Category: Enterprise
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Piramidal’s foundation model for brainwaves could supercharge EEGs
AI models are being applied to every dataset under the sun, but are inconsistent in their outcomes. This is as true in the medical world as anywhere else, but a startup called Piramidal believes it has a sure thing with a foundational model for analyzing brain scan data. Cofounders Dimitris Sakellariou and Kris Pahuja have…
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Andrew Ng steps back at Landing AI after announcing new fund
Andrew Ng is stepping down from his role as CEO at Landing AI, the computer vision platform he founded in 2017. Dan Maloney, formerly the COO, will take the reins as Ng transitions to Executive Chairman to “continue to help drive” the tech and collaborate on “key decisions.” Formerly of Google Brain, Coursera, and Baidu,…
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Colorful Capital will stop trying to raise for a fund
Colorful Capital’s co-founders, William Burckart and Megan Kashner, declined to comment. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Colorful Capital, which launched in 2022 to focus on investing in LGBTQIA+-identifying founders, will end its attempts at raising a fund, according to an email seen by TechCrunch. It’s unclear if the firm…
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Justice Department sues RealPage over allegedly helping landlords collude to drive up rents
RealPage, which makes property management software, was sued Friday by the U.S. Justice Department and eight attorneys general for allegedly helping apartment and building managers around the country collude to drive up unit prices. The Richardson, Texas-based outfit is accused of contracting with rival landlords to absorb info about their rates and lease terms to…
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VC Neil Mehta, who’s quietly nabbing prized SF property, plans a “Y Combinator for restaurants”
Neil Mehta, the VC behind the acquisition of a string of properties on San Francisco’s tony Fillmore Street, made waves earlier this week for reportedly throwing long-established local restaurants to the curb to bring in more high-end retailers. The San Francisco Chronicle talked, for example, to the owner of Ten-Ichi, a neighborhood sushi restaurant for…
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360 One lifts its valuation of India’s National Stock Exchange to $29.9B
360 One Asset, an investor in National Stock Exchange (NSE), has increased its valuation for India’s top stock exchange to $29.9 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. 360 One Asset, an investor in India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE), has increased its valuation for the stock exchange to $29.9 billion,…
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After changing its license, Redis drops its biggest release yet
Redis, the company behind the popular in-memory data store, which is often used as a cache, vector database or streaming engine, today announced the launch of Redis 8. With this release, the company is doubling down on Redis as a vector database for AI use cases and launching an AI Copilot the help developers more…
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Tingit is building a marketplace for ‘zero-effort’ repairs, starting with fashion
Tingit, a startup out of Lithuania, wants to help people restore their used clothing to their former glory with its newly launched repairs marketplace. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Do you have a much-loved jacket with a torn sleeve or pair of grubby kicks gathering dust at the back…
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Meta and Spotify CEOs criticize AI regulation in the EU
Meta and Spotify are once again teaming up — this time, on the matter of open source (or to be precise, open-weight) AI which the companies claim are being hampered by regulations. In joint statements published to both companies’ respective websites on Friday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek complain that EU…
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