@scottjp.bsky.social
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How is deep learning helping to make driverless vehicles smarter and safer? 🤖 🚘
In the latest episode, I chatted to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about self-driving cars.
Available wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/robottalkpod
In the latest episode, I chatted to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about self-driving cars.
Available wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/robottalkpod
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
How is deep learning helping to make driverless vehicles smarter and safer? 🤖 🚘
In the latest episode, I chatted to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about self-driving cars.
Available wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/robottalkpod
In the latest episode, I chatted to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about self-driving cars.
Available wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/robottalkpod
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learn from @HustleFundVC
small checks move faster than big egos.
small checks move faster than big egos.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
learn from @HustleFundVC
small checks move faster than big egos.
small checks move faster than big egos.
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Flex Raises $60 Million to Expand Unified Financial Platform
Flex, a San Francisco-based AI-driven fintech startup, has raised $60 million in funding led by Portage Ventures, boosting its valuation to approximately $500 million. The investment brings Flex’s total equity raised to $105 million and…
Flex, a San Francisco-based AI-driven fintech startup, has raised $60 million in funding led by Portage Ventures, boosting its valuation to approximately $500 million. The investment brings Flex’s total equity raised to $105 million and…
Flex Raises $60 Million to Expand Unified Financial Platform
Flex, a San Francisco-based AI-driven fintech startup, has raised $60 million in funding led by Portage Ventures, boosting its valuation to approximately $500 million. The investment brings Flex’s total equity raised to $105 million and will be used to accelerate product innovation and expand its 80-member team. Bridging the Mid-Sized Business Gap Flex was founded by…
therealpreneur.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Flex Raises $60 Million to Expand Unified Financial Platform
Flex, a San Francisco-based AI-driven fintech startup, has raised $60 million in funding led by Portage Ventures, boosting its valuation to approximately $500 million. The investment brings Flex’s total equity raised to $105 million and…
Flex, a San Francisco-based AI-driven fintech startup, has raised $60 million in funding led by Portage Ventures, boosting its valuation to approximately $500 million. The investment brings Flex’s total equity raised to $105 million and…
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Don't forget to send me your questions for Elmira!
What would you love to know about child-robot interaction?
#Robots #Robotics #HRI
What would you love to know about child-robot interaction?
#Robots #Robotics #HRI
What would you love to know about #robots for children and education? 🤖
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Dr. Elmira Yadollahi from @lancasteruni.bsky.social about how children interact with and relate to robots.
Send me your questions for Elmira in the comments!
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Dr. Elmira Yadollahi from @lancasteruni.bsky.social about how children interact with and relate to robots.
Send me your questions for Elmira in the comments!
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Curvestone AI Secures $4M to Fix AI’s Accuracy Problem in Regulated Workflows
AI tools today excel at single tasks, often achieving more than 98% accuracy. Yet in complex, multi-step workflows — especially in financial services, legal, and insurance — small errors quickly accumulate. By the final…
AI tools today excel at single tasks, often achieving more than 98% accuracy. Yet in complex, multi-step workflows — especially in financial services, legal, and insurance — small errors quickly accumulate. By the final…
Curvestone AI Secures $4M to Fix AI’s Accuracy Problem in Regulated Workflows
AI tools today excel at single tasks, often achieving more than 98% accuracy. Yet in complex, multi-step workflows — especially in financial services, legal, and insurance — small errors quickly accumulate. By the final step, overall accuracy can plummet to just 30–40%. This “compound error” problem is one of the biggest barriers preventing enterprises from adopting AI at scale. Curvestone AI, a London-based startup, is solving this challenge with a workflow automation platform engineered to maintain consistent accuracy across entire document-heavy and compliance-driven processes.
therealpreneur.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Curvestone AI Secures $4M to Fix AI’s Accuracy Problem in Regulated Workflows
AI tools today excel at single tasks, often achieving more than 98% accuracy. Yet in complex, multi-step workflows — especially in financial services, legal, and insurance — small errors quickly accumulate. By the final…
AI tools today excel at single tasks, often achieving more than 98% accuracy. Yet in complex, multi-step workflows — especially in financial services, legal, and insurance — small errors quickly accumulate. By the final…
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Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Brevo Secures €500M to Build a Global European CRM & AI Engagement Leader
Businesses often juggle marketing tools that operate in silos—email in one app, CRM in another, and SMS or chat scattered across separate platforms. This fragmentation creates inconsistent customer messaging, incomplete…
Businesses often juggle marketing tools that operate in silos—email in one app, CRM in another, and SMS or chat scattered across separate platforms. This fragmentation creates inconsistent customer messaging, incomplete…
Brevo Secures €500M to Build a Global European CRM & AI Engagement Leader
Businesses often juggle marketing tools that operate in silos—email in one app, CRM in another, and SMS or chat scattered across separate platforms. This fragmentation creates inconsistent customer messaging, incomplete data, and limited visibility into who customers are or how they behave. Paris-based customer engagement platform Brevo solves this by unifying email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, CRM, automation, and customer data tools in a single system.
therealpreneur.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Brevo Secures €500M to Build a Global European CRM & AI Engagement Leader
Businesses often juggle marketing tools that operate in silos—email in one app, CRM in another, and SMS or chat scattered across separate platforms. This fragmentation creates inconsistent customer messaging, incomplete…
Businesses often juggle marketing tools that operate in silos—email in one app, CRM in another, and SMS or chat scattered across separate platforms. This fragmentation creates inconsistent customer messaging, incomplete…
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Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) is a Professor of Computer Science at @ox.ac.uk and a Senior Staff Research Scientist at @waymo.bsky.social UK. His research focuses on deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning.
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/12/05/e...
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/12/05/e...
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) is a Professor of Computer Science at @ox.ac.uk and a Senior Staff Research Scientist at @waymo.bsky.social UK. His research focuses on deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning.
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/12/05/e...
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/12/05/e...
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Why Day One Ventures’ Masha Bucher thinks VCs and storytelling go hand-in-hand
Why Day One Ventures' Masha Bucher thinks VCs and storytelling go hand-in-hand | TechCrunch
Day One Ventures' Masha Bucher doesn't just invest in startups — she also tells their stories. Her integrated model aligns incentives and proves conviction matters more than contracts.
techcrunch.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Why Day One Ventures’ Masha Bucher thinks VCs and storytelling go hand-in-hand
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Don't forget to send me your questions for Christine!
What have you always wanted to know about robot senses?
#Robots #Robotics #Sensing
What have you always wanted to know about robot senses?
#Robots #Robotics #Sensing
What would you love to know about #robot hearing? 🤖
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Dr. Christine Evers from @unisouthampton.bsky.social about helping robots understand the world around them through sound.
Send me your questions for Christine in the comments below!
#Robotics #Sensing
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Dr. Christine Evers from @unisouthampton.bsky.social about helping robots understand the world around them through sound.
Send me your questions for Christine in the comments below!
#Robotics #Sensing
December 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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What would you love to know about #robots for children and education? 🤖
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Dr. Elmira Yadollahi from @lancasteruni.bsky.social about how children interact with and relate to robots.
Send me your questions for Elmira in the comments!
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Dr. Elmira Yadollahi from @lancasteruni.bsky.social about how children interact with and relate to robots.
Send me your questions for Elmira in the comments!
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
What would you love to know about #robots for children and education? 🤖
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Dr. Elmira Yadollahi from @lancasteruni.bsky.social about how children interact with and relate to robots.
Send me your questions for Elmira in the comments!
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Dr. Elmira Yadollahi from @lancasteruni.bsky.social about how children interact with and relate to robots.
Send me your questions for Elmira in the comments!
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Got questions about #robot astronauts? 🤖 🚀
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Jamie Palmer from Icarus Robotics about building a robotic labour force to perform routine and risky tasks in orbit.
Send me your questions for Jamie in the comments!
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Jamie Palmer from Icarus Robotics about building a robotic labour force to perform routine and risky tasks in orbit.
Send me your questions for Jamie in the comments!
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Got questions about #robot astronauts? 🤖 🚀
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Jamie Palmer from Icarus Robotics about building a robotic labour force to perform routine and risky tasks in orbit.
Send me your questions for Jamie in the comments!
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Jamie Palmer from Icarus Robotics about building a robotic labour force to perform routine and risky tasks in orbit.
Send me your questions for Jamie in the comments!
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What can robots teach us about the human form? 🤖
In the latest episode, I chatted to Dr. Chapa Sirithunge from the University of Cambridge about human-inspired #robot anatomy.
Available wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/robottalkpod
#Robots #Robotics #BioInspired
In the latest episode, I chatted to Dr. Chapa Sirithunge from the University of Cambridge about human-inspired #robot anatomy.
Available wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/robottalkpod
#Robots #Robotics #BioInspired
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
What can robots teach us about the human form? 🤖
In the latest episode, I chatted to Dr. Chapa Sirithunge from the University of Cambridge about human-inspired #robot anatomy.
Available wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/robottalkpod
#Robots #Robotics #BioInspired
In the latest episode, I chatted to Dr. Chapa Sirithunge from the University of Cambridge about human-inspired #robot anatomy.
Available wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/robottalkpod
#Robots #Robotics #BioInspired
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Engineers at MIT have developed artificial tendons made from tough and flexible hydrogel, which they attached to lab-grown muscle to control the fingers of a robotic gripper. 🤖 techxplore.com/news/2025-12... #Robots #Robotics
Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made...
techxplore.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Engineers at MIT have developed artificial tendons made from tough and flexible hydrogel, which they attached to lab-grown muscle to control the fingers of a robotic gripper. 🤖 techxplore.com/news/2025-12... #Robots #Robotics
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How do you decide where to sell first, online, wholesale, or retail? Tomorrow on #TheBigIdea podcast, I’m talking with Melissa Ben-Ishay, founder and CEO of Baked by Melissa. Available via @yahoofinance.com or wherever you get your podcasts!
#SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #FoodAndBeverage
#SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #FoodAndBeverage
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
How do you decide where to sell first, online, wholesale, or retail? Tomorrow on #TheBigIdea podcast, I’m talking with Melissa Ben-Ishay, founder and CEO of Baked by Melissa. Available via @yahoofinance.com or wherever you get your podcasts!
#SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #FoodAndBeverage
#SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #FoodAndBeverage
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Day One's Masha Bucher joines Equity to unpack why traditional PR is broken, how she picks founders, and why every startup founder now needs to be chronically online.
This VC charges $0 for PR, and has 12 unicorns to show for it
Day One's Masha Bucher joines Equity to unpack why traditional PR is broken, how she picks founders, and why every startup founder now needs to be chronically online.
techcrunch.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Day One's Masha Bucher joines Equity to unpack why traditional PR is broken, how she picks founders, and why every startup founder now needs to be chronically online.
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Resilient capital stacks: "the art and science of layering multiple forms of capital — equity, debt, grants, guarantees and even community partnerships — so that a project can weather risks & remain viable under stress," writes Nick Gower of @hipinvestor.bsky.social.
impactalpha.com/from-funding...
impactalpha.com/from-funding...
Building durable financing for the energy transition and climate action in local communities
Discover how cities and counties are building resilient capital stacks to finance climate action. Learn from case studies showing how layered financing—combining equity, debt, green banks and communit...
impactalpha.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Resilient capital stacks: "the art and science of layering multiple forms of capital — equity, debt, grants, guarantees and even community partnerships — so that a project can weather risks & remain viable under stress," writes Nick Gower of @hipinvestor.bsky.social.
impactalpha.com/from-funding...
impactalpha.com/from-funding...
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What if #VentureCapital was built for the 99%?
Sydney Thomas of #SymphonicCapital joins Live with Living Cities Ep. 9 to share how her team is investing in Fintech and Healthtech companies like Canopie, Scout, and Lōvu Health to connect profit with purpose.
#LivingCities #ImpactInvesting
Sydney Thomas of #SymphonicCapital joins Live with Living Cities Ep. 9 to share how her team is investing in Fintech and Healthtech companies like Canopie, Scout, and Lōvu Health to connect profit with purpose.
#LivingCities #ImpactInvesting
Episode 9: Capital with a Conscience: Sydney Thomas on Rethinking Venture for the 99%
livingcities.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
What if #VentureCapital was built for the 99%?
Sydney Thomas of #SymphonicCapital joins Live with Living Cities Ep. 9 to share how her team is investing in Fintech and Healthtech companies like Canopie, Scout, and Lōvu Health to connect profit with purpose.
#LivingCities #ImpactInvesting
Sydney Thomas of #SymphonicCapital joins Live with Living Cities Ep. 9 to share how her team is investing in Fintech and Healthtech companies like Canopie, Scout, and Lōvu Health to connect profit with purpose.
#LivingCities #ImpactInvesting
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As AI agents evolve, one question keeps surfacing: Are we re-engineering our processes to make agents work better or to make humans work better?
Maybe, ultimately, those are the same thing.
At #ConnectedStack, @levie.bsky.social (CEO, Box) explored this with @puneetagarwal.bsky.social (True)
Maybe, ultimately, those are the same thing.
At #ConnectedStack, @levie.bsky.social (CEO, Box) explored this with @puneetagarwal.bsky.social (True)
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
As AI agents evolve, one question keeps surfacing: Are we re-engineering our processes to make agents work better or to make humans work better?
Maybe, ultimately, those are the same thing.
At #ConnectedStack, @levie.bsky.social (CEO, Box) explored this with @puneetagarwal.bsky.social (True)
Maybe, ultimately, those are the same thing.
At #ConnectedStack, @levie.bsky.social (CEO, Box) explored this with @puneetagarwal.bsky.social (True)
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Most businesses don't know who their real customers are.
Here's how to enhance what you know - and turn insight into intelligent growth.
#MarketingStrategy #BusinessGrowth #Customerlnsights #Entrepreneurship #datadrivenmarketing
Here's how to enhance what you know - and turn insight into intelligent growth.
#MarketingStrategy #BusinessGrowth #Customerlnsights #Entrepreneurship #datadrivenmarketing
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Most businesses don't know who their real customers are.
Here's how to enhance what you know - and turn insight into intelligent growth.
#MarketingStrategy #BusinessGrowth #Customerlnsights #Entrepreneurship #datadrivenmarketing
Here's how to enhance what you know - and turn insight into intelligent growth.
#MarketingStrategy #BusinessGrowth #Customerlnsights #Entrepreneurship #datadrivenmarketing
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Kaltura acquires eSelf, founded by creator of Snap’s AI, in $27M deal
Kaltura acquires eSelf, founded by creator of Snap’s AI, in $27M deal | TechCrunch
Kaltura acquires AI avatar startup eSelf to integrate generative AI into enterprise video and learning tools.
techcrunch.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Kaltura acquires eSelf, founded by creator of Snap’s AI, in $27M deal
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VC Jennifer Neundorfer explains how founders can stand out in a crowded AI market
VC Jennifer Neundorfer explains how founders can stand out in a crowded AI market | TechCrunch
January Ventures co-founder Jennifer Neundorfer discussed this AI-driven funding market on the Equity podcast during TechCrunch Disrupt.
techcrunch.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
VC Jennifer Neundorfer explains how founders can stand out in a crowded AI market
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🍔 Tycoon Flats is a San Antonio rite of passage and its specialty bites live up to the hype.
The burger joint serves up perfectly cooked classics that are never dry, plus specialties like MySA’s Zachary-Taylor Wright’s favorite, the Bacon Balsamic Blue.
🔗 Let's dig into it: bit.ly/3LtdRPN
The burger joint serves up perfectly cooked classics that are never dry, plus specialties like MySA’s Zachary-Taylor Wright’s favorite, the Bacon Balsamic Blue.
🔗 Let's dig into it: bit.ly/3LtdRPN
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🍔 Tycoon Flats is a San Antonio rite of passage and its specialty bites live up to the hype.
The burger joint serves up perfectly cooked classics that are never dry, plus specialties like MySA’s Zachary-Taylor Wright’s favorite, the Bacon Balsamic Blue.
🔗 Let's dig into it: bit.ly/3LtdRPN
The burger joint serves up perfectly cooked classics that are never dry, plus specialties like MySA’s Zachary-Taylor Wright’s favorite, the Bacon Balsamic Blue.
🔗 Let's dig into it: bit.ly/3LtdRPN
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15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
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Funding for European AI-native companies has nearly doubled to €8.9bn this year.
Can Europe build AI champions?
sifted.eu
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Funding for European AI-native companies has nearly doubled to €8.9bn this year.