When people think about the water they use, they tend to think about drinking water out of the tap or maybe their daily shower. But about 70% of […]
Albedo takes Earth observation up close and personal from very low Earth orbit
Satellite imagery startup Albedo is preparing for its up close and personal debut. Albedo’s first satellite will take to orbit next spring as the company looks to turn […]
Danti’s natural language search engine for Earth data soars with $5M in new funding
Danti, an artificial intelligence company building a superpower search engine for Earth data, has brought on prominent defensive tech investor Shield Capital as it looks to scale its […]
As AI accelerates, Europe’s flagship privacy principles are under attack, warns EDPS
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has warned key planks of the bloc’s data protection and privacy regime are under attack from industry lobbyists and could face a […]
This Week in AI: Midjourney bets it can beat the copyright police
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in […]
New geospatial data startup streamlines satellite imagery visualization
These days we have a ton of geospatial data coming off the increasing numbers of satellites circling in our atmosphere, but it takes some serious processing power and […]
Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future
As crucial as the ocean is to countless industries, we lack the kind of systematic knowledge of it that we have of the surface. Syrenna has built a […]
How Neara uses AI to protect utilities from extreme weather
Over the past few decades, extreme weather events have not only become more severe, but are also occurring more frequently. Neara is focused on enabling utility companies and […]
Jua raises $16M to build a foundational AI model for the natural world, starting with the weather
Large AI models — the big troves of language, vision and audio data that power generative artificial intelligence services — are shaping up to be as significant in […]
Cerulean empowers ocean pollution watchdogs with orbital observation
The vastness of the ocean allows polluters to evade detection in all but the most egregious violations. SkyTruth aims to change that with Cerulean, an orbital monitoring platform […]