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Cellulosic biogasoline company Cool Planet completes second close of D Round, raises another $19.4M; $60M total

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This work will be supported by leading international engineering firm, URS Corporation, as the company recently announced. Cool Planet will use a portion of the equity raise to finalize engineering design for the company’s first commercial facility.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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Meanwhile, Singapore is funding a US $52 million open-source development effort for Southeast Asia, and the UAE continues to bankroll some of the largest available open generative AI models. Yet the AI ecosystem is more than a handful of corporate labs. And after a confrontation with its member state governments in December, the E.U.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE. 5 In another effort, UAE teams used drones to plant 6.25 million trees in only two days. hyperautomation.

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