Waymo is coming to five more cities
engadget - Waymo is launching in five new cities across Texas and Florida. Autonomous vehicles in Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando will begin accepting rides next year.The Alphabet-owned company said operations (sans passengers) will begin on Tuesday…
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Jeff Bezos Launches $6.2B AI Startup Project Prometheus
Datamation Staff / datamation - The startup is aiming at the physical world with robotics-powered manufacturing that could reshape everything from spacecraft to computer chips.
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voize lands $50M to bring AI where it’s needed most: the nursing frontline
Cate Lawrence / tech - Nursing care company voize has raised $50 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Redalpine and Y Combinator. The global nursing ...
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Google rolls out new Gemini app design
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Google is rolling out a visual update to the Gemini app that introduces new design elements and color changes. This follows recent improvements to the app’s video generation capabilities and Gemini Live features. According to 9to5Google, the update brings…
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Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Dominic Preston / theverge - Jeff Bezos is getting a new job. He’ll reportedly become co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new startup that he’s partly funding. The company’s exact plans are still unknown, but its focus is on AI that could improve manufacturing in fields including computi…
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From guardrails to potholes, AI is becoming the new eyes on America's roads
techxplore - As America's aging roads fall further behind on much-needed repairs, cities and states are turning to artificial intelligence to spot the worst hazards and decide which fixes should come first.
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Lative Raises €6.4M To Expand AI-Powered Sales Planning Platform
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Dublin-based Lative, an AI-driven sales planning platform for sales and go-to-market teams, has raised €6.4 million to accelerate product development and expand its market reach. The funding round was co-led by Act Venture Capital and Senovo VC, with addi…
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Google’s NotebookLM will now do ‘deep research’
Elissa Welle / theverge - Google is pairing up two of its research products: NotebookLM and Gemini’s agentic AI tool Deep Research. On Thursday, the company announced that all users will have access to Deep Research in NotebookLM within a week. Google recently linked Deep Research…
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Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Google is expanding AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you about local inventory.
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Introw Raises $3M To Transform Partner Sales With AI
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Ghent-based tech startup Introw has raised $3 million in a funding round led by Visionaries Club, with ongoing support from PitchDrive. The company previously raised €1 million from PitchDrive and angel investors, including Pieterjan Bouten (ex-Showpad) a…
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Russia's AI Robot Falls Seconds After Being Unveiled
BeauHD / slashdot - Russia's first AI humanoid robot, Aldol, fell just seconds after its debut at a technology event in Moscow on Tuesday. "The robot was being led on stage to the soundtrack from the film 'Rocky,' before it suddenly lost its balance and fell," reports the BB…
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Waymo begins offering freeway robotaxi rides in San Francisco, LA and Phoenix
cnbc - The Google sister company has been testing robotaxi freeway rides with employees for more than a year.
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B2B sales lose 65% of time to admin – Sweden’s Spiich Labs raises €600k to automate it
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Stockholm’s Spiich Labs, a startup developing an agent-first AI assistant, today announced a €600k pre-Seed funding round to eliminate 8+ hours of weekly administrative work. The round was led by Ampli Ventures, with backing from founders of Lovable, Tand…
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CERPRO secures €2M pre-seed to set a new manufacturing quality standard
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Berlin-based CERPRO, a startup for industrial quality assurance, hasraised around €2 million in a pre-seed funding round. The round was led by seed+speed Ventures, with D11Z as co-lead, and participat...
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Delvitech Raises $40M To Expand AI-Driven Optical Inspection Technology
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Swiss deeptech company Delvitech has secured $40 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by EGS Beteiligungen (EGSB), the investment arm of the Ernst Göhner Foundation, alongside CREADD Ventures with additional participation from several pr…
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“Literal AI Spam Machine”: Google’s Opal Tool Comes Under Fire
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google faces backlash for marketing its new AI tool, Opal, for creating 'scalable' content, a practice that appears to violate its own anti-spam search policies.The post “Literal AI Spam Machine”: Google’s Opal Tool Comes Under Fire appeared first on WinB…
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Arkyn receives €4M financing to accelerate growth and expand product suite
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Copenhagen-based enterprise software company Arkyn has closed a €4 million financinground co-led by Compounding Capital and Trifork Labs. As part of the round,Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard, owner of Comp...
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Amazon is Testing an AI Tool That Automatically Translates Books Into Other Languages
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon just introduced an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. The appropriately-named Kindle Translate is being advertised as a resource for authors that self publish on the platform. …
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Google Maps integrates Gemini for hands-free navigation
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Google is integrating its Gemini AI assistant into Google Maps, replacing the existing Assistant to enable hands-free, conversational navigation. This upgrade allows users to interact naturally while driving and is rolling out to Android and iOS devices i…
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IKEA announces new Matter-compatible smart home products
Sarah Fielding / engadget - IKEA has officially announced its range of Matter-compatible smart home products. The Swedish furniture store is releasing 21 new items under the tentpoles of lighting, sensors and control. IKEA teased these releases back in July. Part of the roll out wil…
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