Overstory snags $14M Series A to use AI to help utilities cut their wildfire risk

First it was California, which experienced year after year of deadly wildfires. Then came Hawaii’s deadly…

Tinder goes ultra-premium, Amazon invests in Anthropic and Apple explains its new AirPods

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Why Solana, Polygon and Aptos expect the enterprise to drive mass adoption

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Cinemin: A Fun Camera App with Animated Film Aesthetics (No AI)

Tinrocket, makers of popular apps such as Waterlogue and Olli, have released a new camera app…

Should the US implement a ‘robot tax?’

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How to pitch me: 15 investors talk about what they’re looking for in August 2023

Summer 2023 has been the hottest one on record since 1880, but while early-stage founders were…

Amazon inks logistics deal with India’s post and railway services, announces SMB generative AI tool

Amazon‘s march on the Indian market is taking to the rails and the mail. The e-commerce…

Chinese luxury EV brand Zeekr continues global push into Kazakhstan

Zeekr, the luxury electric vehicle brand under China’s Geely Automobile Holdings, says it will launch its…

Microsoft to pay $20m for child privacy violations

The tech giant used data collected from child Xbox users without telling parents, US regulators say.…

Why millions of useable hard drives are being destroyed

Seagate is a leading provider of data storage solutions, and a founding member of the CDI.…