🧑🔬 Funding the "continuum of software and science": Swiss VC firm Redalpine has closed an oversubscribed $200 million fund to back European early-stage companies with a focus on deep tech. That's one trend we're starting to see more of on the continent. Read More
🔍 Watermarking AI-generated content: This is apparently a California bill that OpenAI can get behind. Sam Altman's company, as well as Adobe and Microsoft, are supporting a law that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content. Read More
💻 Meanwhile, Musk supports the AI bill Altman hates: Elon Musk has come out in support of the contentious California SB 1047 bill that would require makers of very large AI models to create and document safeguards to prevent those models from causing serious harm. It's particularly surprising, since Musk's own AI model, Grok, appears to have no safeguards around deepfakes. Read More
☁️ Optimizing cloud spend: NOps believes it can help companies optimize their cloud products and services expenses, especially if they're using AWS. That approach appears to be working: The startup just closed a $30 million Series A. Read More
🤘 3D printing goes metal: 3D metal printing has been difficult to nail down for years, but Markforged says it's finally ready to offer those capabilities with its FX10 machine. The industrial additive manufacturing machine can print with metal filaments, and even do stainless steel. Will we soon be able to download a car? Read More
