SOUS secures €4M to develop AI growth tools for restaurants

Amsterdam-basedSOUS, an AI-powered growth platform for independent food and beveragebusinesses, has raised €4 million in seed funding. The round was led by Seed +Speed Ventures, with participation fro…

London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure
London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure

Granola, the London-based AI meeting app that records conversations without dropping a bot into the call, has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. The rou…

Granola raises $125M at $1.5BN valuation

Granola, the AI note-taking app, has bagged a $125m funding round, elevating its valuation to $1.5bn, hitting unicorn startus, it announced today. The funding round was led by Index Ventures, with par…

Y Combinator-backed Mandel AI raises $3.9M to automate global supply chains

Mandel AI has raised $3.9 million Seed funding to build coordination for global supply chains. The startup has developed an AI supply chain coordinator that helps manufacturers manage supplier coord…

Meta cuts hundreds more jobs across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales as AI spending doubles
Meta cuts hundreds more jobs across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales as AI spending doubles

Meta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected employees. The layoffs are the latest in a rolling s…

Gemini on Google TV can now answer your questions, teach concepts, and deliver sports briefs

Google is adding Gemini features to Google TV that let you ask questions, explore topics, and stay updated with sports briefs, all in one place.

This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a free new AI tool for mathematicians, designed to discover mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems. The tool, called Axplorer, is a redesign of an existing one called PatternBoost that François Charton, now a research scientist at Axiom, co-developed in 2024…

Google’s TurboQuant reduces AI LLM cache memory capacity requirements by at least six times — up to 8x performance boost on Nvidia H100 GPUs, compresses KV caches to 3 bits with no accuracy loss

In benchmarks on Nvidia H100 GPUs, 4-bit TurboQuant delivered up to an eight-times performance increase in computing attention logits compared to unquantized 32-bit keys.

Gemini, ChatGPT and most other AI chatbots think alike, and it’s bad for human creativity

AI chatbots may feel creative on their own, but new research shows they often converge on the same ideas, raising concerns that relying on them could quietly narrow human creativity.

With $8M, Eunice brings institutional-grade AI to due diligence

Eunice,a London-based company building due diligence infrastructure for regulatedmarkets, has raised $8 million in a combined seed and pre-seed funding roundled by Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest, w…