

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China’s largest coffee chain plans to take on Starbucks in US

Luckin Coffee’s expansion into rival’s home market comes five years after company was delisted from Nasdaq and fined

Business - Financial Times - October 29

Generative AI grows 17% in 2024, but data quality plummets: Key findings from Appen’s State of AI Report

Appen’s 2024 State of AI report reveals surging generative AI adoption, but companies face growing challenges with data quality, bottlenecks, and declining ROI in AI deployments.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 22

New York Times to Bezos-Backed AI Startup: Stop Using Our Stuff

Publisher demands that Perplexity stop accessing its content. Startup isn’t interested “in being anyone’s antagonist,” CEO says.

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - October 15

This Robotics AI ‘Brain’ Startup Just Raised $400 Million From Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, and Others

Physical Intelligence, now valued at about $2 billion, aims to create AI models that can power robots.

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Business - Inc. - October 17

US imposes strict limits on dust from lead-based paint to protect children

More than 30m homes are thought to contain lead paint, including nearly 4m where children under age of six live. Two weeks after setting a nationwide deadline for removal of lead pipes, the Biden ...

World - The Guardian - October 24

Amazon is using tech from a Khosla Ventures-backed startup to run robot warehouses at Whole Foods

Fulfil's technology will enable shoppers to purchase items that are not stocked at Whole Foods, such as Coca-Cola soda and Kellogg's cereals.

Business - CNBC - October 15

Tensions erupt over US audit quality

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse publicly clash with accounting regulator Christina Ho

World - Financial Times - 4 days ago

8 Life-Changing Benefits of Coffee From 9 Key Scientific Studies

Research shows coffee can make you healthier, smarter, and more productive. (And if you don’t like coffee, sometimes other sources of caffeine will do.)

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US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’

Heliospect’s services were marketed at up to $50,000 for 100 embryos, undercover footage shows. What is genomic prediction and can embryos really be ‘screened for IQ’? A US startup company is ...

World - The Guardian - October 18

Key races could determine US energy policy

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Politics - The Hill - October 30

Wall Street Journal, NY Post sue AI startup

Media conglomerate News Corp, the conglomerate that owns the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and a number of other media properties, is suing artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity over ...

Politics - The Hill - October 22

AI startup Ideogram launches infinite Canvas for manipulating, combining generated images

Users can spread newly generated images out, compare them to older ones, resize and reorder them at will, and even combine two with AI.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 22

Mother of Teen Who Died by Suicide Sues AI Startup

The boy, 14, spent months talking to an artificial character on Character.AI before becoming depressed. His mother blames the company, saying the tech shouldn’t be accessible to minors.

Business - Inc. - October 24

Google's partnership with AI startup Anthropic faces a UK competition investigation

Britain’s competition watchdog is opening a formal investigation into Google’s partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic

Tech - ABC News - October 24

Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra raises funding at $4.5 billion valuation

Sierra, the startup founded by ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, has raised a fresh round of capital that values the company at $4.5 billion.

Business - CNBC - October 28

Meet the startup that just won the Pentagon’s first AI defense contract

The Pentagon awards its first-ever generative AI defense contract worth $1.8M to Jericho Security, targeting deepfake attacks and AI-powered threats against military personnel including drone pilots.

Tech - VentureBeat - 3 days ago

AI Startup Perplexity to Triple Valuation to $9 Billion in New Funding Round

The artificial intelligence search company is raising $500 million in its fourth funding round this year.

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - 2 days ago

Venice in three ingredients

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World - Financial Times - October 19

Microsoft's GitHub expands beyond OpenAI, lets developers use AI models from Anthropic, Google

GitHub is giving software developers more choices for its popular coding assistant, meaning they won't be limited to models from OpenAI.

Business - CNBC - October 29

How X users can earn thousands from US election misinformation and AI images

The accounts are part of pro-Trump and pro-Harris networks sharing each other’s content multiple times a day.

Job Seekers Are Using AI to Fight AI

Job-seeking AI might help humans win the battle, but it may cost us the war.

Business - Inc. - October 18

Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth

British-born Simon Johnson and James A Robinson and Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu share £810,000 prize . Three US-based professors, including two UK-born academics, have been awarded this year’s ...

World - The Guardian - October 14

Iranian general charged in plot to murder US-based dissident journalist

Justice department says eight were charged ‘for their efforts to silence and kill a US citizen because of her criticism of the Iranian regime’. A general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has been ...

World - The Guardian - October 22

Lee Kuan Yew's youngest son says the UK has granted him asylum from persecution in Singapore

Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, says he is now a “political refugee” after the British government granted him asylum from what he described ...

World - ABC News - October 22

Scissor Sisters spill the beans on their comeback

The colourful pop band are reuniting to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album.

Satellite images show damage from Israeli attack at Iranian military bases

There were no Israeli strikes on Iran's oil industry, nor its nuclear enrichment sites or its nuclear power plant at Bushehr.

Generative AI startups get 40% of all VC investment in cloud amid ChatGPT buzz

Venture capital firm Accel says that funding for cloud startups is set to rise 27% in 2024 thanks to a boost from AI — the first year of growth in three years.

Business - CNBC - October 16

AI Startup Perplexity in Funding Talks to More Than Double Valuation to $8 Billion

The search-based chatbot is seeking to raise around $500 million in what would be its fourth funding round in a year.

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - October 20

AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others

Available under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, Mochi 1 offers users free access to cutting-edge video generation capabilities...

Tech - VentureBeat - October 22

Huuuge social casino veteran unveils AI-focused Beyond startup and Decor Society

Huuuge founder Anton Gauffin has started Beyond, which is building a fashion game called Decor Society tapping generative AI.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 24

Here’s How a Startup Landed $10 Million to Put AI Data Centers in Space

The massive banks of computers needed to power artificial intelligence apps require huge amounts of electricity on Earth. Lumen Orbit wants to send them into the heavens instead.

Business - Inc. - October 25

OpenAI Chair’s AI Startup Sierra Gets $4.5 Billion Valuation in Latest Funding Round

Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s company keeps pulling in money from top VC firms as expectations mount.

Business - Inc. - October 29

AI startup funding hit a record in L.A. area last quarter. Here's who got the most money

L.A.-area startups received $1.8 billion in the third quarter, the highest quarterly amount for the region, according to CB Insights. Most of it went to a single company.

Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 8 hours ago

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