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SleekFlow snaps up $7M to tap the conversational AI opportunity across Asia Aug 22, 2024

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SleekFlow, a Singapore- and Hong Kong-headquartered social commerce platform that has built a conversational AI suite for customer engagement targeted to Asian markets, said Wednesday it had secured a further $7 million in funding. The money will be used to continue developing its AI, as well as penetrate deeper into Southeast Asia.

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Beyond Math’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars Aug 21, 2024

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Simulating the real world is a tremendously complex problem if you want to do it at any useful level of fidelity. Traditional techniques are holding back design teams at vehicle and aerospace companies, but Beyond Math is putting AI on the task with a new way of simulating the world that could save them days.

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Defcon AI closes $44M seed round to solve a problem of ‘maximum complexity’: Military logistics Aug 21, 2024

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The U.S. Department of Defense is a mammoth organization. It not only employs millions of service members and hundreds of thousands of civilian employees, but also has the world’s largest military budget that’s used to buy and maintain more equipment than can likely fit into a single paragraph.

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Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products Aug 20, 2024

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Popular iPad design app Procreate is coming out against generative AI, and has vowed never to introduce generative AI features into its products. The company said on its website that although machine learning is a “compelling technology with a lot of merit,” the current path that generative AI is on is wrong for its platform.

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Keychain aims to unlock a new approach to manufacturing consumer goods Aug 20, 2024

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Brands can use Keychain to look up different products and see who actually manufactures them.

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Keychain aims to unlock a new approach to manufacturing consumer goods Aug 19, 2024

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Brands can use Keychain to look up different products and see who actually manufactures them.

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AI social media vetting startup Ferretly secures $2.5M, launches election personnel screening tool Aug 19, 2024

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An AI social media vetting startup Ferretly has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and is launching a new platform designed to screen election personnel. Founded in 2019, Ferretly leverages AI to scan social media and publicly available online data to uncover potential risks and behaviors that traditional background checks may overlook.

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Stoke Space’s initial launch plans at Cape Canaveral take shape Aug 16, 2024

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Stoke Space is nothing if not ambitious. The five-year-old launch startup has generated a lot of hype due to its bold plans to develop the first fully reusable rocket, with both the booster and second stage vertically returning to Earth.

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CodeRabbit raises $16M to bring AI to code reviews Aug 16, 2024

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Code reviews — peer reviews of code that help devs improve code quality — are time-consuming. According to one source, 50% of companies spend two to five hours a week on them. Without enough people, code reviews can be overwhelming and take devs away from other important work.

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Move over SEO, Profound is helping brands with AI search optimization Aug 15, 2024

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Search engine optimization (SEO) has been top of mind for brands for more than a decade to ensure their websites and products capture as many eyeballs as possible by ranking high up on search results pages. But search is changing, and as consumers increasingly turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude

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