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Stability AI today launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, which the Britishstartupcalls its most advanced text-to-image open model yet. It also overcomes common artefacts in hands and faces, Stability said. 40% off TNW Conference! Stability described the text generation accuracy as unprecedented. The company attributes these improvements to theDiffusion Transformer architecture. Another core attraction is the models size. Christian Laforte, Stabilitys co-CEO,told TNW that the startup plans to continuously improve the model....

PINEHURST BABY!!!! It doesn’t get much better than this. US Open golf at the American capital of golf. The US Open typically serves as golf’s greatest test. Across 3 US Opens at Pinehurst No. Plus the course and the weather should lead to a baked out and absurdly challenging test of golf. Last year’s leaderboard and recent winners, along with the 2014 leaderboard from Pinehurst. 2023 Leaderboard 2014 Leaderboard at Pinehurst No....

I really should have been blogging this Young Thug trial from the jump. They seem to be getting crazier and crazier. And I’m just sitting here watching them thinking to myself, “Damn.. this shit seems interesting… I really wish I would have been paying attention to this the whole time.” Then I Google something like, “Young Thug trial explained in less than 5 minutes”. I skim a few articles, but I don’t actually learn anything....

A combined 28-54 since April 27th is good for 55-107 over a full 162 and completely disgusting. Ill do my best to explain how it got to be so shitty. The White Sox are more pathetic to a reasonable sports fan yet easier to explain. Tony La Russa is a timely starting point but Sox fans would rather point to Jerry first. Jerrys a selfish asshole. He sabotaged Rick Hahn by handcuffing payroll when it was time to spend big....

It will take place on Day 2 of the event on the TNW Talks stage between 11:00 and 11:20. 40% off TNW Conference! The journey started when Berglund was looking for a hormone-free contraceptive method for herself. She realised that there was an unmet need for such a product worldwide. Natural Cycles is the only digital method of contraception cleared by both US and European health regulators. The app helps women track their fertility by measuring changes in body temperature during the menstrual cycle....

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Just last month,the Guardiandescribed the housing crisis in Amsterdam as next level. And things are not much better acrossEuropeas a whole. Prices and rents are soaring across the continent, and the lack of availability is staggering. (Naturally, this does not include the price for the plot of land on which to build.) Thestartuphas committed to only building carbon-neutral homes. Suppliers include architects such as Italian Llabb, Dutch firms Architect2Go and Studio Brandvries, and ModulHus from Sweden....

Frances (and Europes) GenAI darling Mistral has reportedly almost tripled its valuation, reaching 5.8bn. An additional 132mn in debt financing brings the total funding to 600mn. The startups potential attracted strong investor interest from the outset. Last year, Mistralsecured 105mnin Europes reportedly largest ever seed funding round. An additional 385mn roundfollowedin late 2023, bringing the companys valuation to about 2bn. 40% off TNW Conference! It has also released multiple LLMs and struck partnerships with tech giants such asMicrosoftandAmazon....

Munichs Vsquared Ventures today announced the closing of a new 214mn fund for early-stage investment in deep tech startups. It is reportedly the largest ever early-stage fund for the sector inEurope. It will also reserve some funds for follow-oninvestments. The fund targets six general growth themes. 40% off TNW Conference! One of the themes of this years TNW Conference is Venture: Show Me The Money. Story byLinnea Ahlgren Linnea is the senior editor at TNW, having joined in April 2023....

Check out the full event schedulehere. Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga has reason to celebrate. His company recently becamethe firstpre-loved clothing platform to make a profit after a monumental 61% surge in sales. Its now firmly established as Europes largest online marketplace for second-hand fashion. The results represent a remarkable turnaround. When Plantenga joined Vinted in 2016, the company was on the verge of collapse. The trouble emerged despite a promising start based on a common problem....

There are a lot of things to enjoy about the Celtics current playoff run. At the moment, things are good. At first it definitely triggered me, as tension was high heading into the playoffs given everything that stake. There’s something unique about this team that just does something to these people. I’m not really sure what it is, but at this point there’s no denying it. See for yourself This is it....

Tommy Fleetwood joins the show and we preview the U.S. Open live from Pinehurst. What kind of course can we expect? Difficult or easy for a major? Was moving Paynes statue too much? Is Scottie a lock? Do we like Tigers chances?

The winning formulais what thestartupcalls MagNex. For Materials Nexus, magnets are just the beginning. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Bean founded Materials Nexus in 2020. However, AI allows researchers to trial millions of possible material combinations virtually removing much of the legwork. MagNex took just three months to design, synthesise, and test. Most of them rely on rare-earth metals.European demand for these metals is expected torise five-fold by 2030....