FieldAI, based in Irvine, California, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed funding rounds. The company is developing what it calls “foundational embodied AI models,” which are essentially robot brains designed to help a wide range of machines, from…
A new United Arab Emirates-based startup is offering up to $20 million for hacking tools that could help governments break into any smartphone with a text message. Advanced Security Solutions launched this month and is now offering some of the…
Hundreds of thousands of conversations that users had with Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok are easily accessible through Google Search, according to a report from Forbes. Whenever a Grok user clicks the share button on a conversation, it creates a…
Three parents, Reni Cao, Xiao Zhang, and Susan Rosenthal, were concerned about their children’s screen time. They left their careers in the tech industry to create a product that encourages children to engage with the real world while learning a…
When James Cox, the former leader of Uber’s ride-share product UberPool, left the company in 2019, the Silicon Valley giant had already abandoned and sold off its autonomous vehicle division. Although UberPool had struggled to gain traction, Cox believed a…
Martin Hunt has been a firefighter since the age of fifteen. Now twenty-six, he understood from personal experience the financial strain small communities with tight budgets face when purchasing essential fire equipment. In 2023, a conversation with a fellow firefighter…
Edward Aryee described the motivation behind launching SRE.ai not as one big moment of inspiration, but as a slow accumulation of frustrations, calling it “death by a thousand cuts.” He and his co-founder, Raj Kadiyala, have created a company offering…
For years, one of the most frustrating issues with Notion was its limited functionality without an internet connection due to its cloud-first design. The company has now finally solved that problem by adding support for a full offline mode to…
A Florida judge dismissed a lawsuit against the HR and payroll provider Deel on Tuesday. Deel described the case as a “Rippling-aligned” and “Rippling-supported” lawsuit. However, this is not the separate, high-profile lawsuit filed by its rival Rippling earlier this…
Meta is rolling out an AI-powered voice translation feature to all users on Facebook and Instagram globally. The new feature, available in any market where Meta AI is offered, allows creators to translate their content into other languages to reach…
