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4:00

Karmen secures $9.4 million for its revenue-based...

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2025/01/23

French startup Karmen has secured a small funding round so that it can improve its instant financing products. The company offers short-term loans to small companies facing a working capital crunch. It’s a €9 million equity-and-debt round ($9.4 million at today’s exchange rates) with Seventure Partners buying a stake in the small startup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:03

Friend delays shipments of its AI companion pendant

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2025/01/22

Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments until Q3. Friend had planned to ship devices to pre-order customers in Q1. But according to co-founder and CEO Avi Schiffman, that’s no longer feasible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:00

AI isn’t very good at history, new paper finds

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2025/01/22

Top LLMs performed poorly on a high-level history test, a new paper has found.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:33

The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’

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2025/01/21

Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:47

Nord Security founders launch Nexos.ai to help...

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2025/01/21

A new AI orchestration startup from the founders of Lithuanian unicorn Nord Security is setting out to help enterprises put their AI projects into production, with an initial focus on bringing greater visibility, security and adaptability to large language models (LLMs). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:07

Climate tech matured in 2024 as investors favored...

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2025/01/20

Climate tech may have had a down year in 2024, but new data also shows a maturing sector with larger deal sizes. Venture investment in the climate tech sector was down 7% to $12.9 billion, $1 billion shy of 2023’s tally, according to data in a new PitchBook report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:41

Google strikes world’s largest biochar carbon removal...

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2025/01/20

Google has agreed to purchase 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from Indian startup Varaha. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:58

Clop ransomware gang names dozens of victims hit by...

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2025/01/17

The Russia-linked ransomware group is threatening to leak data stolen from almost 60 Cleo Software customers if ransoms aren't paidLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:45

Hinge’s new AI feature determines if your prompt...

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2025/01/17

Hinge today launched a new AI-powered feature called “Prompt Feedback,” which aims to improve your dating profile by analyzing how you answer prompts and assessing if it needs to be more specific or authentic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:54

SoftBank veteran hunts for profits in payments...

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2025/01/16

Former SoftBank exec Akshay Naheta's startup, Distributed Technologies Research, is trying to bridge the gap between banking and blockchain tech.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:43

Steppin is a new app that locks your social media...

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2025/01/16

App stores are filled with different services that are designed to help you cut down on your screen time and count your steps. A new iOS app called Steppin combines these two ideas to help users do both at the same time to bridge the gap between physical and mental health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:38

OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese...

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2025/01/15

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in English. Given a problem to sort out — e.g. “How many R’s are in the word ‘strawberry?'”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:10

OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI...

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2025/01/15

OpenAI on Monday published what it’s calling an “economic blueprint” for AI: a living document that lays out policies the company thinks it can build on with the U.S. government and its allies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:31

UK throws its hat into the AI fire

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2025/01/14

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:36

Automattic says it will reduce its contribution to...

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2025/01/14

It’s a new year, but drama in the WordPress community keeps going. Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, said that it would reduce its contribution to WordPress core, the open-source project that acts as the backbone of most of Automattic’s products and ensures the longevity of WordPress as a technology and community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:43

Comcast and other TV streamers are now chasing...

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2025/01/13

TV providers and streamers’ real competition isn’t each other, it’s social video. Or at least that’s what the president of Comcast Advertising, James Rooke, said during an interview on Wednesday at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:01

Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of...

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2025/01/13

Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, some of whom have been spearheading a push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:44

CES 2025: Nvidia’s AI avatar sat on my computer...

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2025/01/10

Nvidia unveiled a prototype AI avatar at CES 2025 that lives on your PC’s desktop. The AI assistant, R2X, looks like a video game character, and it can help you navigate apps on your computer.The R2X avatar is rendered and animated using Nvidia’s AI models, and users can run the avatar on popular LLMs of their choice, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o or xAI’s Grok. Users can talk with R2X through text and voice, upload files to it for processing, or even enable the AI assistant to view what’s happening live

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4:50

CES 2025: Where have all the US automakers gone?

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2025/01/09

The old chestnut passed around by industry watchers for the past decade was that CES — one of the world’s largest consumer tech trade events — had turned into an auto show. Maybe even the most important auto show of the year. And there was ample evidence of that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:48

CES 2025: Halliday's Smart Glasses

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2025/01/09

Walk up to someone wearing a pair of Halliday’s smart glasses, and you might not notice they’re looking at smartphone notifications, live language translations, or advice from an AI assistant. The only giveaway is the tiny green dot of light on their eyeball. Wearables startup Halliday launched a pair of smart glasses at CES 2025 that projects a 3.5-inch round display into your line of sight. The device creating the display is called the DigiWindow, and it’s a tiny round module — smaller than your

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