AccessGrid raises $4.4M to help turn phones into key fobs; also, Mem0 raises $24M to build the memory layer for AI apps

Oxford spinout RADiCAIT uses AI to make diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible

Israeli intelligence vets raise $20M to track developer buying signals; plus, Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C

India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest

Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads; also, Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen

Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business, also, Wonder raised $12M to bring AI content to Hollywood

Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race

Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs

a16z-backed Codi launches AI agent office manager

Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA

Oura launches redesigned app and 'Cumulative Stress' feature

A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you

How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems; plus, Deel hits $17.3B valuation after raising $300M from big-name VCs

General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips, also, Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO

Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices; also, Eightfold raised $35M for an AI digital twin startup

Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in wildfire defense

FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster

Sheryl Sandberg-backed Flint wants to use AI to build and update websites, and Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab

India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries