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French fintech Pennylane raises €175M
Paris-based fintech Pennylane has just pulled off one of Europe’s most noteworthy funding rounds of the year, announcing €175 million in new capital to accelerate its push into artificial...
The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT...
TikTok seals deal forming new joint American venture with major investors
TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years...
Why you should treat your brand as an operating system
For much of the modern corporate era, brand has been treated as surface area. A story told outward. A set of signals designed to persuade, attract, and differentiate. When...
There’s only one Woz, but we can all learn from him
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. On January 16, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak—known to all as Woz—received the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award, an...
Three sales secrets from the stage that translate into everyday leadership
I like to say that my job as a charity auctioneer is the ultimate sales role. I stand onstage night after night encouraging people to give money, playing off...
Can AI replace the humanity of Classical Music?
In October 2021, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn interpreted the first movement of Beethoven’s 10th unfinished symphony, which was completed with the use of artificial intelligence. A team of computer...
This tech could keep EVs from stressing the grid—and save everyone money
If you’re a typical American, you get home from work and start flipping switches and turning knobs—doing laundry, cooking dinner, watching TV. With so many other folks doing the...
The ‘big bazooka’: How Europe could hit the U.S. tech industry if the Greenland trade war blows up
While it seems that some agreement has been reached to placate Donald Trump’s obsession with taking over Greenland, details are still being revealed. So the possibility that the nascent...
Measles is surging in the US. Wastewater tracking could help.
After all, wastewater contains saliva, urine, feces, shed skin, and more. You could consider it a rich biological sample. Wastewater analysis helped scientists understand how covid was spreading during...
