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CB Insights - State of Venture Q1’25 Report
[Investing]
2025/04/14 09:10
AI grabs 1 in 5 venture deals. Early-stage deal sizes balloon. Billion-dollar M&A deals sweep the tech landscape. Here’s everything you need to know about VC.Venture capital funding reached the highest level in nearly 3 years in Q1’25 — led by OpenAI’s mammoth $40B round — as AI continues to reshape the venture ecosystem. Opportunities across stages and geographies have fueled growth i...
(Patent) Apple Won A Patent for All Glass Device Embodiments for Apple Watch, Mac & an iPhone
[Tech]
2025/04/14 09:09
Apple won a patent for all-glass device embodiments for Apple Watch, Mac & an iPhone that allows Imagery on both Front and Backsides.Apple has a long string of patents that demonstrates their ongoing work on future glass device embodiments going back to at least 2014 regarding an all-glass iPhone. Other patents could be reviewed here: 01, 02, 03 and 04 (for an Apple Watch). Today, the U.S....
(PDF) BCG - It’s Time for Marketers to Move Beyond the Linear Funnel
[Consumer]
2025/04/14 09:08
Marketers must plan their media buys based on what truly drives influence, and they must lean into AI to power execution.Marketers have traditionally force-fit touchpoints into a linear funnel model to guide strategy, budget allocation, and communication.The “influence map” is a reimagining of the linear funnel that reduces artificial barriers between stages and ensures the right level of cus...
(Video) Introducing FlashBot Arm : Semi-Humanoid Embodied AI Service Robot
[Product]
2025/04/14 09:07
This looks like the setup for a great knock-knock joke, but we can't think of a punchline.While we've heard a lot about humanoid robots lately, the technical requirements for their bipedal walking gait will likely keep them quite expensive – and thus little-seen. By contrast, the "semi-humanoid" FlashBot Arm is something you might actually encounter sometime soon.The bot is being manufactured...
Sodium-Iron Battery Startup to Challenge Li-Ion for Extended Storage
[Tech]
2025/04/14 09:06
Manufacturing partner, Horien, in Switzerland has so far been producing sodium metal chloride batteries in factories like this, but will also take on production of Inlyte's sodium-iron batteries.We've long relied on lithium-ion batteries for long-term energy storage, but they can be expensive to produce and maintain over the years. California-based startup Inlyte wants to offer a scalable alter...
U.S. Electric Vehicle Interest Steady at Lower 2024 Level
[Consumer]
2025/04/14 09:05
Groups that once were biggest fans of EVs like Tesla show steepest decline in wanting to own one now. Over the past two years, the only demographic group surveyed that saw an increase in their interest in EVs was Republicans, and that growth was negligible.Tesla is responsible for creating the electric vehicle market and in many ways is synonymous with EVs. It’s also possible TeslaTSLA $252.93...
Le Creuset Reimagines Its Original Color 100 Years Later
[Design]
2025/04/14 09:04
The French cookware brand reinterpreted its signature color to celebrate a century in business.Le Creuset turned 100, and to celebrate, it released a new cookware collection in a hue inspired by its original color, Flame.Named Flamme Dorée, French for “golden flame,” the set includes round and oval dutch ovens, a braiser, and a saucepan in a rich orange gradient with a shimmering gold finish...
If Sony Walkman, YouTube, Audible, and Apple made Car Things, This is How They’d Look
[Design]
2025/04/14 09:03
Spotify officially discontinued their first and only hardware product – the Car Thing in December 2024, leaving us entering 2025 with a palpable car media player-shaped void in our hearts. But here’s a question – what if we just had other companies make Car Things instead of Spotify? This new ChatGPT AI feature allowed us to imagine what the Car Thing would look like if it was built by other...
Daily Report : HBR - How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025
[Daily Report]
2025/04/12 09:11
1. HBR: 2025년, 사람들이 생성형 AI를 활용하는 실제 방식 정서적 활용으로의 전환 가속화: 생성형 AI의 주요 활용 사례가 기술 지원에서 감정적·자기계발적 활용으로 옮겨가며, ‘치료와 동반자 역할’이 올해 1위를 차지했고, ‘삶의 정리’, ‘목적 찾기’도 상위권에 새롭게 등장한 이유는 자기실현에 대한 수요 증가 때문. 사용자 활용 테마 구조 변화: 전체 사례 중 개인 및 직업 지원이 31%로 가장 큰 비중을 차지하며...
