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Geek Ventures, a fund that specializes in backing immigrant founders, is raising a second fund

Geek Ventures is raising a Fund II, according to a recent SEC filing.  The firm, founded in 2021 by Ihar

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Documents show UK wooed a16z for five years

U.K. documents show that the U.K.’s Department of Business and Trade spent five years convincing Andreessen Horowitz to create a

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Ambi Robotics built a clever solution to automate pallet packing

UC Berkeley spinout Ambi Robotics announced Tuesday the arrival of AmbiStack, a novel system that automates pallet packing. The system

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Waymo is reportedly building a charity ‘tipping’ feature into its robotaxi app

Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company Waymo might be planning to test a feature that will allow robotaxi riders to add a

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Who is Liang Wenfeng? DeepSeek founder comes from AI investing

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, has Silicon Valley reeling with its R1 reasoning model, which it claims uses far less

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SoftBank to invest $500M in robotics startup SkildAI

SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at

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In his new book, Peter Beinart begs American Jews: ‘Don’t look away’

(RNS) — Journalist Peter Beinart is one of the American Jewish community’s foremost critics of Israel, admired and followed by

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Eric Schmidt says DeepSeek marks a ‘turning point’ for the global AI race

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called for the United States to ramp up open source AI efforts to address the

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Italy sends first data watchdog request to DeepSeek: ‘The data of millions of Italians is at risk’

The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or possibly part of

RELIGION

The gathering force of Trump’s religious opposition

(RNS) — Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s plea for President Donald Trump “to have mercy upon the people in our country