AI & RoboticsNews

Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices

October 16, 2025
Liberate, an AI startup automating insurance operations, has raised $50 million in a round led by Battery Ventures as it looks to scale its agentic deployments across carriers and agencies globally. The all-equity round values the three-year-old startup at $300 million post-money, with participation from new investor Canapi Ventures and returning backers Redpoint Ventures, Eclipse, and Commerce…
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This photographer spent years photographing the border crisis. After 35,000 photographs, he won this prestigious award – in a contest that he didn’t even enter

October 16, 2025
When photographer Alejandro Cegarra set out for the US-Mexico border in 2018, he wanted to capture the struggles of migrants in a way that highlighted universally human emotions. After nearly seven years and 35,000 photographs, Cegarra’s The Two Walls series has earned the photographer a major global title – in a photography competition that he didn’t even enter. Cegarra (@alecegarra) was…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures

October 16, 2025
Tesla is in hot water in South Korea as nearly 4,500 of its electric vehicles have reported serious battery issues, putting their eligibility for government subsidies at risk. We’re receiving some troubling reports from South Korea today, as the Korea JoongAng Daily is reporting that a significant number of Tesla vehicles are experiencing battery failures. The issue centers around a “BMS_a079…
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DefenseNews

No drones for Army squads, teams, 25th Infantry Division leader says

October 16, 2025
Amid a push to put more small drones in the hands of soldiers across the force, the U.S. Army is learning that there’s a ceiling to the number of unmanned systems that units can handle. Col. Dave Lamborn, commander of 2nd Mobile Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, out of Hawaii, told a panel during the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting in Washington that in division testing, the…
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