Sheryl Sandberg has led a $10 million investment in Self Inspection, a San Diego-based startup that is also backed by former Tesla CEO Jon McNeill’s DVx Ventures. The startup, founded in 2021, has spent the last few years trying to disrupt the vehicle inspection process by making it possible to properly assess damage to a
You may have heard that OpenAI launched its first piece of hardware this week: a $230 mini keyboard. You may not have heard that, along with this “command center for agency work,” OpenAI also launched a ChatGPT basketball. “This basketball comes from the Pause. Play. Prompt. campaign, a physical reminder that creativity doesn’t just live
TikTok is taking control as it looks to grow its e-commerce business. The company is rolling out a new managed services program in the US that will give it much more control over the performance of some of its e-commerce sellers, according to documentation seen by Business Insider. The company is currently seeking participants for
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
A former Formula One engineer has left the world’s fastest racing cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories. Now, his Munich-based startup microagi has raised $55 million in the largest seed round secured by a German startup. Hummingbird led the round, with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Wednesday that the driver of a Tesla that crashed into a house in June had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, defeating the company’s fully autonomous (supervised) driving software. Data recovered from the Tesla showed the vehicle was traveling more than 70 miles per hour when it crashed