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This $250 Million Startup Tracks How Cancer Reacts To Treatment In Real Time
NVision founders Ilai Schwartz (left) and Sella Brosh O n a sunny Tuesday in late March at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Kayvan Keshari pulls up images of a patient's prostate tumor on his computer. This is no traditional…
Can this Silicon Valley startup make autonomous fleets profitable?
While a lot of folks embrace the futuristic vibe of autonomous cars, two veteran mobility entrepreneurs quickly spotted a looming chokepoint in their scaling efforts. The robotaxi industry desperately needs a faster, more streamlined way to service…
Sector Snapshot: Agtech Startups Face A Drier Funding Climate
In the midst of a move towards increased automation, the agriculture and farming sectors face several massive challenges: increasing yields to feed a growing population while decreasing their environmental footprint, all while maintaining farm…
Why a buzzy fund that advertised stakes in hot startups like Anthropic suddenly plunged
Trading in shares of Destiny Tech100, a closed-end fund that invests in private companies, highlighted the frenzy for pre-IPO companies in the current market and the potential transparency issues associated with trying to invest in them. The fund…
Australia Capital Gains Tax Reform Risks Startups, PC Chief Says
Australia's plan to scrap a capital gains tax discount risks “unintended consequences” for the startup sector, even as the budget delivered a credible package of productivity reforms, said Danielle Wood, chair of the Productivity…
Google adds Gemini-powered Dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups
Google announced Rambler, a new AI-powered voice dictation feature for Gboard — its widely used Android keyboard app — at its Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 event on Tuesday morning. The launch puts Google in direct competition with…
United Airlines Ventures Backs Startup Enhanced Radar
United Airlines Ventures (UAV), the investment arm of the U.S. carrier, is funding a little-known startup that says it delivers quicker, clearer, fuller insights for more efficient airport and airline operations. FLYING readers may know Enhanced…
Exclusive: Martha Stewart's new AI startup wants to manage your home before things break
Martha Stewart is entering the AI-agent wars through the mudroom. It all started at Easter brunch on her farm, where Stewart met Kyle Rush—her neighbor and an AI engineer—and realized he was describing what she says she'd imagined for…
Anthropic and OpenAI Warn Buyers: Unauthorized AI Startup Shares May Be Worthless
Anthropic and OpenAI both updated their stock transfer policies on Tuesday, and the message is the same: If you bought shares through an unauthorized channel, you may not actually own anything other than an expensive piece of paper. Anthropic's…
Innovative startup pioneers 3D printing with recycled glass - new 'binder jet' process combines powder with adhesive agent in layering technique
A startup called Vitriform3D has developed an innovative 3D printing process that makes use of the abundance of post-consumer glass. In collaboration with experts from Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility…
Chinese Robot Startup Releases Half-ton Mech Suit, Politely Asks People Not to Weaponize It
Unitree, the Chinese robotics company best known for humanoid robots doing flips, kung fu, and other viral stunts (Chinese state-sponsored spying potentially included), has now built something that looks like it escaped from an anime series or a…
Sovereign AI fund supports Hassabis startup, Isomorphic | Computer Weekly
Isomorphic Labs, a company founded by Demis Hassabis, which uses frontier artificial intelligence (AI) for drug design and development, has received investment from the UK government's Sovereign AI fund. Isomorphic's work builds on the breakthrough…
Agentic SOC startup Exaforce closes $125M round at reported $725M valuation
Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today announced that it has raised $125 million in new funding to scale up its AI-driven security operations platform and expand its real-time threat reasoning capabilities. Though not confirmed…
Celonis buys decision-intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to provide operational context for enterprise AI
Process mining software company Celonis SE said today it has snapped up the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-linked decision intelligence startup Ikigai Labs Inc. The startup's technology will power a new “context model”…
This media startup is trying to reach readers exhausted by political noise
Straight Arrow News was founded around a simple observation: a growing number of Americans feel alienated from modern news coverage. Depending on where they get their information, people can walk away with completely different understandings of the…
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