Oura has acquired metabolic health startup Veri

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

Blood sugar levels are foundational to the Veri platform.
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Fearless Fund is shutting down its contested Strivers Grant program

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

Fearless Fund has settled its case with the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), agreeing to shut down its Strivers Grant program.
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Meet Verse, an AI-powered creative app that helps Gen Z design and publish expressive content

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

Verse, a new AI-powered creative app, is aiming to help Gen Z users create hyper-visual and expressive content. The iOS app allows users to design and publish multimedia content on an interactive canvas with the help of an AI assistant.  You can create a mini website, called a Verse, for things like moodboards, greeting cards, […]
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Amazon is opening Fresh supermarkets after yearlong stall — but many locations remain vacant

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

Amazon has opened a handful of Fresh stores in several states in recent months, and more locations are expected to open later this year.

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Create Online Forms, Surveys and Collect Customer Feedback with Formly

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

Enhance your business with Formly’s intuitive, no-code form builder. Create custom forms, surveys, and quizzes; automate workflows; and more.

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Atomico backs Tem to help businesses buy renewable energy directly from sources

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

Tem wants to do for utilities what neobanks have done for the financial sector: disrupt an industry using tech, streamline it, and cut out the middlemen.
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Mistral releases Pixtral, its first multimodal model

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text. Called Pixtral 12B, the 12-billion-parameter model is roughly 24GB size. (Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving skills, and models with more parameters generally perform better than those with fewer parameters.) Available on GitHub as well as the AI and machine […]
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The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Mine Is Rattling This Texas Oil Town

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world’s largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell.”

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Paymob, started by three college friends, lands another $22 million and is profitable in Egypt

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

Paymob has evolved into an omnichannel gateway offering over 50 methods for offline and online payments to more than 350,000+ merchants.
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InMobi secures $100 million for AI acquisitions ahead of IPO

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Techme101

Adtech startup InMobi has raised $100 million in debt financing as the profitable Indian firm looks to “significantly deepen” its artificial intelligence initiatives and fund potential AI acquisitions ahead of a planned IPO next year.  Mars Growth Capital, a joint venture between MUFG and Liquidity Group, has financed the funding, InMobi said Wednesday. The investment […]
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