AI note-taking app Fireflies.ai hits $1b valuation Summary Fireflies.ai, an AI meeting assistant based in San Francisco, has surpassed a US$1 billion valuation after completing a tender offer that provided liquidity for 10–15% of early team members. The company claims use by 75% of Fortune 500 firms and more than 20 million users across 500,000 […]
Sequoia Capital leads $75m round for industrial software firm Summary Nominal, a Los Angeles-based industrial software startup founded in 2022, has raised US$75 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and existing investors including Lux Capital, General Catalyst and Founders Fund. The company builds software to help hardware […]
Morocco’s Jobzyn raises pre-seed led by Janngo Capital to scale AI-powered hiring across Africa Summary Jobzyn, a Moroccan HR tech startup founded in 2023 by Simo Zizi and Abdelbassite Badou, has closed an undisclosed pre-seed round led by Pan‑African VC Janngo Capital with participation from Digital Africa and angel investors. The capital will fund product […]
Who’s Afrobeats’ GOAT? What AI rankings reveal about global bias Summary TechCabal’s Opeyemi Kareem asked five AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, Perplexity and Grok) to rank the greatest Afrobeats artists and explain their reasoning. The piece documents wide inconsistencies: models changed answers when pressed for sources or justification, shifted from subjective measures (influence, artistry, […]
Trump’s FCC Just Used A Fake ‘Investigation’ To Shower AT&T And Elon Musk With Billions In Valuable Spectrum Summary The article argues that the Trump-era FCC, led by Brendan Carr, weaponised a purported “investigation” into Dish Network / EchoStar to pressure the company into selling off highly valuable wireless spectrum to politically connected buyers. Over […]
Business Insider Pulls 40+ Essays After Getting Conned By AI-Using Scammers Summary Business Insider has removed more than 40 personal-essay pieces after investigations revealed a wider fraud operation that used AI-generated content and fake bylines (notably names like “Margaux Blanchard”) to dupe multiple outlets. Reporting from the Washington Post and the Daily Beast shows the […]
Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden Summary Researchers chased a simple but crucial number: how much energy leading AI models use to generate a single response. After months of opacity, companies this summer released per-query estimates—OpenAI (0.34 watt‑hours) and Google (about 0.24 watt‑hours)—but those figures are incomplete and focused on […]
The Download: meet our AI innovators, and what happens when therapists use AI covertly Summary Today’s edition of The Download highlights MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 for AI in 2025, profiles Yichao “Peak” Ji and the viral Manus app, and examines a worrying trend: therapists secretly using ChatGPT during sessions. The newsletter also […]
Adapting to new threats with proactive risk management Summary This sponsored piece from MIT Technology Review Insights (in partnership with Hitachi Vantara) argues that as digital systems become more interconnected and attackers get smarter, businesses must move from reactive security to business-wide, proactive cyber resilience. The article uses high-profile incidents to show the cost of […]
Texas banned lab-grown meat. What’s next for the industry? Article Meta Article Date: 2025-09-11T08:00:00+00:00 Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/11/1123512/texas-lab-grown-meat/ Article Image: Summary Texas has enacted a two-year moratorium on the sale of cultivated (lab-grown) meat, effective 1 September 2025. The ban — which runs until September 2027 — was followed a day later by a lawsuit from […]
