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Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their drea

"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">AI has transformative potential. But if you ask the co-founders of Modular, a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity. Big Tech companies have made helpful con

Walmart is expanding its array of virtual try-on services for shoppers with today’s news that it’s planning to acquire Memomi, an AR optical tech company and current Walmart partner offering a virtual try-on experience for eyewear. Deal terms were not disclosed, but Memomi has enabled d

Gloat, an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led by Generation Investment Management, bringing the startup’s total raised to $192 million. Generation, notably, is chaired by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. In an email

Opaque Systems, a startup developing what it describes as “AI for confidential computing,” today announced that it closed a $22 mlion Series A funding round led by Walden Catalyst Partners with participation from Storm Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Intel Capital, Race Capital, The House

Elon Musk is unabashed about his obsession with manufacturing. Over the years, Tesla has gradually gained recognition in the manufacturing world through improving its production quality. Now two Tesla veterans want to share their smart factory know-how with other automakers through a nascent startu

If this year’s Lunabotics competition is any indication, there’s a bright future ahead for the surface of the moon — and below it. The NASA-hosted challenge recently saw 39 teams of university students building lunar mining robots, which were tasked with digging up rocks in simulated

Integration platform AI Squared announced today the closing of a $6 million seed round led by NEA with participation from Ridgeline Partners. Launched in 2021, AI Squared helps companies adopt artificial intelligence by using a low-code platform to integrate it into existing applications in a timel

Onstage at re:Mars this week, Amazon showcased a developing Alexa feature meant to mimic the flow of natural language. Conversation between two humans rarely follows some predefined structure. It goes to strange and unexpected places. One topic segues into another, as participants inject their live

Atitsre:Marsconference,AmazontodayannouncedthelaunchofCodeWhisperer,anAIpairprogrammingtoolsimilartoGitHub’sCopilotthatcanautocompleteentirefunctionsbasedononlyacommentorafewkeystrokes.Thecompanytrainedthesystem,whichcurrentlysupportsJava,JavaScriptandPython,onbillionsoflinesofpubliclyavailab

IttakesmassiveamountsofdatatotrainAImodels.Butsometimes,thatdatasimplyisn’tavailablefromreal-worldsources,sodatascientistsusesyntheticdatatomakeupforthat.Inmachinevisionapplications,thatmeanscreatingdifferentenvironmentsandobjectstotrainrobotsorself-drivingcars,forexample.Butwhiletherearequit

The relatively controlled environments of university campuses have long served as ideal testing grounds for autonomous technology, and they’re proving particularly effective for sidewalk delivery robots. In the latest move to introduce autonomous delivery to college campuses, early last week,

Evinced is on a mission to make as many web properties accessible as possible, and to do that means getting that work done as early as possible — which means integrating with the development process from the beginning. The company is continuing this “shift left” mentality with $38 mil

As video-led podcasts become highly favored by listeners, Podcastle, which was primarily an audio recording and editing studio, is introducing a new feature that enables podcasters to conduct high-resolution video interviews or solo recordings. Now, Podcastle will allow users to invite and video r