DeepCyte, a techbio company using AI and single-cell biology to identify and explain drug toxicity, has launched with $1.5 million in seed funding. Co-founded by Theodore Alexandrov, Ph.D., and Shawn Owens, the company is building tools that tell biopharma teams not just whether a drug causes harm, but which cells it affects and why. It

A client called me last year, frustrated. He’d spent three months trying to get an LLM to reliably extract invoice data from PDFs. His team had tried every prompt trick they could find online. Nothing worked consistently. Twenty minutes in, I realized the problem wasn’t his prompts. It was his mental model of how the

Something strange is happening in Washington. And no, it is not a new scandal. Government officials are in a frantic rush to deal with the unknown and unpredictable, not the economy, but artificially intelligent computer programs that might be getting a little too good. If you skim through today’s news, like the report on White

The open-source AI movement has never lacked for options. Mistral, Falcon, and a growing field of open-weight models have been available to developers for years. But when Meta threw its weight behind Llama, something shifted. A company with three billion users, vast compute resources, and the credibility of a tech giant was now building openly,

Next-generation AI assistants being developed in the Apple ecosystem and by chipmakers like Qualcomm, but early reports suggest they are being designed with limits in place. Tom’s Guide has described early versions of these assistants as capable of navigating apps, carrying out bookings, and managing tasks in services. For instance a private beta agentic system

To protect enterprise margins, business leaders must invest in robust AI governance to securely manage AI infrastructure. When evaluating enterprise software adoption, a recurring pattern dictates how technology matures across industries. As Rob Thomas, SVP and CCO at IBM, recently outlined, software typically graduates from a standalone product to a platform, and then from a

Chapter, a Medicare navigation platform built around AI-driven advice, has raised $100 million in a Series E funding round. Generation Investment Management led the round, with new investors Fifth Down Capital and 8VC joining alongside existing backers Stripes, XYZ Venture Capital, Addition, Narya Capital, Susa Ventures, and Maverick Ventures. The company says its valuation has

Haast, a New York-based startup that automates compliance review inside enterprise workflows, has closed a $12 million Series A. The round was led by Peak XV Partners, with DST Global Partners, Airtree, Aura Ventures, and Black Sheep Capital also participating. Total US funding now stands at $17.05 million. The money goes toward scaling the company’s

New brand reflects belief that technology can do more than just work, it can elevate anything SoftServe, a digital engineering and technology services company specializing in AI, data, and cloud solutions, today announced the launch of its new brand, “Technology Elevated,” reflecting SoftServe’s track record of decoding today’s complexities to reveal technology’s full potential. “Technology

New platform provides systems-of-systems infrastructure, enabling organizations to understand what’s happening inside their AI deployments Secure, turnkey infrastructure built for data sovereignty, keeping mid-size organizations’ data fully in their control while avoiding vendor lock-in Data Fusion Plane architecture incorporates AI applications and digital twins UltiSim Inc., an enterprise AI infrastructure and digital twin company, today