46 Articles in 2023
Startup Funding Shifts Industries
Shifting Tides in Startup Funding: From Software to Life Sciences The landscape of startup funding is undergoing a significant…
Another Rushed AI Demo Error
Balancing Innovation and Caution: The Rush of AI to Market and the Future of Personal Technology With the advent of artificial intelligence…
Biden Issues AI Executive Order
Biden Issues Urgent AI Regulation Executive Order In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the line between…
Ampera Desk Bike Review
LifeSpan Launches New Power-Generating Desk Bike for Seated Exercise Our co-founder Archie Cowan who has been working remotely for Amazon…
Second Wave of 23andMe Data Leaks Sparks Renewed Concerns
Second Wave of 23andMe Data Leaks Sparks Renewed Concerns Just two weeks after an initial data leak, 23andMe, the popular genetic testing…
Artists Fight Back Against AI With New Data Poisoning Tool
Artists Fight Back Against AI With New Data Poisoning Tool A new data poisoning tool known as Nightshade is giving artists an avenue to…
Venture Capital Shifts to Life Sciences
Venture Capital Shift: From Software to Life Sciences The venture capital landscape is a constantly shifting terrain, sensitive to market…
How Investors Are Analyzing AI Startups
How Investors Differentiate Among AI-Driven Companies Just one year ago, AI seemed like a technology that was still trying to find its…
OpenAI Author Lawsuit Sets Tone for AI Copyright Law
Author Lawsuit Against OpenAI Sets The Tone for AI Copyright Law A class action lawsuit against OpenAI has gained attention as a group of…
Making Gen AI Sustainable
Gen AI Has a Sustainability Problem "GenAI," or generative artificial intelligence, has a sustainability problem. While businesses are using…
Dev Ops Days Detroit 2023 Preview
DevOps Days Detroit 2023 Preview A worldwide series of technical conferences focused on software development and IT infrastructure is…
X (Twitter) Adopts New Business Model
X, Formerly Twitter, Adopts New Subscription Model X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has announced plans (Bloomberg) to test three…
Funding Raise for Flexible Manufacturing
Machina Funding Raise for Advanced Manufacturing Flexibility Flexible advanced manufacturing is finally here. Traditionally, changing…
No More Big Funding Rounds for Startups?
No More Big Funding Rounds? Once upon a time, it was a rarity to see startups bring in $100 million or more in a round of funding. These…
Goodhood Auto Interview with CEO Prashant Salla
Turning Passion into Convenience: The Story of Goodhood & Prashant Salla In today's fast-paced world, convenience is king. The demands on…
a2tech360 Tech Week New Events for 2023
Ann Arbor's a2tech360 Tech Week New Events for 2023 Ann Arbor's popular tech week a2tech360 is back September 14-22 with favorite events…
University of Michigan Offers First of Its Kind AI Suite
University of Michigan Offers First-of-its-Kind AI Suite ANN ARBOR – As artificial intelligence services are growing exponentially in many…
Ohio X Update
Ohio X Update By Tim Busbey, Cronicle Staff Writer CINCINNATI, Ohio – Cincinnati-based tech startup Beltways recently won the inaugural…
Rivian R1T Tech Review
Rivian R1T Tech Review There cannot be an EV more tricked out with tech than the R1T. Feel free to disagree with us in the comments and let…
Pluie Changes the Diaper Changing Game
The latest and greatest startups to come out of the Midwest can often be found in Chicago, where Chicago Innovation has curated a fantastic…
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This is a guest post by Cronicle Press contributor Dean Burgess. For more information about Dean's work, visit Excitepreneur.net. Must-Have…
Plymouth Funding News
Plymouth Raises New $125M Fund for Startups Plymouth Growth Partners, a growth equity firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has just announced…
FDIC Seizes Republic in Third Bank Failure of 2023
Third Major Bank Failure of 2023 Republic Bank has been seized by the FDIC after the third major bank failure of 2023 in the U.S., following…
Proceptual Introduces HR Compliance Tool
HR Software for AI and Automation Compliance Chicago AI compliance startup Proceptual has just announced the launch of its tech-enabled…
P33 Announces New Board Members
P33 Hires Some Familiar Faces to New Board Chicago startup incubator and tech networking hub P33 has just announced new board members, some…
Gradient Valley Launches AI Tool for Education
Gradient Valley Launches First of Its Kind AI Mobile App To Teach Data Science Ann Arbor-based software company Gradient Valley has just…
Room 35 Will Mentor Contractors Incubator Style
Room35 Introduces Tech Incubator Model to Construction Room35 is a new business incubator in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that co-founders Joshua…
LAND Energy Launches an EV for Energy Independence
Today, we are excited to introduce LAND Energy, an electrification and mobility startup based in Cleveland that is focused on combining…
Mach9 Uses AI as a Surveying Tool To Strengthen the Grid
We've reported before about how AI is being used to fill in gaps in Flint, Michigan, pipe records to predict where pipes need to be replaced…
ChatGPT-4 Is Already Here: How Will You Use It?
ChatGPT-4 exam results compared to previous model. ChatGPT-4 is here, on the heels of ChatGPT-3. What is new with this new edition of…
Tech Startups Scramble After Silicon Valley Bank Collapse, Bank-to-Bank Bailout
The Silicon Valley Bank website has been taken over by "Silicon Valley Bridge Bank" to create a vehicle to serve existing SVB depositors via…
Bitwise raises $80 million to teach underserved to code
Bitwise Industries is a Fresno-based tech startup on a mission: teach underserved populations how to code, pay them to get real-world…
Immuta Inc. Gains Silicon Valley Investor, Valued at $1 billion
Immuta Inc., a newly minted unicorn tech startup in the Drive Capital LLC and Ohio Innovation Fund portfolios, has added a new publicly…
Replaced By A Room Full of CodeMonkeys: AI Use Cases for Software Engineers
Engineers may be grappling with the idea that AI can code, threatening low-level software developer jobs in the coming years, but AI is also…
App Helps You Track Your Impact Fighting Climate Change
Do you feel a bit helpless watching the climate change, or are you tired of wondering if each new solution is mere greenwashing or too vague…
Error Costs Google $100b: How Do We Get The Most Out of AI?
Microsoft introduced a disturbing chatbot of their own recently, Bing, which occasionally argues with users and threatens them. Google…
New Medical Tech Incubator Opens in Grand Rapids
Think Southeast Michigan has things wrapped up with regards to medtech startups? Think again. Michigan State has just opened a new incubator…
FutureGood Uses Futurism To Mentor Entrepreneurs
Dena Rapley came out of a career in higher education to work in outreach with Future Good, a startup that mentors entrepreneurs and business…
Forj raises $15 million and announces merger
Startup Forj has just raised a $15 million-dollar Series A funding round and announced a merger with Web Courseworks that will come together…
Guest Post: How To Find a Disability-Accommodating Job in Government Tech
This is a guest post by Cronicle contributor Dean Burgess of Excitepreneur.net. If you would like to write a guest post for Cronicle Tech…
Startup Lower disrupts lending with mortgage as a service
Columbus tech startup Lower has just unveiled a new service that could disrupt the lending industry: mortgage as a service. And it's not…
Check Out These Tech Jobs from Ann Arbor-Detroit Startups
Are you looking for a tech startup job in the Midwest? The middle of the country tends to be more conservative in hiring, so the region didn…
Midwest Tech Jobs: Connect with Startup Job Events
Looking for Midwest tech jobs? Companies are still hiring in Michigan, where startups and larger tech companies have not had to lay off the…
Stefanini Creates Real-Time Video Language Translation Tool with Microsoft
Voicero allows Microsoft Teams meetings to translate audio on live calls into 20 different languages to help teams collaborate across…
How to connect with Chicago's startup ecosystem
Desiree Vargas Wrigley runs TechRise and P33 Chicago, a startup community and pitch competition that supports women and BIPOC startup…