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Phaze, started by the team behind remote desktop firm Parsec, raised an $8.75M seed round led by a16z. It lets employees and AI agents use powerful remote computers, so companies can share workstations instead of buying one for each person.
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Replacing table salt with potassium-enriched salt can drastically blunt cardiovascular disease on a global scale, new research has found.
Zipline has raised $1.5bn at a $21.5bn valuation, the drone delivery company announced on Thursday. Paradigm, WCM Investment Management and Layer Global led the round. Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Uber, Tiger Global, J.P. Morgan, ARK Invest and Salesforce Ventures also invested.
The Los Angeles-based startup has now raised more than $650 million, and is working on electric trucks, emergency vehicles, and a driverless platform for the military.
Humble Robotics, a San Francisco start-up building self-driving electric freight vehicles, has raised $51m in a Series A round. Obvious Ventures led the round, announced on Thursday, and earlier investors Eclipse and Energy Impact Partners also took part.
Following years of fundraising, acquisitions, and expansion, food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company.
Shield AI agreed to buy Echodyne, which makes radars for counter-drone systems, for $5.3B. It is raising $2.5B in equity and debt to fund the deal, at a $28.8B valuation. Shield wants Echodyne to help it sell beyond the military, to areas like public safety.
Meta has added live voice conversations to Muse, its personal AI agent, so users can talk to it instead of typing. The update also gives Muse an animated avatar that reacts as the conversation goes on.
City A.M. reported on 6 October that the share of UK firms spending on public relations and management consultants fell to 4.2% in September, even as overall business spending rose 3.1% year on year and spending on AI services increased rapidly.
Anthropic launched Personal Finance, a beta that lets US Claude subscribers on Pro, Max and Ultra link bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask about their spending. Claude can read balances and transactions but cannot move money, and the feature has no ads.
Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, its AI video model, generally available. It makes 15-second clips, up from 10, lets users edit them over several chat turns and costs 30% less, at about $0.07 a second for 720p video.
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