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French startup Carbonfact believes that the best carbon accounting solutions are those that focus on one area. Therefore, the company decided to offer its carbon management and reporting tools exclusively to the fashion industry. And Carbon Fact recently raised $15 million in a round led by Alven, the French venture capital firm that already led Carbon Fact's seed round in 2022. Other investors in this round include follow-on investments from Headline and Y Combinator. Changing regulations in Europe and the US, such as the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), California's Climate Change Corporate Data Responsibility Act, and New York's…

Google is trying to create a buzz with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps, and services. So what is Gemini? How can it be used? And how does it compare to its competitors? We've created this handy guide to help you easily stay up to date with the latest developments in Gemini. This guide will be updated as new Gemini models, features, and news about Google's Gemini plans are released. What is Gemini? Gemini is Google's long-promised next-generation GenAI model family, developed by Google's AI research lab DeepMind and Google Research. Available in 3 flavors. Gemini Ultra…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that develops and tests technology for the U.S. government, businesses, and the broader public, announced Monday that a new NIST-led announced the launch of the NIST GenAI program. AI technology, such as AI that generates text and images. NIST GenAI releases benchmarks to help create “content authenticity” detection (i.e. deepfake checking) systems and encourage the development of software that identifies sources of AI-generated false and misleading information. , explains NIST on the newly launched NIST GenAI website. In a press release. “The NIST GenAI…

WWDC is still over a month away, but Apple has gotten ahead of the curve and sneaked into another event. On Tuesday, May 7th at 7am PT/10am ET, the company is scheduled to announce the latest addition to his iPad product line. Rumor has it that the list includes the new iPad Pro, iPad Air, Apple Pencil, and keyboard cases. Even more surprising, a little more than six months after the company unveiled three new M3 chips all at once, the event could also see the unveiling of a new M4 chip. Why refresh the silicon so quickly? First, word…

Last spring, founders from all over the world began their treks to Techstars’ Stockholm accelerator program. Their backdrop was solemn: A bank run was in the process of crushing Silicon Valley Bank, and the entire startup industry was on edge. The bank’s parent company, SVB Financial, was a major investor in Techstars and, like much of the startup world, Techstars had a sizable deposit there, according to sources. No one knew at the time whether those deposits would be wiped out. A day before the bank completely collapsed, Techstars Stockholm Managing Director Alfredo Jollon posted an essay on LinkedIn saying…

A week after warning investors that layoffs would be needed to avoid impending bankruptcy, EV startup Fisker Corp. is trying to “protect cash,” according to an internal email seen by TechCrunch. They are also laying off employees. Founder and CEO Henrik Fisker said in an email to employees Monday morning that the company “continues to evaluate all viable options for the business, including the possibility of a transaction. “We are fully committed to identifying potential buyers and channels to inject capital into the business.” “That being said, you need to conserve cash to be able to take advantage of these…

Fortnite maker Epic Games will bring its popular battle royale game to iPad later this year, following the EU's decision to designate Apple's iPadOS as a separate digital “gatekeeper” under Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulations. It was approved to be introduced. The company previously announced that Fortnite would return to iPhones in the EU as a result of the DMA, which forces Apple to compete with alternative app stores such as Epic's Game Store. in Post to X Epic Games praised the EU's decision on iPad on Monday, saying it will bring Fortnite to the EU's Epic Games Store “immediately”…

Meta's Threads social network recently passed the 150 million monthly user mark, and the company isn't slowing down its growth engine. To increase engagement, the social media giant is running a limited-time bonus program for Threads. Over the past few days, many accounts have posted about this program. The company confirmed to TechCrunch a limited-time invite-only program for creators that it began testing in March. Mehta said there will be “individual” bonus requirements for invited creators. For now, the program is limited to creators in the United States, but if successful, the company said it may expand the program to…

Is AI-powered IDE the future of software development? GitHub is proposing the idea. At its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco on Monday, GitHub announced Copilot Workspace. It's a development environment that lets developers brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code in natural language using what GitHub calls “Copilot-powered agents.” Jonathan Carter, head of GitHub Next, GitHub's software research and development team, pitches Workspace as a more general evolution of Copilot, GitHub's AI-powered coding assistant, to help developers understand their code. It builds on recently introduced features like Copilot Chat where you can ask questions. in natural language. “Through…

TechCrunch recently broke the news that Elon Musk's xAI has raised $6 billion at a pre-money valuation of $18 billion. The deal hasn't been finalized yet, so numbers could change. But Musk sounds like he's making an ambitious pitch to investors for his 10-month-old startup. The startup is a rival to OpenAI, of which Musk is also a co-founder, and is currently being sued for abandoning its initial promise to focus on the interests of humanity. profit. You may be wondering: Aren't there enough companies around Musk already? Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), Neuralink, The Boring Company, and more. Perhaps…