AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads are over-provisioned, and cloud costs…
Author: Kate Park
Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales |
As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended. Qodo, a…
Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch |
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is…
Why China’s humanoid robot industry is winning the early market |
China’s humanoid robots grabbed global attention with kung fu flips at the nation’s televised Spring Festival Gala, while Chinese phone maker Honor is set to…
China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead |
While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new…
Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data |
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of…
Upwind raises $250M at $1.5B valuation to continue building ‘runtime’ cloud security |
From the outside, Upwind Security looks like it’s had a smooth journey so far. Just four years in, the cloud security startup is now worth…
South Korea’s Edenlux set for US debut of eye-strain wellness device |
People around the world now spend hours a day on their smartphones. On average, daily smartphone use exceeds three hours, and for many adults, total…