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In Utah’s booming tech scene, from Silicon Slopes startups to established firms in Salt Lake City and Provo,

The Silicon Valley chipmaker’s journey from icon to a government project, with the sale of a 10 percent stake to the Trump administration, underlines how even the mightiest in tech can fall.

FoundHer House, a home in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood, is the rare all-female hacker house where residents are creating a supportive community to build their start-ups.

We chat with Rivian's founder about what the startup is cooking up next, the China threat and why America needs more EV competition.

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has hinted that China will soon have homegrown "next generation" chips to support its AI development.

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has hinted that China will soon have homegrown "next generation" chips to support its AI development.

Plus, Honda taps a Silicon Valley company for autonomy and Xiaomi sees green.

DeepSeek just revealed its latest AI development. The Chinese startup’s newest V3.1 model comes packed with features designed

Five years ago, in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, Black-founded startups had "a moment" when venture capitalists (VCs) were eager to invest. In the two years after Floyd's death, the share of VC dollars that went to Black businesses jumped by 43%.

Civ Robotics is a startup that uses robots as land surveyors. The robots can mark thousands of placement points per day for solar panels on solar farms.

Civ Robotics is a startup that uses robots as land surveyors. The robots can mark thousands of placement points per day for solar panels on solar farms.

A mysterious company from the United Arab Emirates just offered something unexpected. Advanced Security Solutions emerged this month

Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is set to join the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) in an effort to "cut red tape" and, presumably, save some cash.…

Robotics startup FieldAI has closed two funding rounds, with investments from Nvidia's venture capital arm and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' family office.

Robotics startup FieldAI has closed two funding rounds, with investments from Nvidia's venture capital arm and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' family office.

Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players Feature  It's not easy to grow a national chip industry. Semiconductor startups are a risky investment. They chew through early-stage capital, often with little to show for it, making them a long-term proposition. Those that pay off can deliver big, but success is far from guaranteed.…

Plus, Tesla's fired supercharger employees build a new venture and Waymo's former CEO throws shade at Tesla's robotaxi.

Unable to make big AI purchases because of regulatory hurdles, tech giants have spent billions to buy top talent from startups, leaving behind shell companies.

Unable to make big AI purchases because of regulatory hurdles, tech giants have spent billions to buy top talent from startups, leaving behind shell companies.

Early-stage tech companies don’t fail only because of “bad design.” But poor UX routinely accelerates the most common

Got a particle accelerator? Here’s your tritium startup idea Tritium is ridiculously rare, incredibly expensive, and central to most fusion energy reactor designs. If research out of Los Alamos National Lab proves to hold true, it might soon become easier to obtain.…

It is the first deployment under an agreement that Google and Kairos signed last year to the launch the startup's nuclear technology at a commercial scale.

A new initiative recently launched in Chicago is striving to predict urban flooding. Verizon, in conjunction with Chicago's Center for Neighborhood Technology and a Michigan-based startup, is equipping the city with technology that will give officials and residents alike the ability to track urban flooding in real time.

Customers of the private markets startup Yieldstreet said they face huge losses on real estate investments that turned out to be far riskier than they thought.

The artificial intelligence-powered software company's cofounders include renowned venture capitalist Peter Thiel and current CEO Alex Karp.

The artificial intelligence-powered software company's cofounders include renowned venture capitalist Peter Thiel and current CEO Alex Karp.

Imagine you invest US$500 to help a startup get off the ground through investment crowdfunding. The pitch is slick, the platform feels trustworthy and the company quickly raises its target amount from hundreds of people just like you. Then—silence. No updates, no financials, not even a thank-you.

Making apps is as easy as selling t-shirts, claims vibe coding startup Hands On  Create has declared its vibe coding platform, now called Anything, production-ready at version 1.0, with support for both web and mobile applications – although our quick hands-on generated a host of errors.…

DeepSeek hit a technological wall that forced the Chinese AI startup to postpone its highly anticipated R2 model

Voltify, a start-up, has a bold ambition to convince Class 1 railroads to buy its battery-electric VoltCars, charged via a U.S. network of microgrids

Igor Babuschkin, who helped start xAI in 2023, said in a post on X that he's leaving the artificial intelligence startup to launch his own venture firm.

Investors who lost money in Richard Kim's alleged scheme included Galaxy Digital, where he had been a venture fund investor for six years.

Hatteras Venture Partners has secured over $200 million across a pair of funds that are set to benefit up-and-coming biotechs alongside medtech and healthtech companies.

Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the arguments surrounding the UK's Online Safety Act, accusing the UK government of leaking his input.…

Sam Altman has quietly begun assembling his next big venture. The OpenAI CEO is co-founding Merge Labs, a

Google's dominance of the search engine and online advertising market has come under intense scrutiny.

Cava also announced an investment in Hyphen, a restaurant automation startup.

The tiny start-up hopes to take advantage of an upcoming antitrust ruling against the tech giant.

AI startup Perplexity has offered to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion

AI startup Perplexity has offered to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion

Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron is joining autonomous trucking startup Waabi as COO and says the era of self-driving big rigs across U.S. roads is near.

Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron is joining autonomous trucking startup Waabi as COO and says the era of self-driving big rigs across U.S. roads is near.

AthleteAgent.com was created to improve access to athletes, offering a more streamlined way for organizations to connect with them.

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Microsoft, which is seeking to fend off competition from AI coding startups like Cursor, is losing GitHub chief Thomas Dohmke.

Some six months after DeepSeek shook Silicon Valley, is the Chinese AI chatbot still relevant?

Runwise combines future weather algorithms with a wireless temperature sensor network that speaks to a central control system.

Tariffs, the death of EV tax credits, no more regulatory credits, supply chain crunches... what's an EV startup to do?

The AI race will be won not by those who develop the most powerful models, but by those who can deploy them the most widely, and that's looking like China.

arXiv:2508.05491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into startup evaluation represents a significant technological shift, yet the academic research underpinning this transition remains methodologically fragmented. Existing studies often employ ad-hoc approaches, leading to a body of work with inconsistent definitions of success, atheoretical features, and a lack of rigorous validation. This fragmentation severely limits the comparability, reliability, and practical utility of current predictive models. To address this critical gap, this paper presents a comprehensive systematic literature review of 57 empirical studies. We deconstruct the current state-of-the-art by systematically mapping the features, algorithms, data sources, and evaluation practices that define the AI-driven startup prediction landscape. Our synthesis reveals a field defined by a central paradox: a strong convergence on a common toolkit -- venture databases and

The A.I. start-up said its new flagship technology was faster, more accurate and less likely to make stuff up.

Tells The Reg they never were ... 'and this will not change' The second Trump administration has repeatedly complained about Europe's tech laws targeting Silicon Valley's finest, but now its antipathy is going into overdrive.…

Lyten will acquire German and Swedish factories built by Northvolt, which declared bankruptcy in March.

The Club World Cup in the United States only finished on 13 July, but it is not long before Europe's top leagues start up again.

arXiv:2508.04181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There have been attempts to create large-scale structures in vision models similar to LLM, such as ViT-22B. While this research has provided numerous analyses and insights, our understanding of its practical utility remains incomplete. Therefore, we examine how this model structure reacts and train in a local environment. We also highlight the instability in training and make some model modifications to stabilize it. The ViT-22B model, trained from scratch, overall outperformed ViT in terms of performance under the same parameter size. Additionally, we venture into the task of image generation, which has not been attempted in ViT-22B. We propose an image generation architecture using ViT and investigate which between ViT and ViT-22B is a more suitable structure for image generation.

On Tuesday, the AI audio technology unicorn ElevenLabs revealed a groundbreaking model enabling users to create musical compositions,

arXiv:2508.03130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small organizations, start ups, and self-hosted servers face increasing strain from automated web crawlers and AI bots, whose online presence has increased dramatically in the past few years. Modern bots evade traditional throttling and can degrade server performance through sheer volume even when they are well-behaved. We introduce a novel security approach that leverages data visualization and hierarchical IP hashing to analyze server event logs, distinguishing human users from automated entities based on access patterns. By aggregating IP activity across subnet classes and applying statistical measures, our method detects coordinated bot activity and distributed crawling attacks that conventional tools fail to identify. Using a real world example we estimate that 80 to 95 percent of traffic originates from AI crawlers, underscoring the need for improved filtering mechanisms. Our approach enables small organizations to regulate

The EV startup said launch preparations for the R2 remain on track.

Tariffs, and a loss of tax credits, mean uncertainty for the EV startups. Plus, Hyundai prioritizes Europe for EVs as U.S. subsidies fade.

Meta, Microsoft-backed Mistral and the Chinese startup DeepSeek have also released open-weight models in recent years.

Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…

Ultromics has raised $55 million in venture capital to expand the reach of its AI-powered ultrasound diagnostics for hidden cardiac conditions.

Harvey launched in 2022 after the founders experimented with OpenAI's large language model GPT-3, which came out before its viral AI chatbot, ChatGPT. 

Harvey launched in 2022 after the founders experimented with OpenAI's large language model GPT-3, which came out before its viral AI chatbot, ChatGPT. 

Some use AI to pollinate crops. Others use it for virtual tarot readings. A London-based startup even uses

In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.

Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford to wait to build their own artificial intelligence start-ups.

Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.”

The Rationalists, a community focused on the risks of artificial intelligence, regularly gather with tech figures and other like-minded people in a complex that covers much of a city block.

It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.

Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts Who, Me?  Welcome to the opening day of another working week, an occasion always celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the Monday column that revisits readers' worst moments at work, and celebrates your ability to rebound and reinvent in their wake.…

Regions face reduced federal research funding and shrinking venture capital for startups, though rankings stay consistent. The post Top 10 U.S. Biopharma Clusters 2025 appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness of the A.I. money race.

Trunk Tools, a generative AI platform, automates some of the more tedious tasks, pinpoints project risks and simplifies documents.

Venture capital firms have been waiting for big exits after an extended lull in IPOs. Figma's debut is returning billions.

Venture capital firms have been waiting for big exits after an extended lull in IPOs. Figma's debut is returning billions.

Trauma-inducing startup sound finally axed Great news! Microsoft has finally squashed a Windows 11 Insider bug. No, it still hasn't "Made the Start Menu Great Again." No, you still can't drag the taskbar wherever you like. But yes, it simply kills the bug that played the Windows Vista boot chime on startup.…

What began as a modest school project by two curious teenagers in Bihar, eastern India, has evolved into a cutting-edge startup, using artificial intelligence (AI) and digital sensors to tackle one of the country's most pressing water crises.

Frazier Life Sciences has gathered an impressive $1.3 billion in capital commitments for its 12th venture fund aimed at private early-stage biotechs.

Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs Vercel claims it's slashed AWS Lambda costs by up to 95 percent by reusing idle instances that would otherwise rack up charges while waiting on slow external services like LLMs or databases.…

arXiv:2507.22640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (offline RL) offers a promising framework for developing control strategies in chemical process systems using historical data, without the risks or costs of online experimentation. This work investigates the application of offline RL to the safe and efficient control of an exothermic polymerisation continuous stirred-tank reactor. We introduce a Gymnasium-compatible simulation environment that captures the reactor's nonlinear dynamics, including reaction kinetics, energy balances, and operational constraints. The environment supports three industrially relevant scenarios: startup, grade change down, and grade change up. It also includes reproducible offline datasets generated from proportional-integral controllers with randomised tunings, providing a benchmark for evaluating offline RL algorithms in realistic process control tasks. We assess behaviour cloning and implicit Q-learning as baseline

arXiv:2507.22201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Media reputation plays an important role in attracting venture capital investment. However, prior research has focused too narrowly on general media exposure, limiting our understanding of how media truly influences funding decisions. As informed decision-makers, venture capitalists respond to more nuanced aspects of media content. We introduce the concept of media memorability - the media's ability to imprint a startup's name in the memory of relevant investors. Using data from 197 UK startups in the micro and nanotechnology sector (funded between 1995 and 2004), we show that media memorability significantly influences investment outcomes. Our findings suggest that venture capitalists rely on detailed cues such as a startup's distinctiveness and connectivity within news semantic networks. This contributes to research on entrepreneurial finance and media legitimation. In practice, startups should go beyond frequent media mentions to

Business news related to the technology industry, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, plus consumer electronics, start-ups, cryptocurrency, media, advertising, streaming, venture capital, antitrust and regulation.

The Silicon Valley giant, which has been on a spending spree to hire A.I. researchers, also posted a 36 percent quarterly increase in profit and a 22 percent jump in revenue.

A Massachusetts startup uses a microwave beam to drill deep into the earth to find superhot geothermal energy, 10 times the power of traditional geothermal.

A Massachusetts startup uses a microwave beam to drill deep into the earth to find superhot geothermal energy, 10 times the power of traditional geothermal.

Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well Meta's addition of AI services to encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp has Italian officials suspecting the Silicon Valley giant may be abusing its dominant market position to push unwanted features on users.…

You don’t even need a special license to drive the retrofitted rig, but there’s a catch.

arXiv:2507.21939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern analytical pipelines routinely deploy multiple deep learning and retrieval models that rely on approximate nearest-neighbor (ANN) indexes to support efficient similarity-based search. While many state-of-the-art ANN-indexes are memory-based (e.g., HNSW and IVF), using multiple ANN indexes creates a competition for limited GPU/CPU memory resources, which in turn necessitates disk-based index structures (e.g., DiskANN or eCP). In typical index implementations, the main component is a complex data structure that is serialized to disk and is read either fully at startup time, for memory-based indexes, or incrementally at query time, for disk-based indexes. To visualize the index structure, or analyze its quality, complex coding is needed that is either embedded in the index implementation or replicates the code that reads the data structure. In this paper, we consider an alternative approach that maps the data structure to a file

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery Texas-based startup Quidnet Energy just completed a test showing it can store energy for up to six months by pumping water underground.…

Astronomers have detected a puzzling 'unicorn' object that's speeding up rather than slowing down, contrary to the laws of physics.

Texas-based startup Quidnet Energy just completed a test showing it can store energy for up to six months by pumping water underground. Using water to store electricity is hardly a new concept—pumped hydropower storage has been around for over a century. But the company hopes its twist on the technology could help bring cheap, long-duration…

Rebellions has been working with Samsung to bring its second-generation artificial intelligence chip, called Rebel, to market.

Rebellions has been working with Samsung to bring its second-generation artificial intelligence chip, called Rebel, to market.

A startup energy company, called Marathon Fusion, may soon be living out the dream of alchemists from the Middle Ages. In a recently released paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, the company outlines a method to turn an isotope of mercury, 198Hg, into 197Au, the most stable form of gold.

A genomics firm saying they can help parents with “genetic optimization” of their embryos is tone-deaf Silicon Valley marketing trampling over legitimate science. Parents should be wary

Before Mark Cuban became a tech billionaire, he gave up on a venture selling powdered milk after just one month. Here's what the experience taught him.

Startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, announced Monday a new, low-cost AI model as Chinese companies race to stay at the frontlines of the tech.

University research is where innovative technological breakthroughs originate. As a result, a number of proactive universities provide substantial resources and support to their academic researchers to help increase the number of all ventures.

The EV startup's second model is the quickest SUV Car and Driver has ever tested.