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After selling his startup to IBM, this founder wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data Dec 06, 2024

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Not everyone agrees on what an “AI agent” actually is, but they are all still the rage. At a broad level, these so-called “agents” promise to go several steps beyond a mere chatbot, making decisions and taking actions on people’s behalf.

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Twos to-do app adds a feature that automatically adds a suggested action against a task Dec 06, 2024

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The overarching promise of companies working on AI-powered productivity tools is to build solutions that would do a task for you. Some of the early demos that we have seen don’t really fare well in fulfilling those promises. A to-do list app called Twos is approaching this problem differently.

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This ex-Scale AI leader built a platform to automatically extracts insights from customer feedback Dec 05, 2024

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In this hyperconnected world we live in, it’s easier than ever to send feedback to the companies we patronize. But just because businesses offer more ways to get in touch doesn’t mean they’re poring over every comment. According to a 2020 survey from Productboard, 90% of companies fail to successfully capture feedback from all channels.

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Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform Dec 05, 2024

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A new company is emerging from stealth today with backing from Google’s AI-focused venture fund to help businesses compile their open-source AI infrastructure and reduce their engineering overheads. Cake integrates and secures more than 100 components for enterprises.

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Yurts raises $40 million to be the DoD’s AI Chatbot Dec 04, 2024

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Yurts has raised a $40 million Series B led by XYZ Venture Capital to provide the DoD with gen AI.

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Orakl Oncology combines data and biology to bring new drugs to cancer patients Dec 04, 2024

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Cancer incidence is on the rise, particularly among younger adults, but most new drug compounds fail to progress through clinical trials. According to French entrepreneur Fanny Jaulin (on the right in the picture above), the problem lies with clinical trial design.

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Joco almost died at launch. Now, it’s a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders — and a profitable business Dec 03, 2024

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On a September morning in 2024, two Jonathan Cohens — one from the Rockaways in Queens, the other from London — stood in an empty 15,000-square-foot parking garage near Hudson Yards in New York City. As they walked over chipped yellow lines, they explained how the space would help Joco, their shared e-bike startup.

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Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike Dec 03, 2024

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As one of the most decorated track cyclists of all time, Sir Chris Hoy might not seem an obvious candidate to back the burgeoning electric bike movement. The common refrain, after all, is that e-bikes aren’t real bikes.

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India, already an IPO bright spot, prepares for bigger surge in 2025 Dec 02, 2024

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India has bucked the global trend in initial public offerings this year, establishing itself as a rare bright spot for tech listings while other major markets face continued headwinds. The world’s most populous nation is now preparing for an even more substantial wave of startup IPOs in 2025

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From pond scum to premium skincare? Dec 02, 2024

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Decarbonizing our economies in the race to fight climate change demands a wholesale overhauling of all sorts of production processes to make them as sustainable as possible. Greening chemicals, which are used as ingredients in all sorts of products, is where U.K. startup Deep Blue Biotech is putting its energies.

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