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…

Harvey, which uses AI to answer legal questions, lands cash from OpenAI

November 23, 2022

Harvey, a startup building what it describes as a “copilot for lawyers,” today emerged from stealth with $5 million in funding led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, the tranche through which OpenAI and its partners are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. Also participating in the round was Jeff Dean, the lead of […]

Harvey, which uses AI to answer legal questions, lands cash from OpenAI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M to train its sights on growth in Africa

November 23, 2022

Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature phones. Today, one of the players in that space, the feature phone operating system startup KaiOS, is getting a small financial injection that both speaks […]

KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M to train its sights on growth in Africa by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

The Chinese government’s problematic quest to judge online comments

November 23, 2022
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. This morning, I published an explainer on China’s social credit system. The government released a draft law on November 14 that will eventually serve as the top-level guidance on how the country builds the system. …

Delhivery hits all-time low, market cap falls below 2021 private valuation

November 23, 2022

Shares of Delhivery hit an all-time low of 317 Indian rupees ($3.88) Wednesday, cutting its market cap to $2.8 billion, falling below the valuation at which it raised capital from private investors in 2021, as the Indian logistics firm grapples with the aftermath of a bulk deal sale and muted growth report. Shares of the […]

Delhivery hits all-time low, market cap falls below 2021 private valuation by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

More headaches for Apple in China as protests erupt at Foxconn

November 23, 2022

Two weeks after Apple warned of production delays in China amid heightened COVID-19 restrictions, the giant is facing more challenges as worker protests broke out at its largest manufacturing partner Foxconn. Hundreds of workers at the world’s largest iPhone plant in central China clashed with the police, according to videos shared over the last few […]

More headaches for Apple in China as protests erupt at Foxconn by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Tanzania’s YC alum Ramani raises $32M to digitize CPG supply chains, lend resellers

November 23, 2022

Ramani, a Tanzanian startup focused on consumer-packaged goods (CPG) supply chains, plans to introduce new financial services as it expands its operations in the East African country after raising $32 million in Series A debt-equity funding. The latest round, which follows an undisclosed seed funding round last year, was led by Flexcap Ventures, and Jared […]

Tanzania’s YC alum Ramani raises $32M to digitize CPG supply chains, lend resellers by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

Sequoia India’s Surge backs healthtech startup RedBrick AI in $4.6M funding

November 23, 2022

Healthtech startup RedBrick AI has raised $4.6 million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge as it plans to expand the market for its medical imagery annotations solution. Artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous in clinical diagnosis. But researchers need much of their initial time preparing data for training AI systems. […]

Sequoia India’s Surge backs healthtech startup RedBrick AI in $4.6M funding by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch