March 5, 2025

Robotics

Waymo robotaxis available in Austin exclusively through Uber

After once being rivals, Uber and Waymo first partnered in late 2023. | Source: Uber Waymo robotaxis are now available in Austin exclusively through Uber. Waymo said riders who request an UberX, Uber Green, Comfort, or Comfort Electric could be matched with a Waymo fully autonomous all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicle. Uber riders will be able to opt for a human-driven vehicle if they prefer. Both services will be priced the same, the companies said. Previously,

Brianna Wessling March 5, 2025

What Grand Theft Auto V’s PC update says about furnishing older games with current tech

Despite being a decade old, the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V is getting updates. And that’s smart for the future of the series.Read More

Imran Khan March 5, 2025

Overcome Failing Document Ingestion & RAG Strategies with Agentic Knowledge Distillation | Towards Data Science

Introduction Many generative AI use cases still revolve around Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), yet consistently fall short of user expectations. Despite the growing body of research on RAG improvements and even adding Agents into the process, many solutions still fail to return exhaustive results, miss information that is critical but infrequently mentioned in the documents, require multiple search iterations, and generally struggle to reconcile key themes across multiple documents. To top it all off, many

Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi March 5, 2025

Revenue prediction startup Gong surpasses $300M in annualized revenue, indicating potential IPO path | TechCrunch

Gong, a startup that helps companies predict their revenue from potential sales, has surpassed $300 million in annualized recurring revenue, the company announced on Wednesday. Since its founding in 2016, Gong has used AI to analyze customer interactions. The addition of generative AI capabilities in recent years has helped to fuel the company’s growth. “We’re seeing great momentum. That’s why we’re excited to share the numbers,” Gong CEO Amit Bendov told TechCrunch. Gong was last

Marina Temkin March 5, 2025

Software

AI-Driven Scientific Simulations for Cities and Industry: Startups of The Year 2024 Nominee, SimZero | HackerNoon

Hey Hackers, SimZero has been nominated in HackerNoon’s annual Startups of The Year awards in Research, Machine Learning and AR/VR. Here’s why we deserve your vote: Meet SimZero We are a deep tech startup that fuses AI, physics, and computational methods to create a unified solution that allows industrial virtual models to replicate reality in real time. With the ability to easily add scientific future event predictions or conduct high-resolution virtual experiments, we empower companies

SimZero March 5, 2025

$RNT: The Token For Real Estate Tokenization | HackerNoon

CORAL GABLES, Florida, February 26th, 2025/Chainwire/–Reental’s RNT token is revolutionizing the future of real estate investment through blockchain technology. Reental, a leading Spanish proptech company specializing in real estate tokenization, has successfully launched RNT, a revolutionary utility token designed to enhance investment opportunities and transform the global real estate market. With a thriving community of over 21,877 investors from 90 countries, Reental is making real estate investment more accessible, transparent, and profitable through blockchain innovation.

Chainwire March 5, 2025

Exclusive: Not all cancer patients need chemo — Ataraxis AI raised $20M to personalize treatment

Artificial intelligence is a big trend in cancer care, and it’s mostly focused on detecting cancer at the earliest possible stage. That makes a lot of sense, given that cancer is less deadly the earlier it’s detected. But fewer are asking another fundamental question: If someone does have cancer, is an aggressive treatment like chemotherapy necessary? That’s the problem Ataraxis AI is trying to solve. The New York-based startup is focused on using AI to

Charles Rollet March 5, 2025

Robotics

Amazon to discuss its robotics evolution at Robotics Summit & Expo – The Robot Report

Amazon’s warehouse robots include Sparrow, which sorts individual items for employees to package; Cardinal, which lifts packages and puts them in carts; and Robin, which lifts and sorts packages before they’re brought to the outbound dock. | Source: Amazon Amazon currently operates more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and carry packages across its facilities. Now the world’s largest robot operator, the company has come a long way since it acquired Kiva Systems in 2012.

The Robot Report Staff March 5, 2025

Ryan Breslow is back as CEO of fintech Bolt, after years of controversy | TechCrunch

Ryan Breslow is once again the CEO of Bolt, the fintech company told TechCrunch on Wednesday. Bolt shared a communication that recently went out to investors in which Breslow wrote that “following a challenging few years,” he had been reinstated as Bolt’s CEO with “unanimous approval” of the board of the one-click checkout company. Justin Grooms, who has served as interim CEO since last March, will now serve as president of Bolt. Grooms, the company’s

Mary Ann Azevedo March 5, 2025

Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently | TechCrunch

Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn’t done building. Patterson told TechCrunch that a few years ago she had the itch to start something new again, but was unsure she had

Rebecca Szkutak March 5, 2025