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CompScience, an AI-driven InsurTech focused on workplace safety, has secured $27.6m in a Series B funding round led by Sands Capital.The investment will accelerate product innovation, expand operations, and enhance risk prevention technology to help organisations reduce workplace injuries and fatalities.Other investors participating in the round include Four More Capital, Working Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, which have previously backed high-profile companies such as Tesla, Coalition, SpaceX, and Anduril.CompScience leverages visual AI technology to detect workplace hazards and predict incidents before they result in claims. By integrating with existing camera systems, the platform eliminates the need for costly additional equipment…

Lantern Finance, a financial services and technology company, has secured over $1m in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round.The investment round saw participation from institutional and angel investors, including Orange DAO, Supermoon Ventures, and Andover Ventures. The funding will support the development of Lantern’s digital asset-backed lending platform.Lantern Finance enables users to borrow against their digital assets while receiving funds directly into their bank accounts. The platform provides an alternative to selling digital assets, helping investors access liquidity without triggering taxable events, while maintaining exposure to potential long-term gains.With the newly raised capital, Lantern Finance plans to scale its platform, expand…

It was inevitable that this year at MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a major effort at building a smartphone with a top AI company. And here it is: Deutsche Telekom (DT), said that it is building an “AI Phone,” a low-cost handset created in close collaboration with Perplexity, along with Picsart and others, plus a new AI assistant app it’s calling “Magenta AI.” DT will unveil the device in the second half of this year, and it will start selling it in 2026 for a price tag of less than $1,000. Initially, it will be aimed…

AI startup Stability AI has teamed up with chipmaker Arm to bring Stability’s Stable Audio Open, an AI model that can generate audio including sound effects, to mobile devices running Arm chips. While a number of AI-powered apps can generate audio, like Suno and Udio, most rely on cloud processing, meaning that they can’t be used offline. Moreover, some audio generation models were trained on copyrighted content — posing an IP risk. Stability claims Stable Audio Open’s training set is made up entirely of royalty-free audio and songs. Stable Audio Open running on Arm chips, which will be demoed at…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It also could harm your health.Darker mornings and more evening light together knock your body clock out of whack — which means daylight saving time can usher in sleep trouble for weeks or longer. Studies have even found an uptick in heart attacks and strokes right after the March time change.There are ways to ease the adjustment, including getting more sunshine to help reset your circadian rhythm for healthful…

Chloe Dalton was taking a winter walk near her farmhouse when she encountered it: a tiny baby hare — known as a leveret — lying huddled and alone in the middle of a narrow country lane.A London political adviser who was living in the English countryside during the pandemic, Dalton knew next to nothing about hares. Yet when she found that the leveret hadn’t moved for hours, she decided to take it home and try to save it — despite her fears that by interfering she might hurt its ability to return to the wild.What follows, as recounted in the…

Socure has introduced one of their first AI-powered assistants for Global Watchlist Screening and Monitoring.This pioneering solution is set to redefine how financial institutions, FinTech companies, and global businesses manage compliance challenges associated with sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEP), and adverse media screenings.The catalyst behind this innovation stems from the ongoing inefficiencies plaguing traditional watchlist screening processes, such as high rates of false positives, burdensome manual reviews, and complex regulatory demands. These challenges have intensified with escalating penalties for non-compliance, which have surpassed $8bn globally in recent years.Socure’s core capabilities are centred around harnessing the power of AI to enhance…

Jolla, the erstwhile mobile maker turned privacy-centric AI business — via sister startup, Venho.ai — has taken the wraps off an AI assistant it says is a “fully private” alternative to data-mining cloud giants crawling all over your personal information.   The AI assistant is designed to integrate with apps like email, calendar, and social media accounts to provide the user with a conversational power tool that can surface information but also perform actions on the user’s behalf. This means stuff like summarizing emails and documents, booking meetings, filtering social media feeds and performing web look-ups. But they say the…

Following Google’s Willow in December 2024, we now have two additional new quantum chips announced in the final week of February 2025: Microsoft’s Majorana 1, and now Amazon’s Ocelot.  “AWS researchers,” claims Amazon, “have, for the first time, combined cat qubit technology and additional quantum error correction components onto a microchip that can be manufactured in a scalable fashion using processes borrowed from the microelectronics industry.” Three new quantum chips from three separate quantum manufacturers in the space of three short months is a dramatic development. They all seek to solve the fundamental problem in quantum computing: the fragility of…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has declared a “coalition of the willing” would come together to draw up a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine and present it to United States President Donald Trump for his support, days after a public spat between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House signalled a rupture in Washington’s support for Kyiv. By contrast, Zelenskyy received assurances of support on Sunday from his European allies at a security summit in London hurriedly arranged by Starmer, who greeted the Ukrainian leader with a hug. On Friday, a meeting between Trump…