AI & RoboticsNews

6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind

November 11, 2025
Although LLM-powered AI agents are a fairly new phenomenon, one of the areas where they’ve been most popular so far is in sales. 1mind, a startup co-founded by Amanda Kahlow, has been quietly shipping its sales agent, named Mindy, for about a year. On Monday, the startup announced a $30 million Series A round led by Battery Ventures. This brings 1mind’s total raise to $40 million, the…
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NewsPhotography

This viral trend for passport photos says something profound about Gen Z

November 11, 2025
Honestly? When I first saw that a Chinatown passport photo had gone viral with over a million views, I laughed. A passport photo. The same bureaucratic mugshot we’ve all learned to dread. That went viral because it looked good? But then I looked at it properly. And I got it. Bolton Brown‘s portrait from Eliz Digital isn’t extraordinary because it’s fancy. There’s no…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

E-quipment highlight: the highest-rated lawnmowers on Amazon are ELECTRIC

November 11, 2025
Despite decades of market dominance, it seems like the days of loud, finicky gas-powered lawnmowers may finally be behind us — and I say that because five of the highest-rated mowers on Amazon won’t burn a drop of gas. While the federal push for EVs may have stalled under the current Trump Administration, state and local governments continue to tightening restrictions on noise and…
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DefenseNews

New German sub-hunting plane to operate out of Norway, Iceland

November 11, 2025
BERLIN — The first of eight P-8A Poseidon submarine-hunting aircraft ordered for the German Navy arrived in Berlin last week. The aircraft will serve to ensure no Russian submarines are able to enter the open Atlantic undetected, German officials said. Although based at…
DefenseNews

Zelenskyy seeks US Patriot systems against Russia’s power grid attacks

November 11, 2025
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday he wants to order 25 Patriot air defense systems from the United States, as Ukraine desperately tries to fend off relentless Russian aerial attacks that have brought rolling blackouts across Ukraine on the brink of winter. Zelenskyy acknowledged that the Patriot systems are expensive and that such a large batch could take years to…
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