AI-powered warehouse automation received a significant boost as Gather AI, a startup specializing in drone and camera-based warehouse solutions, secured $40 million in Series B funding. The company's technology utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze warehouse operations, identify inventory problems, and optimize workflows, according to TechCrunch.
The funding will enable Gather AI to expand its platform, which uses AI to scan for specific data points, such as barcodes and expiration dates, to improve warehouse management. This technology aims to revolutionize logistics and supply chain efficiency.
Meanwhile, the performance of AI is increasingly reliant on efficient data delivery. According to VentureBeat, many enterprises investing heavily in GPU infrastructure for AI workloads are finding that their expensive compute resources are often underutilized. The bottleneck isn't the hardware itself, but rather the data delivery layer between storage and compute, which often starves GPUs of the necessary information. "While people are focusing their attention, justifiably so, on GPUs, because they're very significant investments, those are rarely the limiting factor," said Mark Menger, solutions architect at F5. "They're capable of more work. They're waiting on data."
In other tech news, The Knot Worldwide, a wedding platform, appointed Michael Pickrum as its new CFO. Pickrum, an engineer by training, brings a strategic lens to the role, especially as technology drives rapid change within the company, according to Fortune. He believes that financial models are tools for structured conversations, not ends in themselves, and that collaboration is key to their usefulness.
Elsewhere in the tech world, a Reddit clone called Moltbook, designed as a social network for AI agents, gained significant attention. Launched on January 28, Moltbook allowed AI agents to interact and share information. However, MIT Technology Review questioned whether Moltbook was a glimpse into the future or something else entirely.
Finally, in a different field of scientific discovery, data collected by the Juno orbiter led to a recalculation of Jupiter's measurements. According to Nature News, the planet's average radius is now estimated to be 69,886 kilometers, making it slightly smaller and flatter than previously thought.
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