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Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield win Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in foundational AI

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024. Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield are jointly sharing the prestigious award for their work on artificial neural networks starting back in the late 1970s and early … Continue reading

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Lithios takes inspiration from battery manufacturing to mine lithium from salty water

Lithios is part of a fresh crop of startups is trying to meet the booming demand for lithium by extracting it from subsurface brines. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Uber gives users option to only hail full-electric cars, launches AI chatbot for EV-curious drivers

Uber announced a spate of fresh measures to update its sustainability features globally, including an “EV preference” for ride-hailers .

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‘Godfather of AI’ shares Nobel Physics Prize

Two scientists share the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on machine learning.

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Uber to launch OpenAI-powered AI assistant to answer driver EV questions

Uber is continuing its push to bring more electric vehicles onto the ride-hail and delivery platform, and it thinks giving drivers a chatbot to answer all their EV questions will help. Starting early 2025, Uber will launch an AI assistant for … Continue reading

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Former Humane execs secure $25 million valuation after departing AI hardware startup

Two former Humane executives have raised $4 million in seed funding for Infactory, their new AI venture, at a $25 million valuation.

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Open source BI platform Lightdash gets Accel’s backing to bring AI to business intelligence

Lightdash, a business intelligence (BI) platform and open source alternative to Google’s Looker, is lifting the lid on a new product that allows companies to train “AI analysts” specific to individual teams’ use-cases, enabling anyone in a company to query … Continue reading

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Revyze, a ‘TikTok for education’ startup, draws on Duolingo to add bite-sized learning too

Middle and high schoolers are both the easiest and most difficult audience. If you’re developing a neat little video game, chances are they’re willing to download it right away. But if, like the team behind Revyze, you’re working on a … Continue reading

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French biotech Generare speeds up hunt for new drugs by cloning natural molecules

French biotech startup Generare has closed a €5 million seed round (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates) to step up development of what it touts as a highly scalable approach to identifying promising compounds for drug discovery that already … Continue reading

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Apple could launch a ring to rival Samsung by 2026, research firm predicts

Apple could launch a connected ring to rival Samsung by 2026, according to CCS Insight, adding to the U.S. tech giant’s focus on health.

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