Atlanta Tech Village, the fourth-largest tech hub in the U.S., has opened its second location in Atlanta’s South Downtown. Spearheaded by David Cummings, Jon Birdsong, and other prominent innovators, ATV Sylvan is a uniquely distinctive space for up-and-coming builders and innovators. This week’s ribbon-cutting ceremony attracted founders, investors, city council members, and startup ecosystem builders. Named after the historic Sylvan Hotel, the revamped building offers flexible office options for entrepreneurs, from solopreneurs to fast-growing businesses. “The next generation of Atlanta success stories will be written here in these historic downtown buildings,” Mayor Dickens added during the opening ceremony. “A new generation of builders and dreamers [will find] the infrastructure, the resources, and the community they need to scale even faster.” The Making of ATV Sylvan: A Historic Edifice The project
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Chinese companies made their presence felt at the tech industry’s annual flagship event CES 2025 , in terms of the number of participants and their smart products ranging from robotics and smart glasses to electric vehicles (EVs) and home appliances. Chinese companies made up about a quarter of the 4,500-odd exhibitors at the annual tech trade show in Las Vegas. That is in line with the attendance in 2024 and up from 493 in 2023 when China’s lifting of Covid-19 restrictions came too late for many firms. Artificial intelligence (AI) was a dominant theme, as more practical applications were on display across almost all segments of consumer electronics. The market will only get bigger in 2025, according to the Consumer Technology Association, which organises the CES. Global sales of consumer
Narrativa is among a crop of startups seizing on the artificial intelligence boom to enthusiastically automate writing tasks that would once have fallen to humans. From penning regulatory documentation for Pfizer to zhuzhing up marketing copy for insurance and e-commerce firms and helping generate breaking news articles for The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles-based Narrativa boasts roughly 50 clients in various industries. But one of its core focus areas, comprising a quarter of its business, is a little more polarizing than the rest: gambling . Working with major industry players like 888 and Betway, Narrativa uses large language models to pump out everything from automated summaries of sports games to SEO-friendly reviews of online casino games and promotional social media posts. With no humans required, the 20-person company’s AI