Month: February 2025

Helsing unveils first German factory to build more autonomous attack drones Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/helsing-ai-attack-drones-factory-germany/

AI agent startups: the biggest European funding rounds since the start of 2024 Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-agent-funding-rounds/

Hotstar and JioCinema merge into JioHotstar as Reliance tightens grip on streaming in India Hotstar and JioCinema, two widely used video streaming apps in India, have merged into JioHotstar. JioStar, a joint venture between Reliance-owned Viacom18 and Star India, said Friday it had integrated JioCinema’s vast library of content into

Turo scraps plans for an IPO Turo on Thursday withdrew its plans for an IPO, ending a three-year wait to bring the online car-sharing network to the public marketplace, according to a regulatory filing. Turo, which was founded in 2010, allows private car owners to rent out their vehicles through

UK drops ‘safety’ from its AI body, now called AI Security Institute, inks MOU with Anthropic The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it’s pivoting an institution that it founded a little over a year

Meta CTO says staff should quit if they don’t like Meta’s new policies Meta’s CTO said staff unhappy with the tech giant’s latest policies should work somewhere else, an internal chat reveals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/meta-cto-says-staff-should-quit-if-they-dont-like-metas-new-policies/

Google Gemini now brings receipts to your AI chats Google’s Gemini AI chatbot can now tailor answers based on the contents of previous conversations, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday. Gemini can summarize a previous conversation you’ve had with it, or recall info you shared in another

AI pioneer Dr Simon Kohl’s Latent Labs emerges from stealth, raising $50M for programmable biology AI foundation model builder Latent Labs today emerged from stealth with $50 million in total funding to accelerate their progress in programmable biology. The company was founded by Dr Simon Kohl, previously a co-lead of DeepMind’s

Fal.ai secures $49M series B for AI video creation Turkish mediatech startup Fal.ai has raised $49M in a Series B funding round led by Notable Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, and First Round. This brings Fal’s total funding to $72M.  Previously, the company secured

Monzo’s COO Sujata Bhatia to exit after five years Monzo’s chief operating officer Sujata Bhatia is leaving the UK challenger bank after five years. Bhatia announced on LinkedIn that she is “stepping away” from the neobank, saying it was the right time to exit. She said:  “There’s never a good