The U.P. is getting its first privately owned VC fund – Crain's Detroit

The port says it is making efforts to shift its business model. “We try to work together with the polluters, and slowly phase them out,” says Oscar van Veen, director of innovation at the Port of Rotterdam, speaking on a small boat in the harbour. He pauses, then corrects himself: “As fast as possible, of…

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Apple’s self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company’s chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. While the car processor was never finished, as Mark Gurman details…

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. A few years ago, I couldn’t differentiate between the Oura Ring 3 and the Ultrahuman Ring Air. Both smart rings both held a similar position in the wearables market — industry newbies with a novel design and insights you couldn’t get from smartwatches. Oura was the fan…

Federal technology leaders said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s acquisition reforms are accelerating technology modernization by pushing agencies toward centralized purchasing, streamlined procurement, and greater use of artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce acquisition timelines and improve mission outcomes. Speaking at MeriTalk’s Shift Happens event in Washington, D.C., officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),…

Ollama, the developer platform for open AI models, announced that it has raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator, Pace Capital, 49 Palms, GTMFund, and other investors and angel backers. The latest financing brings the company’s total funding to $88 million. Benchmark previously led…