Live shopping app Whatnot announced Wednesday that it has acquired Shaped, a machine learning company that specializes in real-time search and recommendation systems. The deal aims to strengthen Whatnot’s discovery and personalization capabilities as the platform continues to expand across new product categories and millions of shoppers. According to the company, the acquisition helps Whatnot
AI music generator Suno was hacked, according to a report from 404 Media. The hacker told the publication that they used a supply chain attack in November to access an employee’s credentials, allowing them to access source code showing how Suno allegedly scraped decades of audio from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, archive music libraries and
Sportswear company Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round raised by Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, whose properties make it too good to throw away but difficult to reuse. Syntetica promises to recycle two types of nylon, Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6, that cannot be
Applied Computing, a London-based startup that is building a basic AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures. Founded in 2023, the startup targets oil, gas, refining and petrochemical systems, where a single facility can have thousands
Amid rising consumer electronics prices and sluggish demand for new purchases, Android phone maker OnePlus plans to close its operations in the United States and Europe this week, according to a Bloomberg report. The report cited a source as saying that OnePlus closing its stores in the US and Europe is part of a corporate
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched its first in-house AI model Wednesday morning, called Inkling. And unlike flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, it is open weight, meaning third-party developers and companies can download and modify it directly. Inkling is a mixed expert system with 975
