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Former Alphabet X spinout Mineral sells technology to John Deere

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Earlier this year, reports surfaced that Alphabet had closed the book on its ag-tech robotics spinout, Mineral. The news arrived amid larger money crunches at Google’s parent. Citing a crowded market and profit concerns, Mineral ceased operation and pivoted to technology licensing. This month, Mineral CEO Elliott Grant reprinted the leaked memo, while confirming that […]

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Alphabet X’s latest spinout brings computer vision and AI to salmon farms

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Over the course of Alphabet X’s existence, the self-proclaimed “moonshot factory” has been notable for the variety in both its technological solutions and the problems it’s attempting to solve. The combination research facility/accelerator has produced balloons for rural internet and energy-producing kites. Tidal, which quietly spun out of the department in mid-July, has its own

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Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled

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A month after launching its first product, Humane’s co-founders have reportedly put their well-funded startup on the market. While even the firm’s biggest cheerleaders didn’t expect the Ai Pin to change the world in such a short timeframe, few of its many detractors expected things to go so sideways, so quickly. Humane’s biggest competitor, the

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