Year: 2023

Veteran life sciences firm RA Capital spins up ‘planetary health’ team to ride climate tech wave
Dec 5, 2023
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Tim De Chant
in climate, Climate Change, EC Food Climate and Sustainability, public health, RA Capital, venture
Partners at RA Capital realized that if they didn’t try to address climate change and its health effects, their life science investments wouldn’t be as impactful. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Veteran life sciences firm RA Capital spins up ‘planetary health’ team to ride climate tech wave
Dec 5, 2023
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by
Tim De Chant
in climate, Climate Change, EC Food Climate and Sustainability, public health, RA Capital, venture
Partners at RA Capital realized that if they didn’t try to address climate change and its health effects, their life science investments wouldn’t be as impactful. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Kyron Learning secures $14.6M to expand its conversational AI technology
Dec 5, 2023
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Lauren Forristal
in AI, edtech, Funding, Startups
Kyron Learning, an AI-based learning startup, announced today its $14.6 million Series A funding round plus a $850,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new capital will further develop the platform’s generative AI capabilities an…
Meta and IBM form an AI Alliance, but to what end?
Dec 5, 2023
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Kyle Wiggers
in AI, Enterprise, IBM, meta, organization
Meta, on an open source tear, wants to spread its influence further and wider in the ongoing battle for AI mindshare. This morning, the social network announced that it’s teaming up with IBM, whose audience is decidedly more corporate and enterpr…
AI Is Testing the Limits of Corporate Governance
Dec 5, 2023
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Roberto Tallarita
in AI and machine learning, Boards, Business and society, Business ethics, Corporate Governance, Corporate social responsibility, Digital Article, Government policy and regulation, Technology and analytics
The turmoil at OpenAI offers five lessons — and one dire warning.
Setting AI Projects Up for Success
Dec 5, 2023
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HBR.org
in AI and machine learning, Analytics and data science, Audio, Experimentation, IT management, Project management, Strategy
A conversation with HBS professor Iavor Bojinov on what leaders need to know.
EnCharge raises $22.6M to commercialize its AI-accerating chips
Dec 5, 2023
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Kyle Wiggers
in AI, AI accelerator, chip, EnCharge, Funding, startup, Startups
Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry — e.g. Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, AWS and Intel. Its mission at the time sounded a little am…
Vancouver’s Fantuan raises $40M to deliver real Chinese food at your doorstep
Dec 5, 2023
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Rita Liao
in canada, china, commerce, fantuan, food delivery, vancouver
For those who move abroad from China, one thing they miss dearly is the convenience of food delivery apps. Fantuan, a Vancouver-based company, has been working on replicating the experience of Chinese food delivery platforms in the West for the past ni…
Foretellix raises $85M to build and test scenarios for self-driving systems
Dec 5, 2023
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Ingrid Lunden
in Transportation, venture
On their way to building fully-autonomous vehicles, self-driving car makers are facing a tall task: training their AIs to be able to respond reliably to any and all scenarios that a car, truck or bus might encounter as well as, or hopefully better, tha…
Elon’s cunning plan
Dec 5, 2023
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Unknown
We’ve been questioning the myth of Elon Musk for about a decade now, starting back when only a handful of other commoners were taking that position, and one of the things we’ve learned is that explaining his actions is always going to be far more c…