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InstaLILY AI Raises $60 Million Series B, Overtone Secures $18 Million Seed Funding in Active AI Startup Market
AlleyWatch USA Overview InstaLILY AI, an AI products and infrastructure company deploying autonomous forward-deployed engineers, raised $60 million in Series B funding. Concurrently, Overtone, an AI and voice technology matchmaking compa... -
SambaNova Secures $1 Billion Series F at $11 Billion Valuation, Norm AI Becomes Unicorn with $120 Million for Regulatory Compliance
Crunchbase News USA Overview SambaNova, an AI infrastructure developer, raised a $1 billion Series F funding round, pushing its valuation to $11 billion. Simultaneously, Norm AI secured $120 million in Series C funding to expand its AI-p... -
Whatnot Acquires AI Recommendation Startup Shaped to Enhance Live Shopping Discovery and User Engagement
GeekWire USA Overview Live-shopping platform Whatnot has acquired Shaped, an AI startup specializing in real-time recommendation and search technology. Shaped's founder and CEO will lead a new applied AI research team at Whatnot to enhan... -
Insilico Medicine and Bora Pharmaceuticals Form Multi-Billion Dollar AI-Driven Drug Discovery and Manufacturing Alliance
News-Medical.Net USA Overview Insilico Medicine and Bora Pharmaceuticals have announced a strategic multi-target alliance with a potential value exceeding US$2.5 billion. This partnership integrates Insilico's Pharma.AI platform with Bor... -
Novartis Partners with Chai Discovery to Accelerate Antibody Drug Development using Advanced AI Model Chai-3
Scientist Live USA Overview Novartis has formed a strategic alliance with Chai Discovery to expedite antibody drug development across multiple therapeutic programs, leveraging Chai's advanced AI models, including Chai-3. This collaborati... -
U.S. GSA to Host 2026 Model Context Protocol Server and AI Agent Hackathon to Accelerate AI Adoption in Government Agencies
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) USA Overview The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) will host the '2026 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and AI Agent Hackathon' to accelerate AI adoption and improve service delivery... -
Medicare’s AI Approval Pilot Encounters Friction: Early Reports Detail Delays, Increased Paperwork
YouTube USA Overview The U.S. Medicare program is piloting an AI-based approval system for 13 medical procedures, including certain spinal injections and skin treatments, across six states. Intended to curb waste and fraud, initial repor... -
LLM Coordinated Bench: New Multi-Agent Coordination Benchmark Launched, Gemini 3.1 Pro Matches Top MARL Agents in Long-Term Tasks
r/MachineLearning (Reddit) Unknown Overview A new study introduces the 'LLM Coordinated Bench' benchmark to evaluate LLM agents' coordination capabilities in long-term, open-ended environments. Assessing 13 contemporary LLMs, most agents... -
Thinking Machines Lab Unveils Inkling, a New Open-Weight 975B MoE LLM, Achieving Superior Benchmark Performance Over GLM-5.2
Sebastian Raschka Germany Overview Thinking Machines Lab has announced Inkling, a new open-weight Large Language Model (LLM) with approximately one trillion parameters. This 975B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model demonstrates solid performa... -
Apple Secures China Approval for Alibaba-Powered AI Deployment: Siri and AI Services to Roll Out Across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS
Simply Wall St News China Overview Apple has obtained regulatory approval in China for Alibaba-powered AI services that will underpin its Apple Intelligence offerings. This approval enables Apple to deploy on-device generative AI feature...
