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I keep buying these,” said one shopper, who has at least six pairs…

As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests. In the United Kingdom, complaints to the housing ombudsman more than doubled since the introduction of ChatGPT, rising from 2600 in 2022 to just over 7,000 last year. The United…

Bending Spoons is continuing its trend of buying once-sought-after software companies for pennies on the dollar. This time, the Italian company is buying Miro for $1.36 billion in cash (equity value of $1.79 billion), a mighty dip in valuation for the once-hot workplace collaboration startup that was awarded a price tag of $17.5 billion in…

Dennis P. Calvert is the CEO of BioLargo, a cleantech company that commercializes technologies for energy and environmental challenges. gettyHow do you make the trek from breakthrough innovation to real-world impact? Innovation in healthcare and environmental science is often celebrated for the eureka moments of discovery. But what rarely gets equal attention is the long,…

Christian Stegh, CTO and VP of Strategy at eGroup Enabling Technologies. getty​Just as GenAI begins to show significant ROI, a new layer of complexity enters the equation. After hooking users with unlimited access, AI providers are implementing consumption-based billing for advanced capabilities such as coding assistants and AI agents. The AI subsidy era has ended,…

Cognition’s valuation multiple is higher than Cursor’s was before selling to SpaceX…

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Sometimes founders search high and low for the right startup idea, while other times it comes to them. Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli are two of the lucky ones. Over and over again, they heard the same thing from fusion companies: “We would ideally buy many of the components to make our our control system,…