Impressions from a London test ride in a car using Wayve's self-driving tech; Wayve has raised $1.3B since its launch and is testing cars with Level 2+ autonomy
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Analysis: the UK has 29 of Europe's top 150 startup hubs, followed by Germany with 19; Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which has incubated 1K+ companies, ranks on top
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Paris is vying with London as Europe's top AI hotspot, with 34 of the 40 best-performing startups at the Paris-based Station F incubator in 2024 focused on AI
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In a recent discussion, YC partners said the incubator was deluged with applications from startups building vertical AI agents, which could become the new SaaS
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UNESCO: overreliance on remote learning tech during COVID-19 led to “staggering” education inequality and hindered talk of more equitable, lower-tech options
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies … John Thornhill / Financial Times : ‘Edtech’ offers no escape from reality Benjamin Godfrey / Coinspeaker : UNESCO Rele...
An amateur Go player beat a top-ranked AI system in 14 of 15 games, using tactics suggested by a computer program that had analyzed the AI system for weaknesses
But a human just trounced one of the world's best Go AIs 14 games to 1: https://arstechnica.com/... … Tweets: @0xabad1dea : the overwhelming moral of the story recently is that AI is terrifyingly dang...
India's government-backed nonprofit Open Network for Digital Commerce is holding trials in over 85 cities, including Bengaluru, after raising $22M
Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times : Tweets: @tomvalletti , @johnthornhillft , @jamesplloyd , and @prasannavishy Tweets: Tommaso Valletti / @tomvalletti : Current trials in India. An open-source netwo...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says GDPR shows that “regulation can get it wrong” and “we are still a small part of the overall information ecosystem”
For Google, the Techlash arrived with a vengeance last week. After years of mounting angst about the power of Big Tech … Tweets: @rikefranke , @financialtimes , @rachelcoldicutt , @mikebutcher , and ...
Sources: Zuckerberg told staff Facebook won't change policies because of “threat to a small percent of our revenue”, expects advertisers to return “soon enough”
Home entertainment today … Dominic Rushe / The Guardian : Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers' boycott of Facebook will end ‘soon enough’ Bloomberg : Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Under Siege After Facebook Scr...