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NewRetirement wants to simplify financial planning for retirement

NewRetirement builds software to help people create financial retirement plans. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google wants to use generative AI to build travel itineraries for your vacations

As we inch towards the summer holidays, Google is announcing a slate of travel updates that place it squarely in the travel planning process and give it a lot more insight into purchasing intent in the travel sector. First up, … Continue reading

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Cyvl.ai is bringing data-driven solutions to transportation infrastructure

In the summer after his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an engineering school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Cyvl.ai co-founder and CEO Daniel Pelaez needed a job. He went home and worked at his local public works department, where he noted … Continue reading

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Musical toy startup Playtime Engineering wants to simplify electronic music making for kids

Troy Sheets began making music at 15 years old in his home studio with a keyboard synthesizer, drum machine and four-track cassette recorder — an impressive setup for a high school sophomore. However, it’s rare for young, up-and-coming musicians to … Continue reading

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Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors

Agricultural robotics are not a new phenomenon. We’ve seen systems that pick apples and berries, kill weeds, plant trees, transport produce and more. But while these functions are understood to be the core features of automated systems, the same thing … Continue reading

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Observe, the data observability platform, raises $115M with Snowflake investing

Enterprises today store and use data across an ever-growing number of applications and locations — making it challenging — if not impossible — to manage and query that data in a holistic way. That spells opportunity for startups building tools … Continue reading

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Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good patient data

Century Health is applying AI to clinical data to uncover new applications for drugs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Amazon will have to publish an ads library in EU after all

Amazon will have to provide information about the ads running on its platform in a publicly accessible online archive after all, following a decision by the European Union’s highest court Wednesday. The ads transparency requirement is contained in the bloc’s … Continue reading

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Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model, but it can’t beat GPT-4

If you wanted to raise the profile of your major tech company and had $10 million to spend, how would you spend it? On a Super Bowl ad? An F1 sponsorship? You could spend it training a generative AI model. … Continue reading

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Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks

Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace. The sanction, of close to $8M (or in local currency: PLN 31,850,141), also calls out the e-commerce giant for deceptive design … Continue reading

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