Google launches new healthcare-related features for Search, Android
Google on Tuesday announced new products and features aimed at healthcare use cases, including improved overviews in Google Search for health queries, medical records APIs, and new health-focused “open” AI models.
In Search, Google says it’s using AI and ranking systems to expand
Google plans to release new ‘open’ AI models for drug discovery
During a health-focused event in New York on Tuesday, Google announced that it’s developing a collection of “open” AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma.
The AI models, which Google said will be released through its Health AI Developer Foundations program later this month,
Exist is a new social wellness app that wants to help middle-age users find community
A new iOS social wellness app called Exist wants to help middle-aged consumers connect and build meaningful communities with one another as they navigate their lives and the stresses that come with it.
The app describes itself as the edgier cousin of Calm or Headspace, and its main feature is soci
WhatsApp will soon limit number of broadcast messages users and businesses can send
Chat platform WhatsApp said today that it will limit the number of broadcast messages individual users and businesses can send to curb spam on the app.
In the coming weeks, the company will start testing limits on individual broadcast messages. Under these limits, WhatsApp will put a monthly limit
TurinTech reveals $20M in backing to fix problems in ‘vibe coding’
So-called “vibe coding” with LLM-driven tools like Cursor Composer — a term coined by renowned computer scientist Andrej Karpathy — describes a hands-off approach to writing code using GenAI models, and it has really taken off recently. According to Y Combinator, one-quarter of
Confirmed: Google buys Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security
Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company’s parent company Alphabet is buying Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32 billion in an all-cash transaction. The deal has now been confirmed.
A source described the transaction as a $33 billion deal previously. That in
Nerdio nabs $500M to power virtual desktops on Azure
Nerdio, a platform designed to simplify how companies deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies, has raised $500 million in a Series C round of funding.
The Chicago-based startup says its valuation has now quadrupled since its Series B round two years ago and is now firmly in unicorn territor
YC-backed food supply startup Vendease restructures employees' salaries
Y Combinator-backed Nigerian food procurement startup Vendease has changed its employee pay structure and is seeking fresh capital, technewss has learned.
This is after laying off 44% of its workforce — around 120 employees — last month, marking its second round of job cuts in five months. In
GrubMarket raises $50M at $3.5B+ valuation to build AI for the $1 trillion food-distribution industry
U.S. president Donald Trump's wide-ranging tariff hikes are already resulting in growth forecasts being cut amid an uncertain public mood — all of which will inevitably impact the technology sector. On Tuesday, however, food e-commerce startup GrubMarket seemed impervious to these macroeconom
Google, Speedinvest back Kenya's Leta, which uses AI to make logistics cheaper
African businesses pay up to four times the global average to transport goods, driving up prices for essentials like food and medicine. Logistics make up 75% of product costs on the continent, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB). Many of these businesses also rely on manual logistics,
Waymo’s milestone SFO mapping permit comes with strings attached
Waymo has been given permission to map roadways at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) via a temporary permit — the first step in the Alphabet company’s bid to unlock a potentially lucrative use case for its robotaxis.
The temporary permit, which was announced Monday evening by S
Rippling sues Deel, Deel denies ‘all legal wrongdoing,’ and Slack is the main witness
It's gloves off in one of the more tense rivalries in the world of startups. HR company Rippling Monday morning announced a lawsuit against Deel, another big player in the same space. The dramatic 50-page complaint alleges racketeering, misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference,
How to stop doomscrolling
The world is bad sometimes, but it feels even worse if you can’t stop staring into the all-consuming abyss that is the 6-inch screen of a smartphone, following you through space and time. It taunts you with its compact, light build that’s small enough to slip into your pocket and take a
This app limits your screen time by making you literally touch grass
If you’ve ever spent way too long scrolling through endless feeds about nothing, you may have been advised to touch grass. It’s a tongue-in-cheek suggestion, basically telling you to log off and go outside. But one developer took the concept to the next level.
Rhys Kentish launched an