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A world-first venture capital fund has been established by Australian farmers to support new software startups that aim to address the most pressing issues facing agriculture. The $60 million fund, which will be delivered by research and development organization Hort Innovation in collaboration with investment
Three sources claim that less than a year after obtaining $25 million for its seed round, MatX, a business that designs processors that support huge language models, has raised a Series A of about $80 million. An individual familiar examined the transaction told TechCrunch that
Scientists have shown in recent decades that chimpanzees, like humans, transmit complex civilizations, including the use of tools, from one generation to the next. But as new developments have been adopted, human culture has advanced significantly from the Stone Age to the Space Age. The
A ceremony honoring the local and worldwide champions took place Thursday night, marking the start of the NASCAR Awards this weekend. In many respects, the sport has expanded internationally while maintaining its roots. The winners of the NASCAR Weekly Series, Whelen Modified, East and West
As it seeks to broaden its reach, OpenAI is said to have contemplated creating a web browser and enabling search functions for partners. The Information said Thursday (Nov. 21) that the prospective web browser will be paired with the business’s chatbot, ChatGPT, and that a
Investors have been pouring money into nuclear fusion, the futuristic technology that seems to be making slow progress toward commercial viability, while the globe scrambles to build more power plants to satisfy AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity. The most recent example is Tokamak Energy, a
With $7.5 million in seed funding, the German business Juna.ai GmbH, which uses artificial intelligence to increase factory efficiency, started today. The investment was spearheaded by Kleiner Perkins. Prominent venture capitalist John Doerr, the Stockholm-based fund Norrsken VC, and other sponsors joined it. Matthias Auf
For the first time, researchers have examined the frozen bones of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cat and discovered “significant differences” between it and a contemporary lion cub. According to a report released Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, the cub’s mummified remains was discovered in the
The first rechargeable lithium-ion battery was introduced to the market by Sony in 1991. In terms of energy storage, the novel chemical changed everything. These days, demand is soaring for everything from smartphones to EVs. However, lithium is uncommon, the majority of it is sourced
The worldwide gendered epidemic of intimate partner violence (IPV) disproportionately affects women. Two out of three victims of intimate partner violence are women, and 25–50% of women worldwide report experiencing abuse in a personal relationship. Intimate relationship violence affects both men and women, but it