With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back – When Jeffrey Wang posted to X last week asking if anyone wanted to go in on an order of fancy-but-affordable office nap pods, he didn’t expect the post to go viral. He said so many others wanted in, he could have …
California firm’s 24/7 renewable PPA with 100-hour heat battery – Photon’s proposal was for a 185MW solar PV project and a 50MW/5,000MWh energy storage system using its thermal energy storage technology, which would be able to deliver eight hours of solar PV a day, 16 hours of stored renewable power via daily cycling plus 84 …
Opinion: Behind the ArriveCan saga is a widespread scourge of the startup world on 2024 – For a wide enough swath of startup owners, it seems that mastering entrepreneurship quickly is on their lists, but the shortcut is avoiding tasks they may have to learn or find uninteresting. If there were an ArriveCan guide to …
Holistic AI Is Now H, a New French Startup With $220 Million Out of the Gate – A French artificial intelligence startup, simply called H, has raised $220 million in initial financing from a slew of billionaires and venture capitalists on the promise of building the next generation of powerful AI tools. For months, a …
Dal startup space partners with province to boost biomedical innovation – $650,000 to support Faculty of Engineering – The Government of Nova Scotia is investing $650,000 to support additional capacity in the Emera ideaHUB’s ideaBuild program. One of Dalhousie’s key facilities for startup development will double the number of companies in its flagship program over …
Earned wage startup ZayZoon returns its services to Canada – ZayZoon focused on servicing the United States after struggling to take on Canadian clients in 2016. Calgary-based FinTech startup ZayZoon is bringing its services back to Canada after only serving the United States (US) for an extended period. ZayZoon’s earned wage access (EWA) offering allows …
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he will leave the startup – OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said Tuesday that he’s leaving the Microsoft-backed startup. “I am excited for what comes next – a project that is very personally meaningful to me about which I will share details in due time,” Sutskever wrote in an X post …
The ‘godmother’ of AI is getting into the startup game – There’s an attention-grabbing new entrant in the competitive world of AI startups. Computer scientist and Stanford University professor Fei-Fei Li, known as the “godmother” of AI, is building a new company “that uses human-like processing of visual data to make AI capable of advanced …
UK AI startup Wayve wins $1bn funding for self-driving car software | Automotive industry – The UK self-driving car technology startup Wayve has secured more than $1bn (£800m) of investment to develop the next generation of artificial intelligence-powered vehicles, with the funding round led by Japan’s SoftBank. The $1.05bn investment is backed by the Japanese …
Nvidia Backs UK Self-Driving Startup Wayve in $1 Billion Round – US chipmaker Nvidia Corp. is investing in Wayve Technologies Ltd., joining a $1.05 billion funding round for the UK startup that wants to get its autonomous-driving technology into cars. The raise — one of the largest ever for a European artificial intelligence company — …
