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AI construction startup Versatile raises a $20M Series A

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San Francisco-based construction startup Versatile is announcing today that it has raised a $20 million Series A. The URBAN-X accelerator alum has developed a piece of hardware designed to be mounted to a crane. From that vantage point, it’s capable of capturing and analyzing data across the construction site.

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Investors discuss how labor shortage is shaking up the construction tech stack

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Construction as an industry has evolved with civilization through the ages. Construction’s digital transformation journey is only just beginning, and the sector offers a ton of space for innovation. To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space.

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SkyMul’s drones secure rebar on the fly to speed up construction

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There are many jobs in the construction industry that fall under the “dull, dirty, and dangerous” category said to be ripe for automation — but only a few can actually be taken on with today’s technology. Drone-focused construction startup TraceAir raises $3.5M. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

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Nearly a third (31%) of respondents said they are building internal private clouds using hybrid cloud management solutions such as software-defined storage and API-consistent hardware to make the private cloud more like public cloud, Forrester adds. Artificial Intelligence, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud

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Chef Robotics raises $7.7M to help automate kitchens

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The list of investors is pretty long on this one (with seed and pre-seed rolled up into one), including Kleiner Perkins, Promus Ventures, Construct, Bloomberg Beta, BOLD Capital Partners, Red and Blue Ventures, Gaingels, Schox VC, Stewart Alsop and Tau Ventures, among others. DoorDash acquires salad-making robotics startup, Chowbotics.

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How generative AI is accelerating silicon diversity

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As an IT leader, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time obsessing over the microprocessors powering your corporate computing hardware. NPUs, which can be included standalone in servers or embedded or CPUs or GPUs, use specialized hardware optimized for operations executed in neural networks – those brainy computer vision constructs.

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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements

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With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has already been very successful in certain areas. Artificial Intelligence