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Drone data scanning company Skycatch announces a $25M raise

TechCrunch

We saw the true value prop for Skycatch is operating in edge environments where there’s no connection to internet. Image Credits: The company’s technology works with off-the-shelf drones, including ones manufactured by DJI. Skycatch today announced a $25 million raise, led by ADB Ventures and Wavemaker.

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What to expect from AI in the enterprise in 2025

CIO

This year saw the initial hype and excitement over AI settle down with more realistic expectations taking hold. This is particularly true with enterprise deployments as the capabilities of existing models, coupled with the complexities of many business workflows, led to slower progress than many expected.

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EdgeQ raises $51 million to fuse AI compute and 5G within a single chip

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Rather, it’s a combination of technologies that are predicted to become critical for the future of the internet of things across industries as diverse as shipping and security. One way to get all these technologies into single devices is just to agglomerate a bunch of off-the-shelf silicon chips and jam them into a product.

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Human toddlers are inspiring new approaches to robot learning

TechCrunch

Last month, Google’s DeepMind robotics team showed off its own impressive work, in the form of RT-2 (Robotic Transformer 2). Here that means observing tasks being performed via the internet, coupled with active learning by way of remotely teleoperating the robot. The past year, we’ve seen a large number of fascinating studies.

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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I used to write custom mapreduce jobs to pull basic stats, then wait for hours for those jobs to finish. I once ran a web shop and spent a week implementing credit card payments.

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Bedrock modernizes seafloor mapping with autonomous sub and cloud-based data

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Since they were designed to do everything from harbor inspections to deep sea surveys, they couldn’t count on having a decent internet connection, and the data is useless in its raw form. “This is a big data problem — how would you design the systems to support that solution? .

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SentinelOne, an AI-based endpoint security firm, confirms $267M raise on a $3.1B valuation

TechCrunch

This year, more than ever before because of the COVID-19 pandemic, huge droves of workers and consumers have been turning to the internet to communicate, get things done and entertain themselves. The rapid fundraising, from a top-shelf list of firms, is a notable aspect of this story. Its valuation is now over $3 billion.