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…

June 2023

TuSimple has started testing its self-driving truck tech in Japan

June 7, 2023

TuSimple, a publicly traded company developing self-driving trucks, is doing regular test runs on an expressway in Japan, marking its entrance into the island nation, the company said Tuesday. The testing on Japan’s Tomei Expressway, which connects Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, suggests TuSimple is doubling down on its Asia-focused business. Back in December, the company […]

TuSimple has started testing its self-driving truck tech in Japan by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Edtech giant Byju’s launches transformer models in AI push

June 7, 2023

Byju’s unveiled three transformer models intended to enhance the quality of its services as well as streamline learning and personalization experience for its students as the edtech giant places large bets on AI to transform many aspects of its business. Badri, a predictive AI model, is engineered to identify when learners may begin to falter […]

Edtech giant Byju’s launches transformer models in AI push by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

GetHarley, a skincare telehealth and consultation platform, raises $52M

June 6, 2023

GetHarley, a platform that connects consumers with skincare clinicians and related products, has raised $52 million in a round of funding led by existing investor Index Ventures. Founded out of London in 2019 by Charmaine Chow, GetHarley is a telehealth platform that gives anyone a direct channel to qualified skincare professionals, including dermatologists and plastic […]

GetHarley, a skincare telehealth and consultation platform, raises $52M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Meta’s former CTO has a new $50 million project: ocean-based carbon removal

June 6, 2023
A nonprofit formed by Mike Schroepfer, Meta’s former chief technology officer, is spinning out a new organization dedicated to accelerating research into ocean alkalinity enhancement—one potential means of leveraging the seas to suck up and store away even more carbon dioxide. Additional Ventures, cofounded by Schroepfer, and a group of other foundations have committed $50…