To help cultivated meat companies scale up, Ark Biotech has built a new kind of bioreactor, and its most valuable components are data — and air.The challenge: Lab-grown, cultivated, cultured, or clean — whatever you call it, meat grown from cells, not animals, has the potential to replace the slaughter of livestock and reduce climate emissions, without anyone giving up tasty chicken or steak....

One way to find out where AI is heading: follow the money. Here’s our analysis of the AI application providers attracting the most attention and funding.What are the hottest use cases for AI? And which business activities is it most likely to disrupt?One way to gauge that is to look at which application providers entered the year with the most momentum. These are companies offering solutions f...

The group’s new autonomous ride-hailing service has a 43-inch widescreen, a 17-speaker audio system, and five-position reclining seats. But will it beat Tesla’s rival coming in August?The Rimac Group describes Verne, its new autonomous ride-hailing service, as its “next impossible thing.” First, founder Mate Rimac established his eponymous electric hypercar company in Croatia, a country wit...

Archer’s planned air mobility network is anticipated to provide unprecedented connectivity to communities around the region allowing people to replace one-to-two-hour drives to cities around the bay with flights that take ~10-20 minutesA leader in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, today announced plans for an air mobility network that will connect five strategic locations...

A new Microsoft Patent describes the addition of a Kickstand to their Reinvented Surface Duo Foldable Smartphone.Back in 2020, Microsoft took a chance at getting well ahead of Apple with a foldable smartphone branded the Surface Duo. It was a disastrous product. As the Android world debuted foldable phones with a single contiguous display that folded, the Surface Duo introduced a device with tw...

AI and automation could lower administrative and medical costs and increase revenue. But payers have yet to mobilize to transform their organizations to capture this opportunity.Payers currently face economic pressures that are likely to last a few years. Utilization of medical services has been higher than expected, providers are passing along higher costs through rate negotiations, and Medica...

OpenAI is moving to strengthen its technology stack. The company today announced it has acquired Rockset, a vendor known for providing a real-time analytics database to power intelligent enterprise applications.While the terms of the deal remain undisclosed, OpenAI has confirmed that it will integrate Rockset’s “word-class indexing and querying” capabilities to strengthen its retrieval infra...

Apollo the humanoid robot costs about as much as a car, and it could be your future coworker.Apptronik, a NASA-backed robotics company, has unveiled Apollo, a humanoid robot that could revolutionize the workforce — because there’s virtually no limit to the number of jobs it can do.“The focus for Apptronik is to build one robot that can do thousands of different things,” Jeff Cardenas, the c...

Shares of American sportswear giant Nike slid more than 15 percent on Friday morning, after the company reported disappointing earnings and an even more disappointing outlook for the near future. The world’s largest maker of performance and lifestyle-oriented athletic footwear and apparel reported revenue of $51.4 billion for the fiscal year ended May 31, which is basically unchanged from $51....