An app that helps people and teams in the working world simplify their to-do lists β ideally by organizing and doing some of the work for them β has remained one of the unsolved goals in business technology. Leaning into AI, on top of battle scars from once building Google Wave, a startup called Tana [β¦]
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ElevenLabs, one of the more popular startups working in the field of AI audio, said Thursday that it has raised a Series C round of $180 million, valuing the company at $3.3 billion post-money. a16z and ICONIQ Growth are co-leading the investment. Rumors of the fundraise were first reported by TechCrunch. The final numbers confirm [β¦]
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LinkedIn, the social platform where people look for and talk about work, may be less visible in Microsoftβs earnings compared to the years when it was an independent company. But around earnings time, LinkedIn often reveals some figures that point to how it continues to grow.Β On Wednesday, as Microsoft reported its Q2 numbers, the [β¦]
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When it comes to the world of cybersecurity, identity is often thought of as a βperimeterβ around an organization. So many breaches begin through techniques like password theft, phishing, and credential stuffing; ergo, securing the identities of not only users, but also applications and machines, is the key to securing the whole system.Β Easier said [β¦]
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The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short Nvidia and other tech stocks. Whichever it might be (maybe both?), DeepSeek and its large language model have made some major waves. And now, itβs [β¦]
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Quantum computing remains something of a holy grail in the world of technology: It promises a huge leap in computing power, but only if someone can figure out how to square away the fault rates that prevent any scaling of the tech. Now, one of the more promising quantum startups in Europe is announcing a [β¦]
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Companies that want to build AI voice into their products are rushing to work with ElevenLabs, the startup that develops synthetic voice technology like voice cloning and dubbing tools. Now ElevenLabs is turning up the volume on its business with a huge Series C raise, just a year after a sizable Series B. The New [β¦]
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Stockholm startup Neko Health has made a big bet on consumers wanting to learn about their state of health and how to prevent things going wrong. Now, investors are making a big bet on Neko.Β The startup has raised a fresh $260 million in funding, a Series B that values Neko at $1.8 billion post-money, [β¦]
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Vertice has made a name for itself over the years in the crowded world of expenditure management by focusing on applying AI to optimize an area where businesses are sinking hundreds of billions of dollars annually: software and cloud spend. The London-based startupβs business has grown 13x in the three years since its inception (similar [β¦]
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Alongside its big public push for AI investments, the U.K. government is also playing a virtual card to catapult itself into the 21st century. Today it announced plans to launch a secure digital wallet to manage government-issued credentials, alongside a chatbot β built-in collaboration with OpenAI β to interact with the main GOV.UK portal. Today, [β¦]
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A week after the U.K. government announced a sweeping plan to make big investments into AI, itβs laying out more details around how this will take shape in the public sector. On the agenda: AI assistants to speed up public services; data-sharing deals across siloed departments; and a new set of AI tools β dubbed [β¦]
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The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats, as certain startups continue to struggle and look for exits. In one of the latest developments, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Metropolis, an AI-powered parking platform, has acquired Oosto, the controversial computer vision company that used to be known as AnyVision. TechCrunch [β¦]
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The Supreme Court has upheld the law that will effectively ban TikTok on Sunday, January 19. The decision marks the end of TikTokβs months-long legal fight against a law that essentially forces the ByteDance-owned app to shut down unless it divests its U.S. operations on national security grounds. As of Sunday, it will be illegal [β¦]
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Surprise! Donald Trumpβs big, audacious ambition to buy Greenland from Denmark has a tech angle. Ken Howery, named as U.S. President-elect Trumpβs pick to be the next ambassador to the country (and thus chief broker of any deal), is one more part of the rich seam of tech people running through Trumpβs upcoming administration.Β Part [β¦]
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If youβve ever applied or thought of applying for a job via LinkedIn, youβll know that the experience can be immediately disheartening: Openings that look interesting typically can see hundreds or thousands of applications in a matter of hours β data that LinkedIn, a social network for the world of work, proudly exposes in its [β¦]
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As the world continues to work through how to handle the explosion of deepfake content online, it seems that not all AI-created videos are stirring controversy. Synthesia, a London startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, says itβs a big hit with enterprises, with some 60,000 of them β 1 million users β [β¦]
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The Competition and Markets Authority β the U.K.βs antitrust watchdog β is wasting no time in lodging its first official investigation of 2025 under its new rules that came into effect this month. Itβs looking into the market dominance of Google in search, including the new work itβs doing in AI search as well as [β¦]
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Healthcare is proving to be one of the more lucrative industries for building AI solutions to speed up clinical, research, and administrative operations. Now, we have one of the latest examples of how that is playing out in terms of venture funding. Qventus, a startup that builds AI-based tools to automate work across a range [β¦]
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In 2023, the U.K. made a big song and dance about the need to consider the harms of AI, giving itself a leading role in the wider conversation around AI safety. Now, itβs whistling a very different tune: today, the government announced a sweeping plan and a big bet on AI investments to develop what [β¦]
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A startup hoping to provide a credible alternative to Amazon has picked up funding to double down on the gap in the market. PrettyDamnQuick (PDQ) provides tech to retailers to let them customize and test different shipping and checkout flows, and now it has picked up a deal of its own: a $25 million Series [β¦]
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