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Join us today for a live event at 8:30 AM PT, featuring the project leads for NotCo’s new AI to develop flavors and fragrances. Register and watch below or head to Streamyard. Can AI be used to create new flavors and fragrances? As I wrote last week, food-tech company NotCo has been asking itself this question for…
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We caught up with Raj Singh, head of Solo for Mozilla (and maker of the GPT Food Cam app) for an episode of The Spoon’s newest podcast, Spoon Full of AI. Singh, who we wrote about last month after he launched his calorie-counting app, talked with me about the importance of understanding how AI can…
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Grabango, a grocery-tech startup that raised over $93 million for its cashierless checkout technology, is shutting down, The Spoon has learned. The closure follows the company’s inability to secure the necessary funding to continue operations. In a statement to The Spoon, Grabango said: “Grabango announced today it has permanently discontinued operations. Although the company established…
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Food-tech company NotCo has developed a novel generative AI model, the Generative Aroma Transformer (GAT), capable of creating new flavor and fragrance formulations. The model, which the company presented on at the Food AI Summit last month, could be a potentially disruptive new tool that could impact a variety of consumer goods markets such as…
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This week, the a research partnership comprised of Watershed AC, Evogene, and Ben-Gurion University announced they have successfully produced the first gene-edited giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) using CRISPR technology. According to the announcement, this breakthrough represents the culmination of a year-long collaboration to enhance key crustacean traits, including growth rate, disease resistance, and environmental…
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Choice Market, the Denver-based convenience store chain known for blending a focus on fresh and high-quality food with a tech-forward approach to retail, has closed permanently. CEO Mike Fogarty announced via Linkedin that the company will be closing its doors permanently after months of attempting to navigate a reorganization process. “This is a tough post…
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Last month, smart kitchen startup Ome launched its second generation smart knob, a retrofit device that gives gas or electric stoves the ability to be turned off remotely. The new knob comes three years after the company fulfilled the delivery for its first-generation knob (under the company’s then-name, Inirv), which was the culmination of a…
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In the most recent episode of the Spoon Podcast, I caught up with food scientist Ali Bouzari to discuss his work and get his thoughts on new technologies that are helping to shape the future of food. I first met Bouzari when he spoke at the Culinary Institute of America a few years ago about…
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Serve Robotics Inc. and Wing Aviation announced a pilot program this week that will combine their delivery methods to extend the reach of restaurant deliveries across densely populated urban areas. According to the announcement, Serve’s robots will collect orders from restaurant curbsides and transport them to Wing’s AutoLoader hubs, where Wing’s drones will carry the…
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If you’ve ever tried to log your food intake with an app, you probably have realized the following: For these reasons, I have not used a food-logging app for more than a few weeks, but that may soon change with GPT Food Cam. What is GPT Food Cam? In a few words, it’s a free…
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Tired of boring black-glass cooktops? How about a cooktop that provides video cooking guides, color images, and more? That’s the idea behind SCHOTT’s new CERAN Luminoir TFT (thin film transistor) display. At last week’s IFA conference in Germany, SCHOTT announced a new TFT display technology that enabled a full-color touch screen to display high-fidelity video…
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This weekend at IFA, several big appliance brands used the show to tell the world that they are all in on AI, mainly through the integration of cameras into their ovens paired with software to enable personalized recipes and customized shopping lists. Siemens showed off the iQ 700 oven has a built-in camera that recognizes…
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