TECH

A 25-year-old police drone founder just raised $75M led by Index
- By Neclink.com
- . April 9, 2025
If you ever call 911 from an area that’s hard to get to, you might hear the buzz of a drone well before a police

Google is allegedly paying some AI staff to do nothing for a year rather than join rivals
- By Neclink.com
- . April 8, 2025
Retaining top AI talent is tough amid cutthroat competition between Google, OpenAI, and other heavyweights. Google’s AI division, DeepMind, has resorted to using “aggressive” noncompete

Meta’s benchmarks for its new AI models are a bit misleading
- By Neclink.com
- . April 7, 2025
One of the new flagship AI models Meta released on Saturday, Maverick, ranks second on LM Arena, a test that has human raters compare the

DOGE reportedly planning a hackathon to build ‘mega API’ for IRS data
- By Neclink.com
- . April 6, 2025
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a “mega API” that will provide

ChatGPT adoption skyrockets in India, but monetization may be trailing
- By Neclink.com
- . April 5, 2025
For years, U.S.-based tech companies have tapped into India’s vast and increasing internet user base for growth. OpenAI is no exception. But while the AI

Amazon’s new AI agent will shop third-party sites for you
- By Neclink.com
- . April 4, 2025
Amazon is starting to test a new AI shopping agent, a feature it calls “Buy for Me,” with a subset users, the company announced in

Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026
- By Neclink.com
- . April 3, 2025
Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million in a Series A round as it

Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O’Reilly books
- By Neclink.com
- . April 2, 2025
OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization

Construct Capital raises $300M fund for defense and manufacturing tech
- By Neclink.com
- . April 1, 2025
Construct Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups applying technology to sectors like manufacturing, transportation, and defense, has closed its third fund

“This isn’t ‘The Matrix'”
- By Neclink.com
- . March 31, 2025
Last weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, found himself at the center of a digital fiasco when he was unexpectedly added to a Signal