TREND REPORTS
Sylvester Stallone Among Investors In $7.5M Backing For Largo.ai Analytics Firm
[Investing]
2025/02/04 09:09
Largo.ai, the AI-driven analytics platform for the film, TV and advertising industries, has secured $7.5M in investment with Sylvester Stallone among the newest backers of the company as it closed its Series A financing round. Co-led by Los Angeles-based TI Capital and Switzerland and Los Angeles-based QBIT Capital, funding round participants for Largo.ai include Boston’s Atreides Management,...
(Infographic) 2025 Prediction Consensus
[Investing]
2025/02/04 09:08
As we look ahead to 2025, there is no shortage of expert forecasts and predictions for what will happen to the world’s economy, markets, geopolitics, and technology in 2025.In this now sixth year of our Prediction Consensus (part of our comprehensive 2025 Global Forecast Series presented by Inigo Insurance), we’ve summarized the most common predictions and forecasts by experts into a single v...
Google’s X Spins Out Heritable Agriculture, A Startup Using AI to Improve Crop Yield
[Business]
2025/02/04 09:07
Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown. As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight and wa...
Instant Coffee Paste in a Tube is Here - No Normal Coffee
[Product]
2025/02/04 09:06
Instant coffee in a tube has arrived, courtesy of a Zurich, Switzerland-based startup called No Normal Coffee.While toothpaste-like coffee dispensing may seem novel to much of the coffee-drinking world, the format itself is actually quite Swiss, dating back to the post World War II era. Shelf-stable tubed food pastes can still be found throughout grocery stores in Switzerland — from simple con...
How Leading Strategy Teams are Successfully Driving Generative AI Adoption
[Business]
2025/02/04 09:05
We surveyed 50 senior strategy leaders to understand their genAI implementation tactics — and why some teams are seeing better results than others.Generative AI is the leading tech priority for corporate strategy teams in the next year.But only 32% of strategy leaders report active genAI deployments at their organizations.To identify pain points and success stories for genAI adoption, we surve...
Bullet-like Futuristic Bus That Turns Into 'Showroom On Wheels' Unveiled
[Design]
2025/02/04 09:04
The custom bus features aircraft-inspired curves and sci-fi interiors, created by DC2 Mercury.At the 2025 Bharat Mobility Auto Expo, one of the standout attractions wasn’t a cutting-edge car or electric vehicle. Instead, it was a custom-designed bus, created as a mobile showroom for Goldmedal Electricals, a prominent homegrown Indian company. This unique vehicle combines a futuristic, spacecra...
ChatGPT’s Mobile Users are 85% Male, Report Says
[Consumer]
2025/02/04 09:03
The AI bubble hasn’t burst yet, at least when it comes to consumer spending on AI apps.Led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, overall spending on AI apps jumped to $1.42 billion in 2024, according to app analytics firm Appfigures. This marks a 274% increase from 2023 (the app launched in May of that year). Among tens of thousands of competitor apps — some of which license OpenAI’s own technology — ChatG...
(PDF) Earning Report - World’s Largest Luxury Group, LVMH 2024 Annual Results
[Investing]
2025/02/03 09:10
The world’s largest luxury company LVMH on Tuesday reported better-than-expected full-year sales, in the strongest sign yet of a potential turnaround in the high-end sector.LVMH is seen as a bellwether for the wider luxury industry, with product lines spanning fashion and leather goods, wines and spirits, jewelry and cosmetics.Shares in the French luxury goods giant are currently up around 18%...
(Video) Tesla Achieves Factory-to-Dock Self-Driving
[Tech]
2025/02/03 09:09
Tesla Says Its EVs Now Drive Themselves From The Factory To The Loading Areas. The company posted a video showing how a brand-new car drove a 1.2-mile route without anyone in the driver’s seat.Tesla claims its new EVs can now drive themselves on a 1.2-mile factory course.The freshly assembled EVs start their driverless journey from a charging station.Tesla isn’t a stranger to controversy. Tha...
