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GHARAGE Ventures launches €40M Fund I to back travel and airport technology startups

Berlin- and Singapore-based venture platform GHARAGE Ventures has launched Fund I, a €40 million early-stage fund focused on technologies shaping the future of travel infrastructure and airport retail. The fund is anchored by Gebr. Heinemann, the Hamburg-based global travel retailer, and will invest worldwide from Seed to Series A in startups developing operational technology for […]

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MyFitnessPal acquires Cal AI, the viral calorie-tracking app built by teens

MyFitnessPal Inc., the long-established digital nutrition tracking platform, has acquired Cal AI, an AI-driven calorie estimation app that amassed tens of millions of installs and substantial revenue under its young founders. Financial terms, including consideration and valuation, were not disclosed in public reporting. Cal AI began as a simple idea: put nutrition estimation into the hands […]

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The other side of ads in ChatGPT: Advertiser perspective

Since OpenAI announced it would start testing ads in ChatGPT, and the guidelines for it, they did not discuss in depth how it is gonna work for businesses interested in advertising with them. What we know is that users’ data remains private and that the advertisements will not come as a suggestion, as managed by […]

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Opinion: Your digital product is global from day one

In 2024, over 250 class action lawsuits were filed under a US federal law passed in 1988 to protect VHS rental records. The Video Privacy Protection Act was originally aimed at VHS rental stores, but plaintiffs’ firms discovered a 2022 application: embedding third-party video players on a website – without proper consent mechanisms – could […]

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The revenue divide: US vs EU Leadership

There is a moment every founder eventually faces: the strategy that got you to a million in revenue suddenly stops working at ten million. The product is good, the team is talented, and yet something in the engine is misfiring. More often than not, the culprit is not the product or the market. It is […]

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Opinion: The Sacred and the Silicon Valley

If there is something I never expected to read, it was the Pope’s opinion on artificial intelligence and its use within the Church. So when Pope Leo XIV advised priests of his diocese not to outsource homilies to artificial intelligence, the instruction read almost like a parish bulletin caught between two worlds. Except it wasn’t […]

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ElevenLabs and Google Cloud expand AI partnership with NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support

ElevenLabs, the London-based voice-AI specialist, has deepened its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to tap into expanded cloud infrastructure and the latest accelerated computing from NVIDIA, including Blackwell-class GPUs. Announced on February 26, this multi-year agreement aims to help ElevenLabs scale its voice synthesis and conversational-agent products for large-enterprise use cases. Under the renewed collaboration, […]

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AI agents, outdated training and live search grounding

An AI assistant is asked a simple question: has this company changed its CEO? It responds confidently, citing information that was accurate a few months ago. The problem is that the leadership changed last week. This is the structural limitation of many AI systems today. Large language models (LLMs) are trained on historical snapshots, which […]

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AI training efficiency: From Throughput to Goodput

Pretraining a modern large language model (LLM), often with ~100B parameters or more, typically involves thousands of accelerators and massive token corpora, running for days to months. At that scale, success is commonly reduced to two headline outcomes: Speed: how fast the system consumes training data, usually measured in tokens/second. Learning: how much progress is […]

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When malware learns to think

In a small office in Košice, Slovakia, a group of malware analysts leaned closer to glowing screens. At first look, the code before them looked like another Android Trojan: familiar routine, familiar ambitions.  But something about this one hinted at a different origin story, not just another script written by botnets or crime rings, but […]

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