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Oxford spinout RADiCAIT uses AI to make diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible Oct 28, 2025

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“What we really do is we took the most constrained, complex, and costly medical imaging solution in radiology, and we supplanted it with what is the most accessible, simple and affordable, which is CT,” Sean Walsh, RADiCAIT’s CEO told TechCrunch.

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Israeli intelligence vets raise $20M to track developer buying signals; plus, Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C Oct 27, 2025

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Onfire, a vertical AI platform for IT revenue teams, is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding, including a $14 million Series A co-led by Grove Ventures and TLV Partners.

Also, Mercor, which connects AI labs with domain experts for training their foundational AI models, is close to raising $350 million at a $10 billion valuation.

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India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest Oct 27, 2025

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BlaBlaCar is seeing rapid growth in India, with 20 million passengers expected this year — up 50% from last year.

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Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads; also, Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen Oct 24, 2025

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Tensormesh uses an expanded form of KV Caching to make inference loads as much as ten times more efficient.

Plus, Palantir said on Thursday it had struck a partnership with Lumen Technologies that will see the telecommunications company using the data management company's AI software to build capabilities to support enterprise AI services.

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Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business, also, Wonder raised $12M to bring AI content to Hollywood Oct 23, 2025

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The round was led by Eclipse and saw participation from Nvidia's venture capital arm, NVentures.

Also, Wonder will use the fresh funds to double its engineering team and accelerate its push into IP ownership and original content production.

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Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race Oct 23, 2025

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Cohere's former VP of AI research, Sara Hooker, is launching a new startup to build AI models that can adapt to their environment.

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Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs Oct 22, 2025

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After endless Silicon Valley takes on how generative AI would radically change scientific discovery, the founders decided that the pieces were finally in place to make this a reality. Or at least to found a startup that attempted it.

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a16z-backed Codi launches AI agent office manager Oct 22, 2025

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Codi was founded in 2018, in a pre-pandemic world, with a mission to help companies find flexible office spaces.

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Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA Oct 21, 2025

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Abu-Ghazaleh said his two-month-old company promises to cut inefficiencies in high-stakes sectors like aviation, logistics, and oil and gas through an AI-native operating system for decision-making.

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Oura launches redesigned app and 'Cumulative Stress' feature Oct 21, 2025

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The redesigned Oura app introduces more personalization with three main tabs.

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