Perplexity AI's new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages

AI-powered summaries of webpages are a feature that you will find in many AI-centric tools these days. The next step for some of these tools is to prepare detailed and well-formatted web pages for your search queries. The Arc browser is doing this to some extent through its Arc Search …...Read More

Cylib wants to own EV battery recycling in Europe

A surge of battery recycling startups have emerged in Europe in a bid to tap into the next big opportunity in the EV market: battery waste. Among them is Cylib, a German-based startup with a pitch automakers may find financially compelling. The company says it can extract pure forms of …...Read More

Amazon gets FAA approval to expand US drone deliveries

Amazon has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly its delivery drones longer distances, the company announced on Thursday. Amazon says it can now expand its Prime Air service, which uses delivery drones to fly individual packages, to more customers. The FAA requires that operators maintain …...Read More

Former Priceline execs debut Plannin, a booking platform that uses travel influencers to help plan trips

Andrew Loewen and Randy Schartner, co-founders of Hotelsbycity.com and former Priceline executives, just announced their latest project: Plannin, a global travel booking platform that empowers creators to monetize their hotel recommendations and share travel-focused content. As the creator economy continues to ramp up in value, estimated to generate $250 billion …...Read More

Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform

Redpanda, the well-funded Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that competes with the likes of Confluent, on Thursday announced that it has acquired open-source stream-processing platform Benthos. The two companies did not disclose the purchase price, but it’s worth noting that Redpanda raised a $150 million Series C round a year ago …...Read More

Amazon is rolling out AI voice search to Fire TV devices

Amazon is rolling out an AI-powered search feature to Fire TV that would enable Alexa to answer open-ended questions about TV shows and movies, and deliver more specific recommendations tailored to users’ preferences. Announced at Amazon’s annual devices event last September, the feature is powered by a proprietary large language …...Read More

Fintech startup Forward grabs $16M to take on Stripe, lead future of integrated payments

After Brandon Lloyd sold his second company, Bypass, a payments and point-of-sale software company for sports and entertainment, to Fiserv in 2020, he dove more into the payments industry and realized something: Software companies were getting a raw deal from the payments provider industry. “Companies like Stripe originally built that …...Read More

Rhea reaps $10M more led by Thiel

Fertility remains a pressing concern around the world — birthrates are down in many countries, and infertility rates (that is, the ability to conceive at all) are up. And given the emotional struggles people face when coping with infertility, it’s not surprising that the opportunity is so big. Yet equally …...Read More

Tech giants form an industry group to help develop next-gen AI chip components

Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech heavyweights are establishing a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group, to guide the development of the components that link together AI accelerator chips in data centers. Announced Thursday, the UALink Promoter Group — which also counts AMD (but not …...Read More

Ambani fires opening salvo in fintech battle, launches JioFinance app

Indian conglomerate Reliance Group is making its boldest consumer-facing move yet into financial services with the launch of JioFinance, an app that aims to be a one-stop shop for digital payments, loans and insurance. The app, currently in beta, will allow users to pay bills, access digital banking services and …...Read More