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Apptronik, which makes humanoid robots, raises $350M as category heats up Feb 17, 2025

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Apptronik, a University of Texas spin-out that was quietly building humanoid robots before it became quite so fashionable, on Thursday announced a $350 million Series A round of financing. B Capital and Capital Factory co-led the round, which also featured participation from Googl

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Avride launches sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats in Jersey City Feb 17, 2025

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Uber Eats customers in Jersey City can now have their orders delivered by one of Avride’s autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. The launch, which kicked off this week in New Jersey, is Uber’s latest foray into autonomous vehicles and represents an expanding relationship with Avride.

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No-code app builder Softr expands beyond Airtable databases Feb 14, 2025

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If you’re working for a small company and want to build a client portal or an internal tool, it can be difficult to find the budget and resources to allocate a developer to that small project.

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SpotDraft taps AI to help streamline contract management Feb 14, 2025

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More and more legal professionals are embracing AI, surveys show. Per a recent poll from legaltech company Clio, 79% of firms used some form of AI for casework last year, up from just 19% in 2023.

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Chestnut Carbon gets $160M to turn old farms into forests Feb 13, 2025

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The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.

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Voyantis aims to help companies figure out their customers’ worth Feb 13, 2025

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How much is a customer worth to a company? That’s the eternal question. To arrive at an answer, customer and sales teams are often forced to use spreadsheets and other manual data analysis methods. The problem is, these methods tend to be slow and error-prone, leading to gaps in reporting processes.

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Archer Aviation doubles down on defense aircraft with fresh $300M Feb 12, 2025

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Escalating geopolitical tensions and a new administration with a hawkish defense agenda has led many startups to embrace dual-use strategies to secure revenue through military applications. And it’s a trend that is already heating up in aerospace.

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3D mood board and marketplace Mattoboard picks up $2M to launch AI visual search Feb 12, 2025

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Mattoboard, the makers of web-based software designed to simplify the creative process for interior designers and architects, is getting into AI. On Tuesday, the startup announced its $2 million seed funding round, which will support the launch of a new feature called Design Stream, an AI-driven visual search and discovery tool.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed Feb 11, 2025

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In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed.

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PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development Feb 11, 2025

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The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt engineering — i.e., coming up with instructions to precisely steer an AI chatbot to serve useful output.

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