June 13, 2025

Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries 

Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…

May 2023

Modular app-building platform Buildier.ai raises $250 million Series D funding

May 23, 2023

It was only recently that we reported Buildier.ai had signed a strategic collaboration with and undisclosed investment from Microsoft. Builder’s “Natasha” AI will be shortly available to users of Teams. But it appears the startup is on a something of a roll. It’s now announced a $250 million Series D funding led by the Qatar […]

Modular app-building platform Buildier.ai raises $250 million Series D funding by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

The Shein-Reliance India alliance could offer inspiration for Chinese startups

May 23, 2023

Shein is partnering with Reliance to re-enter India, a strategy which, if proven viable, could set an example for startups grappling with the China backlash amid rising geopolitical tensions. The China-founded, Singapore-headquartered fast fashion giant is teaming up with Reliance Retail, the retail subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Reliance, The Wall Street Journal reported. A spokesperson […]

The Shein-Reliance India alliance could offer inspiration for Chinese startups by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Artifact news app introduces emoji reactions and flagging articles as clickbait

May 23, 2023

Instagram founders’ news app Arifact launched a new set of features Monday, allowing users to report clickbait articles, react with emojis and share articles as images. The clickbait flag feature now lets you mark an article as misleading through the three-dot menu in the article view or through a long press in the feed view. […]

Artifact news app introduces emoji reactions and flagging articles as clickbait by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch