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Exclusive: XCures Lands $46M Series B To Clean Up Messy Medical Records With AI

XCures, a startup that uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, has closed a Innovius Capital-led $46 million Series B financing round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

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Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg

New details have emerged about Valor's latest fund, which last year announced it was raising an unspecified amount of capital.

Humanoid maker Agility Robotics to go public through SPAC merger

Agility Robotics will merge with Churchill Capital Corp XI, raising $620 million to advance Digit v5 and fulfill growing customer orders.

The Google Home Speaker sounds good and looks great — but it’s finicky

Right out of the box, the new Google Home Speaker passed a couple of important tests. Even with the volume at 100 percent and music blaring out of the speaker, it quickly ducked the audio and…

Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm, fenceless robot

Mantis said the robot allows for new flexibility in how to configure automation in complex, real-world environments.

The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI

AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or…

Why Ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer Says It’s A Great Time To Build A Hard Tech Company: ‘Infrastructure Is The Moat’

In this Crunchbase News Q&A, Gigascale Capital founder Mike Schroepfer discusses the coming power crunch, why infrastructure has become a strategic moat, and how breakthroughs in everything from…

Samsung opens ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex access after AI restrictions

Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work. According to OpenAI, the deployment covers…

Nous Research Adds /learn to Hermes Agent’s Skills System, Capturing Workflows as Slash Commands Without Hand-Writing SKILL.md

Nous Research has added /learn to the Hermes Agent Skills System. The command authors a standards-compliant SKILL.md from a local directory, a doc URL, a past conversation, or pasted notes. The live…

Anthropic drops ‘workplace AI agents’ directly inside Slack

Anthropic launched a beta version of its Claude Tag feature for Enterprise and Team tiers, shifting its chat model into shared Slack channels. Moving away from traditional isolated chat boxes, users…

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16 Best Generative AI Coding Tools in 2026 Compared: Features, and Best Fit

Generative AI has reshaped how software gets built. What began as line-by-line autocomplete now spans full application generation, multi-agent build pipelines, and natural-language interfaces to…

DFlash Speculative Decoding Drafts Whole Token Blocks in Parallel for Up to 15x Higher Throughput on NVIDIA Blackwell

UC San Diego's DFlash replaces autoregressive drafting with a lightweight block diffusion model for speculative decoding. It drafts whole token blocks in a single forward pass and conditions on…

How to invest when everything is moving too fast

TechCrunch's StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. They were as entertaining as they were illuminating.

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.

Deep dive into Arm’s physical AI and robotics strategies with Drew Henry

Arm EVP Drew Henry discusses the future of physical AI, robotics, and autonomous systems built for real-world constraints.

NVIDIA and AWS Collaborate to Bring AI to Production at Scale

Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow without multiplying operational…

Introducing the FFASR Leaderboard: Benchmarking ASR in the Real World

Is there an AI bubble? VCs on valuations and ARR inflation

This episode features a conversation recorded live at StrictlyVC LA in El Segundo between Connie Loizos; Chang Xu, partner at Basis Set Ventures; and Carter Reum, founder of M13. Together, they…

After betting the firm on Anthropic, Menlo Ventures raises victorious $3B fund

Menlo has created a solid rep for itself as an AI investor, all based on one gutsy $750 million move in 2024.

Datalab Releases lift: A 9B Open-Weights Vision Model That Extracts Structured JSON From PDFs Using Schemas

Datalab released lift, a 9B open-weights vision model that turns PDFs and images into schema-matching JSON. It uses schema-constrained decoding for valid structure and trained abstention to return…

Anthropic Backer Menlo Ventures Raises $3B In New Funds To Back AI Startups Across Stages

Venture firm Menlo Ventures has raised $3 billion across two new funds, the largest capital raise in its 50-year history, to invest in AI startups from seed through growth stage. The firm says the…