Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Fertility startup Inito wants to use AI-designed antibodies to expand at-home health tests | TechCrunch
Inito has raised $29 million in new funding to invest in and develop AI-engineered antibodies that will help it offer new types of tests and improv...
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Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests
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Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/medra-raises-52-million-to-speed-drug-discovery-with-ai-robots
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Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M
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The EU opens investigations into Temu and airport scanner maker Nuctech to assess whether they unfairly penetrated the EU market thanks to Beijing subsidies (Francesca Micheletti/Politico)
EU investigates China’s Nuctech, Temu for unfair foreign subsidies – POLITICO
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The EU opens investigations into Temu and airport scanner maker Nuctech to assess whether they unfairly penetrated the EU market thanks to Beijing subsidies
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Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers | TechCrunch
Runware lets developers integrate real-time image generation in their apps, with an affordable pricing model.
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Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M
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Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
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Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage | TechCrunch
Port offers a proprietary alternative to Spotify's popular devtool catalog Backstage, but with a valuable addition β€” it can be used to manag...
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Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify
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Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Harness hits $5.5B valuation with $240M raise to automate AI's 'after-code' gap | TechCrunch
Goldman Sachs has led Harness's Series E round, with participation from IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures.
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Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation
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OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-murder-suicide-greenwich-openai-fd14fac2?st=eupyAd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son, who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT
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An Ai2 research scientist argues that AGI, as commonly conceived, will not emerge because it ignores, among other things, the physical realities of computation (Tim Dettmers)
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Why AGI Will Not Happen — Tim Dettmers
If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp...
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An Ai2 research scientist says AGI may never emerge because such a concept ignores the physical realities and limits of computation, such as energy constraints
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Q&A with investor Gavin Baker of Atreides Management on the economics of AI, data centers in space, mistakes SaaS companies are making in adopting AI, and more (Patrick O'Shaughnessy/Invest Like The Best on YouTube)
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Q&A with investor Gavin Baker of Atreides Management on the economics of AI, data centers in space, mistakes SaaS companies are making in adopting AI, and more
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Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Unacademy's founder says startup is now worth less than $500M, confirms M&A talks | TechCrunch
Unacademy's valuation has dropped by over 85% from its pandemic-era peak price tag of $3.5 billion, its founder said.
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Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup
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