
Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450 million in funding from returning investors such as Nvidia and Salesforce Ventures, as well as new investors including Cisco and Canadian pension fund PSP Investments, according to a source familiar the matter.
This concludes the first tranche of Cohere’s monthslong fundraising efforts, while the company is still in talks to raise more in the sam


When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death.
She told him one of the things she’d miss most is being able to ask him questions whenever she wants because he is so well read and always shares his wisdom, Bommer recalled during a recent interview with The Associated Press at his home in a leafy Berlin suburb.
That conversation sparked an idea for Bomm

Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points, a new poll shows.
About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say they would be at least

One company’s aim at becoming the Uber of the air is adding some rocket boosters.
Joby Aviation, a California-based electric air taxi company, announced that it is acquiring the autonomy division of Xwing Inc., a firm that develops autonomous technology for aircrafts.
Interestingly, Joby notes that it expects that the acquisition will help bring it closer to “fully autonomous operations in the future,” per a company press release, and that the technology will “play

Deepfakes are running amok and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to detect what’s real or not online.
Even after the release of high-profile deepfake detection tools from the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft, many remain

There are 11 congressional districts considered to be toss-ups for Democrats this November, from Pennsylvania’s 7th district, occupying parts of old steel and coal country, to New Mexico’s 2nd, an agricultural region encompassing parts of the Rio Grande. But despite their apparent differences, there’s one thing these and other Democratic battlegrounds have in common: Nearly all of them are about to get a big technological

Apple’s Vision Pro might not be a huge hit with consumers so far, but the spatial computing headset has found an unlikely backer in Lowe’s. The home improvement chain has announced plans to begin using the Vision Pro in stores to let customers who are planning a kitchen renovation visualize what the changes will look like. The pilot program will begin later this month in three markets.

Joe Gebbia, the Tesla director who exited a board committee that made key decisions about the car maker’s future, told Reuters that CEO Elon Musk had discussed purchasing a house from his start-up and that he was concerned their friendship could be seized on to at

We’ve bought two Kindles for the Aamoth household in the past year and we paid full price for each. We also have, at last count: two ancient Kindle e-book readers (one from 2009!), two dust-collecting Kindle tablets, three woefully underpowered Fire TV sticks, and the first-generation Fire TV Cube—a true powerhouse in 2019, now a shell of its former self.
Why am I telling you all this? Because even though these old devices are virtually worthless, trading them in knocks 20% off the