Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M+ users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M+ users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M  —  Knowunity is a global AI learning companion that combines personalised AI and student-created content to make studying easier, more […]

June 15, 763 BCE: Assyrians record a solar eclipse

On June 15, 763 BCE, a near-total solar eclipse occurred over northern Assyria and was recorded by observers in Nineveh, the capital city. This event is preserved in the Eponym Canon, a list of historical events made by the Assyrians on clay tablets, following a specialized calendar system. The text […]

New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul’s signature (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul’s signature  —  New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster […]