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Aitiologic raises €6.4M seed for AI-powered liquid biopsy in pregnancy riskAitiologic said it closed an oversubscribed €6.4 million (about $7.4 million) seed round co-led by Heal Capital and Ananda Impact Ventures. Funds go to large-scale validation and regulated development of Aitios®, a multi-modal cell-free DNA liquid-biopsy platform that combines genomic, epigenomic, and fragmentomic markers with AI-based interpretation — starting with first-trimester preeclampsia risk stratification from the same blood draw used for NIPT.
ICE joins Isometric Series A as round hits $50M for AI certificationIsometric said Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), operator of the New York Stock Exchange, joined its Series A. With ICE and other new investors the round now stands at $50 million, bringing total funding across seed and Series A to $75 million.
OpenAI Foundation launches Public Data for Health with $125M+ in grantsThe OpenAI Foundation said it launched Public Data for Health, a program to fund high-quality scientific datasets that researchers and AI tools can use across many diseases. Initial support totals more than $125 million across nonprofits and universities, including OpenADMET drug-property data, CTD Commons regulatory archives from failed programs, and UNC’s personalized cancer-vaccine data work.
Sanders and Bannon push AI curbs at Pro-Human AssemblyAt Washington’s Pro-Human Assembly, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both pressed for tougher AI guardrails. They agreed Silicon Valley needs restraints, then split on China — diplomacy and a superintelligence ban versus economic and tech quarantine.
Insilico launches AI Longevity Vaccines research for age-related diseaseInsilico Medicine said it launched Longevity Vaccines, a research initiative that uses generative AI and programmable RNA medicine to design single-administration, self-limiting in vivo cell therapies meant to eliminate early cellular drivers of age-related disease.
Levio and Cohere partner on sovereign AI for Canadian governmentsLevio and Cohere said they formed a strategic partnership to help Canadian governments and regulated enterprises move AI from pilots into production while keeping control of data, deployment, and language environments — including French.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live voice models with Extended ThinkingGoogle said Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are rolling out for developers, enterprises, and consumers — voice agents that keep talking while tools run in the background, with live visual grounding and 97-language support.
Zero raises $10.3M seed to build an AI successor to CRMZero said it raised a $10.3 million seed led by Primary Venture Partners and opened its AI customer-relationship product to the public after a private beta. Agents handle prospecting, record-keeping, and follow-ups while humans stay in control of customer outreach.
Sonus and Medtronic test AI wearable ultrasound for pregnancy risk screening in KenyaSonus Microsystems said it is collaborating with Medtronic to integrate its AI-powered wearable ultrasound patch with Medtronic acute-care monitoring tech. Gates Foundation–funded studies in Nairobi will evaluate the combo for screening pregnant women at risk of early-onset preeclampsia.
Factory raises $200M at a $5B valuation for enterprise coding agentsFactory said it raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation to scale self-improving software development for enterprises. The round brings total funding to over $400 million.
OpenEvidence partners with Penn Medicine on clinical AI — including BotswanaOpenEvidence and Penn Medicine announced a partnership to bring OpenEvidence’s AI clinical decision support to more than 10,000 clinicians across Penn’s seven-hospital U.S. system, and to design tools with the Botswana-UPenn Partnership for care in lower-resource settings.
Liquid Compute exits stealth with $15M to build a regulated AI compute exchangeLiquid Compute said it emerged from stealth with $15 million in seed funding to build regulated venues for trading AI infrastructure — a physical compute marketplace plus pending CFTC applications for cash-settled markets tied to those prices. FirstMark and Chemistry co-led the round.
MICSI wins FDA clearance for MR-guided PET brain imaging softwareMicrostructure Imaging said it received FDA 510(k) clearance for MICSI-PET, software that uses MRI to guide PET image enhancement while keeping quantitative PET data, and automatically reports amyloid Centiloid and tau CenTauR measures used in neurological imaging.
Kairon Health raises $5M for AI execution in value-based careKairon Health said it raised $5 million led by Flare Capital Partners, with Tau Ventures and existing investors Lightbank, General Advance, and Pave Health Ventures participating. The company bills itself as an AI-native execution layer for value-based care — software that turns claims, clinical, and operational data into day-to-day work that closes care gaps, not just dashboards that flag them.
Rockwell joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing for industrial cyber defenseRockwell Automation said it joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, a defensive cybersecurity initiative that gives approved organizations controlled access to Claude Mythos 5. Rockwell’s security teams say they will use the access to speed discovery, validation, prioritization, and remediation of vulnerabilities in industrial software and connected systems manufacturers rely on.
Creatify Labs launches Boreal, a cent-per-second realtime video modelCreatify Labs said it launched Boreal, an AI video model for text-to-video and image-to-video billed at about one cent per second of finished video and aimed at realtime speed — roughly a five-second clip in about five seconds. The company says blind human reviews and ad-quality checks put Boreal near top closed models advertisers use today, at far lower cost and about 40 times the speed in its benchmarks.
Crusoe and Perplexity ink a multi-year deal for train-to-serve AI cloudCrusoe said Perplexity will run its full model lifecycle on Crusoe Cloud — training frontier models on dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters with InfiniBand, then serving them in production through Crusoe Managed Inference. Crusoe will also roll Perplexity Enterprise Pro and Max to its 1,800 employees.
Speaker Johnson says no AI moratorium — China edge + self-regulationHouse Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters the U.S. cannot pause AI development without handing an edge to China, argued companies can self-regulate on pace, said he and President Trump are summoning major AI executives to the White House within the next week, and rejected a transnational AI agency while still calling for independent auditors and transparency.
Google.org picks 15 teams for a $30M AI challenge aimed at government servicesGoogle.org announced the 15 organizations selected for its $30 million Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The winners — academic labs, nonprofits, and social enterprises — get funding and hands-on help from Google engineers to build open-source AI tools for public services such as emergency response, transit, health access, and clearer government paperwork.
Profound raises $180M Series D at $1.8B to build an AI marketing platformProfound said it raised $180 million in Series D funding at a $1.8 billion valuation, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Saga Ventures, Evantic, and South Park Commons. The New York AI marketing company is rolling out Aim (AI Marketer) so teams work from shared brand context instead of one-off chat prompts.