<p>Gemini is Google’s long-promised, next-gen generative AI model family.</p>

<p>Data storage and resilience company Lonestar and semiconductor and storage company Phison launched a data center infrastructure on a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday that&#8217;s headed to the moon. The companies are sending Phison&#8217;s Pascari storage — solid state drives (SSDs) built for data centers — packed with Lonestar&#8217;s clients&#8217; data on a SpaceX Falcon 9 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Regions like the U.S. and Europe have been doubling down on rebuilding their industrial muscle after decades of closing down factories and outsourcing the work to countries like China. To that end, a fast-growing Polish startup called Nomagic, which builds robotic arms for picking, packing, and moving in logistics operations, has raised $44 million in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anthropic, one of the world&#8217;s largest AI vendors, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges. With Anthropic&#8217;s model ecosystem growing so quickly, it can be tough to keep track of which Claude [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free.</p>

<p>When goods enter the U.S., they have to be declared to U.S. customs so the importer can be charged the proper taxes. That applies to everything from a consumer ordering clothes from a brand based overseas to every single item on a massive container ship. When it comes to commercial importing, filling out the necessary [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft is reportedly shrinking its data center footprint. The tech giant has canceled leases with multiple data center providers that total a &#8220;couple hundred megawatts&#8221; of capacity, according to Bloomberg, which cited a memo from investment bank TD Cowen. This total represents the equivalent of about two data centers. The reason for Microsoft&#8217;s move is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Quantum computing remains a holy grail in the world of technology. But thanks to some important breakthroughs in the last several months, investors are betting on promising startups in the space to make the concept of super-efficient, particle- and electron-based computing a reality. Now, Quantum Machines, an Israeli startup that provides quantum control solutions to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment. Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed to employ generative AI in specific contexts… and investors are rushing to fund the most interesting of these.&nbsp; In one of the latest examples, a startup out of Israel called Perfect — [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The U.S. government is leaning hard on tech companies to make more commitments to building their businesses in the country, and Big Tech is falling in line. On Monday, Apple laid out its own plans in that area: It will spend $500 billion over the next four years in areas like high-end manufacturing, engineering, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the market got it wrong when it comes to DeepSeek&#8217;s technological advancements and its potential to negatively impact the chipmaker&#8217;s business. Instead, Huang called DeepSeek&#8217;s R1 open source reasoning model &#8220;incredibly exciting&#8221; while speaking with Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks, in a pre-recorded interview that was released [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Three founders who built out one of the bigger startups in risk management are scaling a new company to take on another pain point in the world of work. SmartSuite&#8216;s platform lets teams collaborate on projects, build automations around that work, and search and access work across larger libraries of data spanning a disparate number [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Data centers consumed 4.4% of U.S. electricity in 2023 and are estimated to use up to 12% by 2028. The majority of the energy that data centers suck up is used to help transfer data from chip to chip. A company called Hyperlume is looking to make that process more energy-efficient while also speeding it [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As companies like Nvidia and SoftBank focus on industrial robotics as key areas for future R&amp;D, a startup has raised funding today for another facet of how AI is being used on the factory room floor. Augury, which develops AI-based hardware to identify when machines need repairs and what is wrong with them, has raised [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Creating corporate training videos for software is a time-consuming ordeal, especially if you&#8217;re an organization with a lot of software licenses. Training videos can help get employees up to speed, but they&#8217;re a big lift. They often take entire teams to produce. Tel Aviv-based entrepreneur Yoav Einav thought there might be an alternative, cheaper way [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A task force, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank, is hoping to improve credibility of voluntary carbon markets.</p>

<p>Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded by a former engineering manager at Segment — is announcing $80 million in funding for the next chapter: a platform that lets sales, marketing, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old Google Translate can convert the content of images, audio, and entire websites across hundreds of languages, while newer tools such as ChatGPT also serve as handy pocket translators. On the back end, DeepL and ElevenLabs have have reached lofty [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Generative AI is getting better at interpreting dense texts, and this progress has proven to be a boon for startups attacking one of the most complex sets of texts there is: the law. It makes sense then that we’ve been seeing a new burst of activity in the legal tech space off the back of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Internal customer support platforms are moving from platforms like email ticketing systems and chat to channels like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and even Discord. But with Slack, for instance, able to host hundreds of channels, the whole thing can become quite unwieldy.&nbsp; Plain, out of the U.K., thinks it has the answer. Its API-first platform consolidates [&hellip;]</p>