Startups
Founded in London in 2018 by James Dacombe (who left school at 16) and co-founded by Christina Franzeskides, CoMind is taking on one of healthcare’s toughest frontiers: monitoring the brain at the bedside without drilling into the skull. Financial Times 🧪 What They’re Building CoMind’s flagship platform, called
Startups
Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous-vehicle company, announced plans to launch driverless taxi services in London by 2026, marking its first major European deployment and a key step in the UK’s automated-mobility push. What’s going on Waymo’s expansion follows the UK government’s Automated Vehicles Act, which gives a
Biotech
Scientists can now print mini-tissues, partial organs, and vascular networks. But printing a fully functional, transplant-ready human organ? Still at least 20–30 years away.
Guide
AI is everywhere — in your phone, in your job, and probably in your fridge soon. But with new buzzwords dropping every week, it can feel like everyone else knows what “transformers” and “agents” mean except you.
AI
Artificial intelligence is no longer hiding in labs or corporate dashboards. It’s now making dinner, giving dating advice, and yes, even talking to dogs. Here are some of the strangest, real, and surprisingly effective ways people are using AI today — with real companies behind them. 🐶 1. Talking to Pets
Guide
AI is the hottest thing since Wi-Fi — but let’s be real, most people nod through buzzwords like “transformers” and “vector embeddings” while secretly Googling them later. So here’s your cheat sheet: five AI fundamentals every tech-curious human should actually understand, no PhD required.
AI
Say goodbye (maybe) to manual ad-campaign set-ups — this week AdsGency, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023, secured $12 million in seed funding (bringing its total funding to ~$15 million) to build what it calls an agentic AI platform that automates advertising across platforms like Google, TikTok, Reddit and Pinterest.
News
The results are astounding and a major advance, say surgeons involved in international research using the pioneering technology.
AI
The startup world lives for big rounds but every once in a while you get one that feels like a signal: Lila Sciences, founded just two years ago, has raised an additional $115 million in an extension of its Series A round, pushing its valuation past $1.3 billion. That’
News
This year, LA Tech Week didn’t just bring founders and VCs—it brought yoga mats, cold plunges, and “Puppies & Pilates”.
News
The iPhone 17 series is off to a notably strong start, especially in the U.S. and China, outpacing its predecessor in multiple metrics.